Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60792
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 Ashchurch site in Teweksbury.
The role
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be a senior manager in the Project Management Office (PMO) within our ISTAR & Cyber business area, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of project management and support staff delivering a portfolio of tasks and projects across government contracts.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide operational management of our project teams, you’ll be responsible for the timely and cost-effective delivery of products and services to our customers.
- You’ll provide end-to-end delivery of complex projects throughout the project lifecycle. Responsible for supporting customers from early requirements capture, right through to delivery and handover.
- You’ll apply strong project management skills and methodologies to ensure consistency, quality, accountability and high standards across the PMO and you’ll regularly present project performance to seniors and directors.
- You’ll apply appropriate and scalable project controls to all areas of your projects, including risk, financial, change and stakeholder management, in-line with Babcock and APM methodologies.
- Providing overall operational and strategic management of the PMO you’ll be responsible for personnel management of staff, workload balancing and supporting with recruitment.
This role is full time 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch, near Teweskbury., Glos.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager
- Extensive experience in Project Management.
- Experience working on complex engineering projects preferred.
- Defence and security experience is highly desirable.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager
- APM Project Professional Qualification (SCQF Level 9, PMQ, PRINCE2/Project Management Institute (PMI), or equivalents.
- Current, valid DV Security clearance.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who holds current, valid DV clearance, and is able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Developed Vetting (EDV) 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 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.
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