Senior Project Manager

We Served; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Manager at Ashton House, near Bristol.

The Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering complex engineering projects that sit at the heart of UK defence and submarine capability. This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Mission Systems business, supporting the Submarine Programme, the next generation of Royal Navy submarines planned to enter service in the late 2030s. You’ll drive growth, influence strategy, and lead a small project team responsible for delivering critical end‑to‑end project outcomes. It’s a role that brings real purpose: contributing to national security while accelerating your own professional development in a dynamic, high‑profile environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Provide operational and strategic leadership to ensure successful delivery of project commitments.
• Manage complex engineering projects, ensuring teams understand and meet requirements across cost, schedule, and quality.
• Oversee full lifecycle delivery, including requirements capture, scoping, pricing, commercial solutions, and proposal development.
• Drive effective risk management, minimising exposure and ensuring robust governance.
• Apply structured change management to balance customer flexibility with sound commercial agreements

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager

• Significant experience in advanced project management within a relevant technical or engineering environment.
• Proven leadership experience, motivating and directing multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects with varied demands, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Strong financial management capability to maintain project profitability.
• Experience delivering solutions through internal resource teams and external supply chains.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager

Essential:

• APM PMQ or equivalent professional project management qualification.

Preferred:

• Chartered status or equivalent accreditation.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is 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. 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: 26/02/2026

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