Project Commissioning Manager

Job Title:                     Project Commissioning Manage

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF74089

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 Project Commissioning Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As  Project Commissioning Manager, you’ll lead commissioning activities for submarine propulsion systems, playing a critical role in ensuring Vanguard Class submarines are safe, operational and mission ready. This is a senior opportunity within the Commissioning Group, where your leadership and technical expertise will directly support the UK’s continuous at-sea deterrent.

Day-to-day, you’ll operate at the heart of defence engineering, managing complex commissioning programmes, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring delivery meets exacting standards for safety, quality and performance. This is an opportunity to further develop your leadership career while contributing to one of the most important engineering programmes in the UK.

• Leading the planning and execution of commissioning tests and trials for submarine propulsion systems


• Managing technical issues, resources and schedules to deliver activities safely, on time and within budget


• Overseeing the preparation and review of commissioning and test documentation


• Driving high standards of health and safety across all commissioning activities


• Collaborating with Ministry of Defence stakeholders, engineering teams and suppliers to support programme delivery

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Project Commissioning Manager

• Extensive knowledge of submarine systems, particularly propulsion systems and SSBN operations


• Experience in commissioning, operation, refitting or maintenance of nuclear submarines


• Strong understanding of safe systems of work, including isolation and control processes


• Proven leadership experience within complex engineering or defence environments


• Strong planning, organisational and stakeholder management skills

Qualifications for the Project Commissioning Manager

• Engineering degree (essential)


• Alternatively, HNC or Foundation Degree in engineering with significant relevant experience (essential)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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: 11/06/2026

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