Transversal Project Manager

Job Title: Transversal Project Manager
Location: Bristol, UK - Onsite
Compensation: £ 55,000.00 + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 45943

Amplify your impact

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 Transversal Project Manager at our Bristol site.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

Mission Systems

The Transversal Project Manager role is based within our Mission Systems business area.

Babcock is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers' needs.

The role

The difference our new Transversal Project Manager will make
As a Transversal Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This role is on a large design and build programme of national importance with a healthy, long term order-book and within a growing business that is consistently achieving double digit annual growth by protecting existing interests, adapting to a changing defence landscape and growing into new markets by embracing new technology.

Day to day, you'll have responsibility for the successful delivery of transversal elements of the WHLS hardware and associated quality documentation to the customer within agreed timescales and budgets and to the specified quality, responsbile for operational management of the engineering teams that deliver the traversal equipment including schedule and risk management as well as inform decision making to deliver to contract requirements and timeframes and carry out timely and accurate reporting of management information both within the business and to the customer.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you'll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role is based Onsite in Bristol.

Essential experience

* Project management experience, ideally in a defence or wider engineering context
* A knowledge of project controls tools and how these tools operate to provide key information for decision making.
* Risk management - coordination of risk identification, assessment and management, and ensuring that risk management processes are followed across all work packages and contracts.
* Financial Management - Development and maintenance of contract specific schedules in order to support business-wide resource management

What we offer

Generous benefits including:
* Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
* Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
* Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
* Our Big Benefit Platform allows you to make your money go further, with discounts from over 850 retailers.
* Employee Share Plan
* Professional memberships, personal development training an opportunities
* STEM ambassador training and volunteering opportunities
* Working from home and flexible work patterns
* Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
* Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
* Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

Babcock International
For over 130 years, we have 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. Change begins with our people and our shared Principles: be curious; be courageous; own and deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; and be kind. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.

Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. If you are a reservist in the armed forces, we provide up to ten days special paid leave in support of your training commitments.

Application Guidance

All applications should be made online. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 23/08/2022

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