Job Title: Assistant Project Controller
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £28,300 to £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72922
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 Assistant Project Controller at our Plymouth, Devon site.
As an Assistant Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key role in supporting the capture, analysis and implementation of Learning from Experience across the Submarine Disposal Programme. Sitting at the centre of programme delivery and continuous improvement, this role offers wide exposure across engineering, project management and senior stakeholders.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Support the delivery of a professional approach to Learning from Experience management and associated processes
- Work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders across all levels to analyse data and identify improvement opportunities
- Lead and support Learning from Experience investigations within a complex, multi‑stakeholder environment
- Produce high‑quality, timely and insightful reports that inform programme and business decisions
- Maintain databases, registers and trackers to ensure accurate, accessible organisational learning
This is a full‑time, permanent role, working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Devonport. Hybrid working patterns are available, and occasional travel to other Babcock and customer sites may be required.
Essential experience of the Assistant Project Controller:
- Experience producing clear, well‑structured written outputs and reports
- Confidence engaging and communicating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to challenge constructively and respond positively to challenge
- Experience working in a collaborative, multi‑disciplinary environment
- Interest in continuous improvement and learning cultures
Qualifications for the Assistant Project Controller:
- Degree or equivalent professional experience (essential)
- Project management qualification such as APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or PRINCE2 (desirable)
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 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
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 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: 04/05/2026
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