Senior Project Manager

Job Title:             Senior Project Manager
Location:             Corsham, Wiltshire  + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF66823

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 Senior Project Manager - Network and IT Services at our Corsham site.

The role
As a Senior Project Manager - Networks and IT Services, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Leading the transformation of a mission-critical programme supporting UK defence capabilities through the modernisation of the Skynet satellite communications system.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver complex system upgrades involving IT networks, hosting environments, and managed services, applying structured programme management and Agile leadership.


• Develop and maintain integrated project plans with robust controls to meet milestones and budgets.


• Manage senior stakeholders across Babcock, MoD, and commercial partners.


• Oversee resource planning and commercial delivery targets.


• Support vendor engagement and performance management, including the development and transition to fixed-cost contracts and Statements of Work.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager

• Proven track record of delivering complex IT infrastructure and network programmes using Agile or Waterfall.


• Strong stakeholder engagement and governance reporting.


• Experience managing multi-million-pound budgets and cross-functional teams.


• Skilled in risk, issue, and dependency management.


• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), hosting environments, and service management principles.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant technical or management discipline.


• Recognised project management qualifications (ideally APM accredited).

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 [email protected] 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: 25/02/2026

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