Engineering Project Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
The role
As an Engineering Project Manager, you’ll lead critical engineering projects that ensure the Royal Navy’s submarine platforms remain safe, available, and capable throughout their life extension and commission periods. This is a varied and impactful role where you’ll manage complex engineering data, develop innovative solutions and influence design authority decisions to make maintenance quicker and more efficient.
Day-to-day, you’ll deliver safe, available and capable submarine platforms throughout defined life extension and commission extension periods in support of the overall submarine programme for the Royal Navy.
- Deliver allocated projects within time, cost and quality constraints.
- Lead and coordinate department resources within your project scope.
- Liaise with internal and external engineering teams to achieve project outcomes.
- Apply and develop engineering management arrangements.
- Review outputs and present findings to customers.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Engineering Project Manager
- Previous Defence/Submarine experience is not a requirement.
- Extensive knowledge of engineering systems and in-service support.
- Proven success in developing and applying engineering management arrangements.
- Experience managing engineering outputs and technical teams.
- Strong communication skills across all stakeholder levels.
- Excellent time management and proactive approach to meeting deadlines.
Qualifications for the Engineering Project Manager
- Degree in engineering or technology, or equivalent technical qualification (HND/HNC, vocational engineering qualification, or relevant apprenticeship).
- Project Fundamentals Qualification such as APM, Acoste, or RICS or willing to undertake training provided by Babcock.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
Closing date: 07/07/2026
