Project Manager, Operations Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

Project Manager

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ

Onsite or Hybrid:
Hybrid

As a Project Manager, you’ll lead the successful delivery of complex engineering projects from concept through to completion. You’ll have the opportunity to shape outcomes, drive performance, and collaborate with expert teams across multiple disciplines gaining exposure to cutting‑edge technologies and nationally critical work.

This is a role where your leadership and decision‑making skills will directly influence project success, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence. You’ll build your career in a supportive environment that encourages continuous development and progression.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead the planning and delivery of projects to agreed scope, schedule, and budget
• Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and alignment
• Monitor project performance and manage risks, issues, and change control
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams to achieve project milestones and objectives
• Ensure compliance with governance, safety, and quality standards

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with Wednesday and Thursday onsite (although this is flexible) and the other days working from home.

• Experience of managing international projects with a good understanding of different business cultures.
• Confident collaborator with experience working in partnership
• Able to show drive and desire to make a daily positive impact
• Used to working to tight deadlines, plans, and schedules
• Someone who navigates change easily and continually seeks to learn and develop new skills

• PMQ or PPQ (desirable) or equivalent Excellent stakeholder management

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 -  () .

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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 car 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.