Job Title: Project Manager - Nuclear
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £57,300 – £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72919
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 - Nuclear at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Project Manager - Nuclear, you’ll take a leadership role within our Naval Nuclear business, responsible for delivering complex, safety‑critical engineering projects that support the UK’s submarine fleet. You’ll build, lead and develop integrated project delivery teams, bringing people together across disciplines to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and to the highest standards.
Day-to-day, you’ll Act as key interface between Babcock, our customers and delivery partners, you’ll shape project direction, manage risk and provide confident leadership in a highly regulated environment.
- Leading and managing integrated project teams to deliver nuclear engineering projects successfully.
- Planning, monitoring and controlling project scope, schedule, cost, risk and change.
- Owning customer and stakeholder relationships, acting as the primary point of contact.
- Managing resources, finances and subcontractors to achieve project objectives.
- Providing clear leadership, coaching and escalation support to ensure team performance and delivery assurance.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 4 days in the office/onsite.
Essential experience of the Project Manager - Nuclear
- Demonstrable experience delivering complex engineering or infrastructure projects within regulated environments.
- Strong capability across core project management disciplines, including planning, risk, cost and change control.
- Proven experience leading multi‑disciplinary teams within a matrix organisation.
- Effective stakeholder management skills, including engagement with customers and senior leaders.
- Ability to coach, motivate and develop teams to achieve high performance.
Qualifications for the Project Manager - Nuclear
- Degree‑level qualification.
- Commercial or Financial Management Qualification.
- APM Project Management Qualification.
- APM Chartered Project Professional status.
- APM Project Risk Management qualification.
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 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. 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
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: 28/04/2026
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