At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex projects that enhance the UK's defence capability from start to finish.
- Company: Join a leading defence company committed to innovation and teamwork.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension scheme, health support, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a commitment to inclusivity and diversity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in defence while developing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management within engineering or defence; APM PMQ preferred.
Location: Telford, Shropshire + Travel to other sites
Compensation: From £63,440.04 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you'll play a critical role in delivering complex projects that support the UK's defence capability. Working across a diverse portfolio, you'll lead projects through their full lifecycle, ensuring they are delivered safely, on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Lead complex projects through all phases of the project lifecycle from initiation through to close-out.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, safety and risk to achieve agreed objectives.
- Build strong relationships with customers, project teams and key stakeholders to support successful delivery.
- Establish effective governance arrangements, roles, responsibilities and project controls.
- Develop and mentor project professionals while driving continuous improvement across project delivery activities.
The role is based onsite at Donnington, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week. Weekly travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected, including visits to Devonport, Plymouth, Warminster and Field Army locations as required.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager:
- Extensive recent experience delivering projects within a complex engineering, defence, infrastructure or comparable environment.
- Proven experience managing projects through the full lifecycle from bid phase to project completion.
- Strong understanding of project governance, performance reporting and project controls.
- Experience managing customer relationships, stakeholder engagement and project risks.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:
- APM Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ), or willingness to attain within 12 months.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or a related discipline is desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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.
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 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.
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.
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