Senior Project Manager

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll drive growth and the role will provide high levels of responsibility and the opportunity to work at the front of delivering some key UK Defence and Security contracts.

Day-to-day, you'll provide overall operational and strategic management of assigned tasks projects within your project team, as well as:

• The Project management of complex engineering projects ensuring that the delivery teams understand cost, time and quality requirements and remain coordinated in their approach to delivering agreed scope of work.


• Providing end-to-end delivery throughout the project lifecycle, you'll also be responsible for supporting with requirement capture, scoping, technical and commercial solutions and the generation of pricing models and proposal documents.


• Providing effective risk management to ensure that the business' risk exposure is kept to a minimum and is effectively managed throughout the project.


• Ensuring that effective change management is applied to projects, balancing flexibility to changing customer requirements with the need for robust commercial agreements.


This role is full time and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.


• Considerable experience in the advanced application of Project Management techniques in a relevant technical project environment.


• Experience in leading and managing a team of project staff, providing direction and motivation.


• Experience managing projects with differing demands and deadlines.


• Great financial management to ensure a high level of profitability on projects.


• Experience delivering solutions with a diverse team of both internal resource teams and external supply chains


• Direct line management experience as well as leadership in a matrix environment


Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager

• APM PMQ, Chartered status or equivalent (advantageous)


Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 Senior Project Manager at our Devonport site.

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 up to 8% of salary, with life assurance


• 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 most 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.


• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.


• Growth opportunities.


• Potential to develop skills.


• A dynamic working environment.


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