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Job Title: IT Project Manager
Location: Hybrid, UK
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72057
Deliver Transformative Digital Change at the Heart of a Global Defence Leader
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an IT Project Manager at any of our main UK locations, near your closest Babcock hub.
The Role
As an IT Project Manager, you’ll help shape the digital landscape that underpins Babcock’s critical operations across defence, aerospace and engineering. You’ll lead complex IT projects that support thousands of users, modernise systems and enable the business to deliver essential services that protect national security.
This is a dynamic, high-impact role where you’ll join a collaborative Group IT team that values innovation, structured delivery and continuous improvement. This will give you the opportunity to grow, expand your skills and make a tangible difference in a purpose-driven organisation.
Day-to-day, your expertise will directly influence the quality, efficiency and resilience of the technology platforms used across all Babcock sectors.
- Lead the planning, tracking and successful delivery of multiple IT projects simultaneously, adjusting resources and timelines as needed.
- Maintain full project documentation in line with Babcock’s IT Project Management Process.
- Coordinate communications across all business areas influencing project scope, risk, budget and resources.
- Ensure solution designs meet Babcock’s Standard Technology Framework and enable long-term supportability.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Group IT, business units, external vendors and senior management.
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Essential Experience
- Extensive experience in IT project management within complex, multi-project environments.
- Demonstrable experience delivering large-scale IT projects on time and within budget using structured project methodologies.
- Strong background managing in-house development teams and third-party suppliers.
- Ability to manage 4–5 projects simultaneously with confidence and clarity.
- Expertise in current IT technologies and lifecycle processes, including ALM and software application delivery.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Certified Scrum Master, Agile certification, or equivalent.
- Professional project management qualification such as PRINCE2 or APM (or equivalent).
Preferred:
- Experience with Microsoft Project Server.
- Knowledge of DevOps, infrastructure delivery (network, server, VOIP, Citrix, Cisco), or software application project management.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. UK Nationals only.
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.
What We Offer
You’ll receive a strong range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, development and work-life balance, including:
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- 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
- 10-days special paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists
- Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
- Flexible working options to help balance personal and professional commitments
- A dynamic, supportive and purpose-driven working environment
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 14/07/2026
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