Construction Project Manager

About the job

Job Title: Construction Project Manager
Location: Chatham, Kent
Compensation: £60,000 - £64,000
Role Type: Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF57894

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 Project Manager at our Chatham site.

The Role
As a Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for the delivery of construction and property related projects across the RSME contract and ensuring the contractor is delivering in accordance with contract specifications.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the site management of allocated construction, property and infastructure related projects.

• Supervising and overseeing the direction of the project.
• Ensuring the contractor is adhering to and maintaining the project specification
• Ensuring statutory and contractual compliance
• Managing stakeholders across the RSME contract to ensure the project is communucation and managed.
• Ensuring HSE, sustainability and company policy compliance are in place at all times

This role is full time, 37 hours per week with a hybrid working arrangement

Essential experience of the Project Manager

• Extensive technical expertise and experience in a comparable role gained in a similar environment, consultancy, or end user client
• Experience in project management related discipline demonstrating strong leadership skills
• Experience of successful delivery of building services and contruction related projects.
• Ideally working knowledge of the JCT suite of contracts, in particular JCT 2016 ICD

Qualifications for the Project Manager:

• Construction project management degree or similar comparable qualification
• Hold a SMSTS or NEBOSH qualification

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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

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.