Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits + Overtime
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74194
Deliver Complex Infrastructure That Supports National Security
At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Project Manager, you will take ownership of delivering a portfolio of high-value, complex infrastructure projects within a major defence environment. From early business case through to final handover, you will guide projects across their entire lifecycle making a tangible difference to operational capability and national resilience.
This is an opportunity to grow your career in a dynamic engineering environment, working alongside industry experts while shaping large-scale programmes that demand innovation, precision, and leadership.
Day-to-day you will be required to:
- Deliver infrastructure projects in line with recognised project lifecycle standards, from concept through to completion
- Coordinate the development of project briefs, technical designs, and tender processes
- Manage multidisciplinary design teams, contractors, and external stakeholders
- Oversee contractor performance during delivery to ensure time, cost, and quality targets are met
- Lead project governance, risk management, and handover processes
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and provides hybrid working arrangements with an initial expectation of three to four days on site per week.
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
- Managing construction or engineering infrastructure projects in a complex environment
- Applying standard forms of contract such as NEC4 or JCT
- Leading design teams across project lifecycle stages (e.g. RIBA Plan of Work)
- Working with project management tools and methodologies (such as Primavera or Microsoft Project)
- Controlling project budgets and delivering against financial targets
Qualifications for the Project Manager:
- Minimum HNC in Construction, Engineering, or a related discipline (civil, electrical, mechanical, or project management)
- Working towards or holding professional membership (such as RICS, CIOB, or similar)
- A Project Management qualification (such as APM) is desirable
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.
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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- '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
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: 10/09/2026
