Programme Manager

We Served; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in Belfast is seeking a Programme Manager to provide strategic oversight and operational discipline for complex rail frameworks. This full-time senior position offers hybrid working arrangements and involves leading a project management team, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, and fostering client relationships. The ideal candidate has extensive senior experience in rail project delivery and relevant professional qualifications, with a focus on safety and operational excellence. A competitive salary and generous benefits are included.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

‘Be Kind Day’ volunteering leave

Employee assistance programme for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Extensive experience at a senior level within rail project delivery.
• Strong knowledge of safety and operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary project management team.
• Oversee programme-level planning and resource allocation.
• Maintain strong client relationships for continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with legal and accreditation requirements.
• Provide programme-level reporting on performance.

Skills

Senior managerial experience in rail project delivery

Strong operational and safety knowledge

Education

Degree-level education or relevant professional membership (e.g., APM chartered status)

Job description

Job Title: Programme Manager

Location: Belfast, County Antrim + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Make a difference every day

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Programme Manager at our Belfast site.

The role

As a Programme Manager, you’ll provide leadership, strategic oversight, and operational discipline to deliver complex rail frameworks and projects safely, efficiently, and profitably. This is a senior leadership role where your decisions will directly protect revenue, enhance margins, and strengthen Babcock’s reputation as a trusted delivery partner. You’ll have the opportunity to shape performance, drive innovation, and make a tangible impact on national infrastructure.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary project management team to deliver frameworks and contracts safely and efficiently
• Oversee programme‑level planning, including resource allocation, risk management, and change control
• Maintain strong client relationships and drive continuous improvement
• Ensure compliance with all SQE, legal, and accreditation requirements
• Provide programme‑level reporting across commercial, financial, and delivery performance

This role is full time working 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home. Occasional travel to other Babcock and customer sites may be required.

Essential experience of the Programme Manager

• Extensive managerial experience at a senior level within a rail project delivery environment within a rail project delivery environment.
• Strong knowledge of processes, operational and associated safety matters

Qualifications for the Programme Manager

Member of a relevant professional body (e.g., Association for Project Management) with chartered status and/or degree‑level education.

Security Clearance

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 pals 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.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 ‘Reason hashlib 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: 27/01/2026