Job Title: Package Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £43,935.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63823
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 Package Manager at our Devonport, Devon site.
The role
As a Package Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary, contributing to the maintenance the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent (CASD). Playing a pivotal role leading various highly complex packages of work, within a highly regulated environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll report into a Zone Project Manager with responsibility for managing a discrete package of work, and be responsible for time, cost, scope, quality and risk
As the Package Manager on the Mid Zone you will be responsible for a specific package of work which will support the overall delivery of a complex submarine project.
You will be integrated within a project management function, working alongside a number of other project managers, interfacing with Production, Project Controls, Commissioning, MOD and key sub-contractors.
- Leading on a specific or bound package within the zonal project.
- Ensuring packages are delivered to a deterministic baseline.
- Monitoring the budget for their respective work breakdown, ensuring material, labour, plant-hire and sub-contract spends have sufficient contractual coverage.
- Capturing and collating technical issues throughout the project.
- Providing all necessary support functions to the production centres to maximise productive effort in achieving the project objectives.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on-site at Devonport, Devon.
Essential Experience Of The Package Manager
- Limited experience in Project Management with an ability to lead a project of limited complexity or assist in managing a complex project.
- Knowledge/Experience of delivering a package of work on time.
- Ability to communicate at all levels within a matrix organisation.
- Demonstrable Safety Leadership.
Desirable Qualifications For The Package Manager
- Level 4 in Project Management/ Engineering/ Construction.
- APM Project Fundamentals 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 (www.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 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 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
- 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
[email protected] 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: 30/07/2025
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