Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68077
Lead the Future of Nuclear Infrastructure
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.
The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of delivering world-class nuclear facilities that support the UK’s submarine and equipment programmes. This is a unique opportunity to lead transformational projects that directly contribute to national defence and security. You’ll manage complex programmes across safety, scope, schedule, finance, risk, and quality, making a real impact on society while advancing your career in one of the most dynamic and noble sectors.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead and deliver complex infrastructure projects by managing teams, engaging stakeholders, overseeing physical works and ensuring safety and governance throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Leading and developing a team of Project Engineers and Assistant Project Managers
- Managing customer interfaces and stakeholder relationships, including risk identification and mitigation
- Planning and delivering the full project lifecycle, including performance reporting and issue escalation
- Overseeing physical works and ensuring high safety standards throughout delivery
- Establishing governance frameworks with clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1-2 days in the office/onsite and 4-5 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Project Manager
- Proven experience in project management techniques and delivery
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to present complex information in clear, accessible formats
- Experience managing resources and mentoring teams
- Understanding of tender assessment and supply chain management
Qualifications for the Project Manager
Essential:
- NVQ Level 4 in an engineering discipline or equivalent business qualification (e.g. BTEC HNC in management)
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent
Preferred:
- Experience delivering projects within nuclear or highly regulated environments
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: 29/05/2026
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