Hybrid Senior Project Manager

at Babcock International Group

• Job title: Senior Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Project Manager driving critical engineering projects within UK defence. Lead teams, manage risks, and ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and strategic leadership to ensure successful delivery of project commitments.
• Manage complex engineering projects, ensuring teams understand and meet requirements across cost, schedule, and quality.
• Oversee full lifecycle delivery, including requirements capture, scoping, pricing, commercial solutions, and proposal development.
• Drive effective risk management, minimising exposure and ensuring robust governance.
• Apply structured change management to balance customer flexibility with sound commercial agreements.

Requirements

• Significant experience in advanced project management within a relevant technical or engineering environment.
• Proven leadership experience, motivating and directing multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects with varied demands, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Strong financial management capability to maintain project profitability.
• Experience delivering solutions through internal resource teams and external supply chains.
• APM PMQ or equivalent professional project management qualification.
• Chartered status or equivalent accreditation.
• The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 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
• ‘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.