Job Title: Production Project Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72757
Shape the future of defence engineering and help deliver world‑leading capability
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Production Project Manager at our Ashton House site, near Ashton, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Production Project Manager, you’ll join our Mission Systems business, supporting one of the most strategically important defence programmes in the UK the delivery of a new class of submarine. It’s a career-defining opportunity to work at the forefront of national security, where engineering, production, and innovation intersect.
In this role, you’ll drive the safe, timely and cost‑effective delivery of complex equipment, contributing directly to a programme critical to the Royal Navy and the nation. You’ll grow your expertise in production, project delivery and stakeholder management, all while shaping your personal and professional development in an inspiring environment that champions curiosity, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Deliver allocated equipment packages safely, on time, within budget and to quality standards.
- Lead best‑practice project controls across scheduling, cost, risk and procurement.
- Collaborate with engineers, production teams and wider stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum.
- Engage confidently with internal and external partners to support project success.
- Champion continuous improvement and help strengthen project delivery processes.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with minimum 4 days onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Production Project Manager
- Strong background in production, manufacturing, engineering or similar.
- Experience managing or supporting delivery within a project environment.
- Solid understanding of project controls and decision‑support tools.
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
- Strong computer literacy; experience with eQMS systems desirable.
Qualifications for the Production Project Manager
- Project management training or certification (e.g., APM PFQ).
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. 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 – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one day’s paid leave each year for volunteering
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
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 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.
Closing date: 16/04/2026
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