Job Title: Assistant Change Control Specialist
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,084.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70744
Engineer change that safeguards the nation — and your future.
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Change Control Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As an Assistant Change Control Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As an Assistant Change Control Specialist, you’ll help manage and govern change across the Submarine Disposal and Dismantling Programme within our Naval Nuclear business. Your work will keep complex projects on track — safeguarding scope, schedule and cost - while contributing to programmes of national importance in defence, aerospace and engineering. It’s meaningful work with real‑world impact: from maintaining the readiness of the Royal Navy to advancing safe, sustainable approaches to submarine defuelling, disposal and decommissioning.
Day-to-day, you’ll own the day‑to‑day management of change control trackers and registers (e.g. the change register).
- Evaluate the impact of change on scope, time and cost, supporting robust decision‑making.
- Maintain and update baselines to protect an accurate performance management baseline.
- Report insights clearly, supporting governance and senior stakeholder forums.
- Collaborate across project teams and project controls in a matrix environment.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office/onsite and 2-3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Assistant Change Control Specialist
- Proven experience engaging a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Self‑motivated and comfortable working with detailed information.
- Strong IT skills, especially Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- A proactive, inquisitive, continuous‑improvement mindset.
- Understanding of project management and project controls principles and language (desirable).
Qualifications for the Assistant Change Control Specialist
- Essential: Degree (or equivalent experience).
- Desirable: APM Project Planning and Control (PPC); APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ); Membership of a relevant professional body (or willingness to obtain), e.g. APM.
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 (www.gov.uk)
What we offer
- 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 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.
Closing date: 29/01/2026
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