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Walsall, GB, WS2 8LD

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Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: Competitive Salary

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67415

Lead transformative projects that shape the future of defence and engineering.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.

The role
As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take full ownership of projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards. Your leadership will drive excellence across every stage of delivery, making a real impact on national security and public infrastructure.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Lead complex delivery programmes across multiple business areas, ensuring KPIs and deadlines are met
• Shape and enhance delivery practices, tools, and partnerships to strengthen organisational capability.
• Proactively manage risks and issues, driving effective mitigation strategies.
• Own full project lifecycles, managing multiple major initiatives from initiation to completion.
• Inspire and guide project teams to achieve milestones and deliver high-impact outcomes.

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

Essential experience of the Project Manager:
Exceptional planning, coordination, and organisational abilities to manage complex initiatives with precision
Proven leadership, diplomacy, and motivational skills, with the ability to influence across all levels and functions

Qualifications for the Project Manager:
Minimum Level 5 qualification under the National Qualification Framework (e.g. Foundation Degree, Level 5 NVQ, or HND), or equivalent relevant experience
Certified in a recognised project management methodology.

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 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: 23/06/2026

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