Project Manager

Walsall, England, United Kingdom

5/16/2025

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: £40,000 - £45,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63592

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 Project Manager at our Walsall site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be instrumental in ensuring our projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and at the highest quality. You'll take full ownership of the entire process, from inception to completion and final payment.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead and oversee planning, execution and successful delivery of vehicle conversion projects at our West Midlands facility. You’ll also:

• Provide successful project delivery will include full delivery from initiation to delivery for complex and major initiatives simultaneously
• Manage risks and issues, leading the project team to deliver mitigating actions, utilising requisite documentation templates
• Report on project metrics and progress on a weekly and monthly basis
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organisation
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Previous experience in project management
• Excellent planning, co-ordination and organisation skills
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and operational functions in the organisation
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Educated to Level 5 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (foundation degree, Level 5 NVQ, high national diploma (HND)) or equivalent workplace experience
• Completed project management methodology qualification (e.g. APM, PRINCE2)
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV2 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 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 [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: 30/05/2025