Programme Manager

Location: Bristol, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead Delivery within One of The UK's Most Significant Defence Programmes

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Programme Manager - Delivery at our Ashton house, Bristol site.

The Role

As a Programme Manager - Delivery, you'll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll take a leading role within one of the most high-profile and complex engineering programmes in the UK. Working within our Marine business, you'll be responsible for driving successful delivery across a major heavy engineering contract, ensuring critical customer requirements, operational objectives and financial targets are achieved. Reporting to the Programme Director, you'll lead a team of Senior Project Managers and multidisciplinary project teams responsible for the delivery of complex engineering solutions. This is a unique opportunity to influence a programme valued at approximately £500 million in revenue while working closely with customers and senior stakeholders on projects that directly support national security.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Lead and inspire a team of Senior Project Managers and project teams to achieve programme delivery objectives.
• Drive programme performance across scope, cost, revenue, margin and cash flow targets.
• Manage customer relationships and engage regularly with senior commercial stakeholders.
• Oversee the successful delivery of complex engineering and manufacturing activities in line with contractual commitments.
• Champion high performance, continuous improvement and effective risk and opportunity management across the programme.

This is a full-time role based at Ashton House, Bristol, working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with onsite attendance expected 2 to 3 days per week to collaborate with colleagues, customers and production teams.

Essential experience of the Programme Manager - Delivery:

• Extensive experience managing large, complex heavy engineering programmes from design through to manufacture and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and project controls practices.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing project delivery teams.
• Demonstrable experience delivering customer contracts within complex engineering, manufacturing, energy, aerospace or defence environments.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at senior leadership and customer level.

Qualifications for the Programme Manager - Delivery:

Essential:

• Degree qualification or equivalent professional experience.
• Recognised project management qualification such as APM Project Management Qualification, Chartered Project Professional, or equivalent.

Desirable:

• Additional programme management, leadership or commercial management qualifications.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

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.
• '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.

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 21/08/2026