Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57394

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 Rosyth site.

The role:
As a Senior Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for day-to-day management of the project and must be competent in managing key aspects of a project i.e., safety, scope, schedule, finance, risk, quality, and resources to achieve a project's agreed objectives. This scope of time, budget and requirement will often be set by our customer via a contract to deliver a specific capability or service.

Day-to-day, you'll manage projects in complex situations, with independence and lead others. You will also:

• Build integrated project delivery teams (including Project Management and Controls, Engineering, SHEQ, Commercial, Procurement and Supply Chain) that work together to define, plan, monitor and control the successful delivery of the project
• Manage Customer interfaces and associated stakeholders including identification and monitoring of project risks, planning and implementing responses
• Lead the project to deliver world class performance by means of employee engagement, continuous improvement and identifying and implementing the latest technology
• Establish and maintain governance arrangements for the delivery of the project, defining clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
• Take accountability for planning and monitoring the project; and submission of regular monthly performance reports; indicating any deviations, corrective action taken and escalation of issues.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager:

• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment / business sector
• Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out.
• Managed projects of varying types and significant complexity: including varying products, services, across all phases of the lifecycle
• Experience in contracting methodologies (e.g. NEC).
• Cross functional awareness of lifecycle requirements for supporting functions

Qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:

• Ideally a bachelor's degree in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
• A postgraduate qualification is also desirable, as is membership in a professional body
• Mandatory (or agreement to attain in 12 months):
• APM Chartered Professional (ChPP)
• APM Project Management Qualification
• APM Project Planning and Controls - Foundation (Desirable)

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
• 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

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 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: 14/05/2024

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