Project Management Lead

Job Title: Project Management Lead

Location: Oxfordshire, England + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72905

Shape and influence project delivery across a major defence aviation programme

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Management Lead at Brize Norton, supporting one of the United Kingdom's most significant military aviation contracts.

The role

As a Project Management Lead, you'll provide central coordination, governance and oversight across a wide portfolio of work within our Aviation business. You will act as the focal point for customer demand, project intake, change requests and proposal activity, ensuring all work is prioritised, structured and governed effectively. Your role will strengthen programme performance, increase visibility across the portfolio and ensure decisions are based on accurate, timely information.

Day to day, you will be:

• Leading the coordination, tracking and governance of project requests, proposals and change activity across a complex aviation portfolio.
• Preparing accurate, high quality proposals, responses and supporting documentation in line with governance requirements.
• Providing clear reporting on project progress, risks, issues and dependencies, maintaining visibility across all active and upcoming work.
• Managing the lifecycle of customer requests from initial enquiry through to project closure and handover.
• Supporting communication and alignment between commercial, finance, procurement, delivery teams and customer stakeholders.

This is a full time hybrid role, working 40 hours per week, with on site attendance for customer meetings and team collaboration.

Essential experience of the Project Management Lead

• Proven experience in Project Management Office, project coordination or delivery support within a complex operational or regulated environment.
• Experience supporting proposals, requests for quotation and/or change control processes.
• Strong understanding of governance, assurance and structured delivery frameworks.
• Ability to manage multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong commercial writing skills and experience producing high quality documentation.

Qualifications for the Project Management Lead

Formal project or PMO qualification (such as PRINCE2, APM or PMO Practitioner) desirable.

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 - GOV.UK () .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll 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, we're 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'. 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.