Navy Command - Clyde Transformation Programme - Project Manager

At Navy Command, we lead, support, and sustain the Royal Navy across every theatre of operations. We coordinate the people, platforms, and missions that keep the Fleet ready for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. Together, we uphold centuries of naval tradition while driving innovation that ensures the Royal Navy’s readiness to protect our nation and secure our future.

As the authority for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine capability, the Submarine Directorate oversees one of the most complex and critical elements of UK defence. Covering everything from in‑service management to long‑term fleet modernisation, the directorate ensures the Submarine Flotilla remains safe, reliable, and ready to meet national security requirements.

In the Clyde Transformation Programme (CTP) military, civil servants and industry partners work together to build new facilities and refurbishments to existing facilities to support current and future operations on His Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde. A contingent docking capability is required in the event of DREADNOUGHT (DRNT) needing to conduct an unplanned docking from the point of Barrow exit until the first nuclear use of the first Project Euston floating dock at HMNB Clyde. The location of the contingent docking facility (CDF) is at Royal Rosyth Dockyard Limited.

You’ll be based at either Kentigern House, Glasgow or HMS Caledonia, Rosyth. This role will require you to occasionally travel HMS Caledonia if based in Glasgow to support programme delivery, stakeholder engagement, and key activities across the wider organisation.

Nationality, visas, and vetting: For security reasons this role is open to sole UK nationals only. A ‘sole UK national’ refers to an individual who holds citizenship solely in the UK, without dual citizenship or nationality from another country.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

We're looking for a Project Manager to help deliver the Contingent Docking Facility (CDF), a complex and high-profile project within the Clyde Transformation Programme. This is an exciting opportunity to lead important work, ensuring activity is delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.

You'll work closely with the Programme Manager, providing support across a range of activities and deputising when required. You'll play a key role in bringing people together, managing delivery, and ensuring project activity remains on track to achieve its objectives.

As a Project Manager, you'll lead the day-to-day delivery of projects from planning through to completion. You'll develop project plans, monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and ensure that project objectives are achieved.

You'll build strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, understanding their requirements and helping to turn these into practical and deliverable plans. You'll work collaboratively with colleagues, project teams and specialists to coordinate activities, manage dependencies and support successful outcomes.

You'll also oversee project budgets and resources, ensuring that funding and people are used effectively. This includes monitoring costs, forecasting spend and identifying future resource requirements.

The role will involve supporting governance and assurance activities, preparing reports, coordinating decision-making processes and ensuring that project information is accurate and up to date. You'll help manage change requests, maintain project controls and contribute to effective risk management across the wider portfolio.

In addition, you'll provide leadership and support to team members, helping to create a positive and collaborative working environment while promoting continuous improvement and professional development.

We value flexible ways of working. This role requires regular onsite attendance (around 60% of the working week) to benefit from face-to-face collaboration, while offering flexibility of hours to support work life balance and business needs. During the initial period, you may be asked to attend more frequently to get familiar with the site, team, and responsibilities.

What you will be doing:

• Lead the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring agreed outcomes are achieved.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, resources, risks and issues.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders and ensure their requirements are understood and addressed.
• Monitor progress, provide clear reporting and support governance and assurance activities.
• Coordinate project teams and work with colleagues to deliver successful outcomes.
• Support continuous improvement and provide leadership across the project team.

Open to UK nationals only.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of Defence Reform, Navy Command continues to review and evolve its Target Operating Model to support more agile ways of working. In this context, the role and responsibilities of this role may develop over time to reflect changing business priorities and opportunities.

At Sift, you will be assessed against the following;

• Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history, qualification details and previous skills and experience.
• Candidates will be required to provide a personal statement. This should be a maximum of 500 words that sets out your motivation for applying and shows how your skills and experience meet the essential requirements for the role."

At Interview, you will be assessed against the following;

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Further information:

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.