Project Manager

We Served; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense organization in Plymouth is seeking a Project Manager to lead complex projects with a multidisciplinary team. The role offers hybrid working arrangements, requiring 35 hours a week split between office and home. Candidates must have a strong background in project management and the ability to engage with various stakeholders. Though leadership experience is vital, the successful candidate will also be expected to manage budgets and risks effectively as part of high-stakes projects in a defense environment. Further, a pivotal requirement includes the ability to obtain necessary security clearance.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Volunteer paid leave

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in schedule planning and management.
• Strong background in risk, opportunity and issue management.
• Practical knowledge of budgeting, cost control and financial oversight.
• Proven leadership capability with experience managing and developing teams.
• Experience engaging, influencing and managing stakeholders and communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead a defined project scope, setting direction and deploying resources.
• Manage and develop people across direct and matrix structures.
• Oversee governance, processes and reporting.
• Control financial and operational resources aligned with cost, time and quality.
• Lead risk and issue management activities.

Skills

Schedule planning and management

Risk, opportunity and issue management

Budgeting and cost control

Team management and development

Stakeholder engagement

Education

APM Project Management Qualification or a degree in a STEM or business discipline

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £54,019 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70098

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 Project Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of a nationally significant programme spanning more than 20 years, delivering activities that haven’t been undertaken in the UK for decades and supporting one of the most specialised stages of the submarine lifecycle.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead a defined scope of work, managing multidisciplinary teams and collaborating closely with engineering, operations, planning, finance, subcontractors and regulators. Your work will shape the successful delivery of complex projects and provide outstanding career development in a major defence environment.

• Lead a defined project scope, setting direction, deploying resources and driving collaboration to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Manage and develop people across direct, dotted‑line and matrix structures, driving high performance and cohesion.
• Oversee governance, processes and reporting, ensuring clear visibility of progress, priorities and compliance.
• Control financial, operational and subcontractor resources, ensuring delivery aligns with agreed cost, time and quality.
• Lead risk and issue management activities, identifying and mitigating threats and opportunities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Demonstrated experience in schedule planning and management.
• Strong background in risk, opportunity and issue management.
• Practical knowledge of budgeting, cost control and financial oversight.
• Proven leadership capability with experience managing and developing teams.
• Experience engaging, influencing and managing stakeholders and communications.

Qualifications for the Project Manager

• APM Project Management Qualification or a degree in a STEM or business discipline.

• APM Project Risk Management Level 2 - Desirable
• Project Planning and Controls Foundation - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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 [e-mail] 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: 18/02/2026

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