Babcock
Programme Manager
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Job Title: Programme Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74313
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 Programme Manager at our Plymouth, Devon site.
The role
As a Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll take ownership of major infrastructure projects that support critical national capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to lead high-profile projects from planning through to delivery, working with multidisciplinary teams, customers, stakeholders and delivery partners to achieve outstanding outcomes.
You'll play a pivotal role in driving project performance, managing risks and opportunities, and ensuring successful delivery against cost, schedule and quality objectives. In return, you'll have the opportunity to develop your leadership capability, broaden your project portfolio experience and contribute to work that makes a genuine difference.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Build and lead integrated project delivery teams to define, plan, monitor and successfully deliver complex programmes.
- Own customer, stakeholder and delivery partner relationships, ensuring strong collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
- Establish and maintain effective governance arrangements to support successful programme delivery.
- Lead resource, financial and subcontractor management activities while supporting the development of colleagues and providing escalation support where required.
- Manage project risks, assumptions, issues, opportunities and dependencies to ensure delivery objectives are achieved.
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This is a full-time role, based at Devonport, working 35 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Programme Manager
- Demonstrable project management experience with a proven track record of delivering complex projects.
- Extensive recent and relevant experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure or similar project-based environments.
- Full project lifecycle experience from project initiation through to completion.
- Experience working across a variety of project types, services and lifecycle phases.
- Awareness of industry-standard contracting methodologies, including NEC and/or JCT contracts.
Qualifications for the Programme Manager
Essential
- Degree qualification in Engineering, Construction, Project Management or a related discipline.
- APM Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ) or equivalent.
Desirable
- Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) qualification.
- NEC and/or JCT qualification.
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.
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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 the majority of 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.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 29/07/2026
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