Senior Project Manager

Job Title:                     Senior Project Manager

Location:                     Telford, Shropshire + Travel to other sites

Compensation:           From £63,440.04 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74845

Lead complex programmes that strengthen defence capability and make a real difference

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Manager at Donnington, near Telford, Shropshire, with frequent travel required to other Babcock and customer sites.

The role

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll play a critical role in delivering complex projects that support the UK's defence capability. Working across a diverse portfolio, you'll lead projects through their full lifecycle, ensuring they are delivered safely, on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead complex projects through all phases of the project lifecycle from initiation through to close-out.


• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, safety and risk to achieve agreed objectives.


• Build strong relationships with customers, project teams and key stakeholders to support successful delivery.


• Establish effective governance arrangements, roles, responsibilities and project controls.


• Develop and mentor project professionals while driving continuous improvement across project delivery activities.

The role is based onsite at Donnington, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week. Weekly travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected, including visits to Devonport, Plymouth, Warminster and Field Army locations as required.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager:

• Extensive recent experience delivering projects within a complex engineering, defence, infrastructure or comparable environment.


• Proven experience managing projects through the full lifecycle from bid phase to project completion.


• Strong understanding of project governance, performance reporting and project controls.


• Experience managing customer relationships, stakeholder engagement and project risks.


• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver complex projects with multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:

• APM Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ), or willingness to attain within 12 months.


• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or a related discipline is desirable.

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 [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: 24/07/2026

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