Job Title: Assistant Project Controller
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £29,200 to £37,700 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67540
Shape the future of defence and engineering with Babcock
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 Project Controller at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As an Assistant Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of delivering critical submarine projects that support the Royal Navy and national defence. This is a unique opportunity to grow your career in a dynamic, high-impact environment where your work directly contributes to the safety, security, and operational readiness of the UK’s naval fleet.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Support and govern project controls processes across submarine programmes
- Input and analyse data to support informed business decisions
- Produce and interpret management information for monthly reporting
- Communicate insights clearly to internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver training and coaching to enhance system usage and capability
This role is full-time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday from 07:15 to 16:45, and is initially based on-site at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Hybrid working arrangements may be available once established in the role.
Essential experience of the Assistant Project Controller
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
- Experience with business applications such as SAP, Primavera, PEPS, MOBI, BMS, or Success Factors
- Understanding of project controls functions (e.g. risk, change management, estimating)
- Strong analytical skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Confident communicator with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
Qualifications for the Assistant Project Controller
- Strong Excel skills are essential
- Experience with SAP GUI is desirable but not essential
- Background in accounting or cost recovery would be advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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: 18/11/2025
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