Job Title: Risk Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £44,600 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73501
Shape confident decisions on projects that protect the Nation
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 Risk Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Risk Manager, you’ll lead risk and opportunity management across business winning and project delivery phases, working primarily on complex, multi‑disciplined programmes. You’ll establish, embed and maintain robust risk management arrangements that support effective planning, delivery and governance.
Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with Project Managers, commercial and engineering teams, providing insight that helps balance risk, cost, schedule and opportunity. Your work will directly support successful delivery, strengthen governance and enhance decision‑making across the project lifecycle, while building your professional profile within a highly regarded project controls community.
- Leading risk and opportunity management, including modelling, across bids and live projects
- Developing and maintaining risk and opportunity management plans and governance arrangements
- Establishing and managing risk and opportunity registers, ensuring mitigation actions are tracked
- Coordinating regular risk reviews, producing reports and insights for senior stakeholders
- Providing schedule and cost risk analysis, supporting informed decision‑making
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Risk Manager
- Extensive experience in a specialist risk and opportunity management role
- Proven ability to support Project Managers on complex, multi‑disciplined projects
- Strong experience developing and embedding risk management processes and governance
- Confidence presenting risk insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Experience delivering quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis
Qualifications for the Risk Manager
- Degree‑level qualification in engineering, project management, construction management, or a related discipline
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 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: 25/05/2026
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