Location: Ashchurch, Goucestershire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73056
Job Title: Project Manager
Overview
Deliver engineering projects that protect the UK and shape the future. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Project Manager at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, you will lead medium‑to‑high‑complexity engineering projects that support major UK Defence and Security contracts.
Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of engineering projects, ensuring delivery to agreed cost, schedule and quality targets
- Lead end‑to‑end project delivery, from scoping and solution design through to handover
- Produce pricing models, gate review inputs and proposal documentation
- Manage project risks and apply lessons learned to drive continuous improvement
- Collaborate with internal teams, customers and supply chain partners to deliver complex solutions
Essential Experience
- Experience delivering engineering or technical projects using recognised project management methodologies
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines
- Strong financial and commercial awareness, including cost and margin control
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and external suppliers
- Background within defence, security or similarly regulated environments
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Recognised project management qualification or membership (e.g., APM, PRINCE2 or PMI), or willingness to obtain
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Details on clearance levels and trade control restrictions are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels (www.gov.uk).
Benefits
- 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 receive 10‑day special paid leave
- Holiday trading option for buying or selling annual leave
- Be Kind Day – paid leave for volunteering
- Flexible working arrangements
- Dynamic working environment within a trusted engineering organisation
Closing date: 05/05/2026
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Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73056
Job Title: Project Manager
Overview
Deliver engineering projects that protect the UK and shape the future. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Project Manager at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, you will lead medium‑to‑high‑complexity engineering projects that support major UK Defence and Security contracts.
Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of engineering projects, ensuring delivery to agreed cost, schedule and quality targets
- Lead end‑to‑end project delivery, from scoping and solution design through to handover
- Produce pricing models, gate review inputs and proposal documentation
- Manage project risks and apply lessons learned to drive continuous improvement
- Collaborate with internal teams, customers and supply chain partners to deliver complex solutions
Essential Experience
- Experience delivering engineering or technical projects using recognised project management methodologies
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines
- Strong financial and commercial awareness, including cost and margin control
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams and external suppliers
- Background within defence, security or similarly regulated environments
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Recognised project management qualification or membership (e.g., APM, PRINCE2 or PMI), or willingness to obtain
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Details on clearance levels and trade control restrictions are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels (www.gov.uk).
Benefits
- 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 receive 10‑day special paid leave
- Holiday trading option for buying or selling annual leave
- Be Kind Day – paid leave for volunteering
- Flexible working arrangements
- Dynamic working environment within a trusted engineering organisation
Closing date: 05/05/2026
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