Senior Project Manager

Job Title:                     Senior Project Manager

Location:                     Northallerton, North Yorkshire

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71642

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 Leeming, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

The Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll lead complex and high‑profile engineering projects that directly support critical defence communications for the Royal Air Force. This is an opportunity to shape the success of a major new programme within Mission Systems, a place where advanced engineering meets real‑world impact.

You’ll guide multidisciplinary teams, build trusted relationships with our customer, and ensure that essential communication capabilities remain reliable, secure, and ready to support national defence. It’s meaningful work that will elevate your leadership skills, sharpen your technical and commercial experience, and position you at the forefront of one of the most dynamic areas of defence engineering.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex engineering projects across the full project lifecycle.


• Coordinate delivery teams to ensure cost, time, and quality requirements are met.


• Support requirement capture, scoping, technical/commercial solutions, and pricing proposals.


• Apply effective risk and change management to protect project performance.


• Deliver and manage customer performance data, including KPIs and SLAs.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based onsite at Leeming, North Yorkshire. (with 1 day per week at Skelton and the option of 1 day working from home).

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager

• Significant experience applying project management techniques in a technical project environment.


• Experience leading and motivating multidisciplinary project teams.


• Proven ability to manage multiple projects with differing demands and deadlines.


• Strong financial management skills to support profitable project delivery.


• Experience working with internal teams and external suppliers to deliver effective solutions.

Desirable Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager

• APM PMQ or equivalent project management qualification.


• Chartered status or equivalent professional recognition.

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 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: 04/03/2026

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