Lead Production Project Management

Job Title: Lead Production Project Manager

Location: Bristol Gloucestershire

Compensation: Competitive Salary Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71852

Lead the delivery of missioncritical projects that shape the future of defence

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Lead Production Project Manager at Ashton House near Bristol South Gloucestershire

The role

As aLead Production Project Manager youll play a central role in delivering some of the UKs most strategically important defence programmes. This is an opportunity to guide complex production activity within our Mission Systems business a trusted provider of advanced intelligence surveillance reconnaissance communication and weaponshandling solutions across all defence domains.

Its work that shapes the future of defence accelerates your career develops your leadership capability and gives you a genuine sense of purpose.

Day-to-day youll be contributing directly to national security by leading the production delivery of critical equipment for the Dreadnought programme.

• Lead production delivery activity across boats 24 ensuring predictable datadriven programme performance.
• Drive forward cultural change by embedding modern project controls and improved reporting and planning processes.
• Represent Production within the D0 management team and lead regular internal collaboration to resolve challenges and maintain delivery excellence.
• Engage with customers through weekly reviews fostering strong transparent relationships and ensuring shared understanding of progress and risk.
• Lead motivate and develop your team setting high standards in planning performance safety communication and continuous improvement.

This role is full time 37 hours per week is based on site at Ashton House.

Essential experience of the Lead Production Project Manager

• Demonstrable experience in project delivery with strong project controls awareness.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• Commercially and financially astute with a proactive challenging mindset.
• Experience leading teams within a production or manufacturing environment (advantageous).
• Ability to influence negotiate and drive collaborative working across complex programmes.

Qualifications for the Lead Production Project Manager

We value difference and dont have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 - ().

What we offer

We believe in supporting our people to thrive. At Babcock youll benefit from:

• 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 10days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• Be Kind Day one paid day each year to volunteer with a charity of your choice
• Flexible working options to help balance life and work while meeting business needs
• A dynamic supportive and missiondriven working environment

Babcock

Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.

Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 17/03/2026

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