Programme Manager

Babcock Canada Inc.; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm is seeking a Programme Manager in Belfast. The ideal candidate will provide strategic oversight in delivering rail projects. Responsibilities include leading project teams, ensuring compliance, and managing client relationships. Candidates must have extensive managerial experience in rail projects and relevant qualifications. This full-time role offers competitive compensation and benefits, along with hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading options

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary project management team.
• Oversee programme-level planning, including resource allocation.
• Maintain strong client relationships and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with SQE, legal, and accreditation requirements.
• Provide programme-level reporting across commercial and financial performance.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Risk Management

Client Relationship Management

Operational Safety

Education

Chartered member of a relevant professional body

Degree-level education

Job description

Programme Manager

Location: Belfast, County Antrim – Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full Time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70614

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

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

Qualifications

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

• 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‑day special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – 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

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.

Equal opportunities

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.