Programme Manager

Location

Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title:        Programme Manager
Location:        Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute 
Compensation:    £68,000 - £80,000 + 15% Bonus + Healthcare + Benefits
Role Type:        Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:        SF54757

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 Programme Manager at our Faslane 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.

This is an exciting role at HMNB Clyde within an expanding Programme Department focused on ensuring delivery of a conforming product to the Royal Navy’s submarine flotilla. You will directly support a team of 30 highly effective Project and Engineering Specialists within the Fleet Operations Directorate.

The role
As a Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a highly prestigious position within our complex Fleet Time Support programme, responsible for ensuring that the Directorate delivers the Programme within Performance, Time and Cost criteria.

Day to day, you’ll be responsible for delivering against the Portfolio strategy whilst working with the internal and external stakeholders to ensure ‘on time’ delivery of Submarines to the Royal Navy.

• Championing safety and quality whilst ensuring delivery against department targets and KPIs.
• Supporting the development of the team members to encourage both their effective working, and their personal and professional progression. 
• In addition, you will belong to the wider Babcock Marine Nuclear Group and will have the opportunity to support other projects in different roles within your discipline with a focus on longer term career development.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far, you will be fully supported to continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

This role is full time and will be based at Faslane with site attendance and travel to meet programme requirements, minimum of 4 days per week on site.

Essential experience of the Programme Manager:

• Experience as a Programme / Project Management Professionals within a highly regulated environment such as Marine, Offshore Energy or Nuclear sectors.
• Not essential but advantageous, experience within Submarine systems and equipment.

Qualifications for the Programme Manager:

• An Engineering or Project Management HND or relevant and sustained experience at an appropriate level within a related field.
• Minimum of ILM 5 (Certificate) or equivalent experience.
• Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner qualification or equivalent.
• APM qualified preferably to Registered Project Professional (RPP).

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Contributory 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 most 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 International 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. 

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:    20/03/2024

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