Job Title: Cost Controller
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72906
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 Cost Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Cost Controller, you’ll play a vital role in enhancing project performance and stability across major submarine programmes. Working within a collaborative project controls environment, you’ll collect, analyse and report meaningful cost information that enables informed decision‑making at both project and programme level.
Day-to-day, you’ll build deep expertise in cost control, earned value and financial analysis within a highly regulated defence environment. Your work will directly influence delivery outcomes, helping the business manage change, improve forecasting accuracy and maintain control over complex projects, while developing valuable skills that will support long‑term career progression.
- Managing actual project costs against agreed performance baselines
- Producing accurate internal and external cost reports for senior leadership
- Analysing cost, variance and performance data to identify risks and opportunities
- Supporting forecast coordination with activity owners across the programme
- Conducting investigations and providing clear recommendations based on evidence
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 – 3 days in the office/onsite and.
Essential experience of the Cost Controller
- Experience working in a cost control, project controls or financial environment
- Understanding of project cost management, earned value or finance principles
- Strong data analysis skills with the ability to interpret and explain findings
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders and communicate clearly at all levels
Qualifications for the Cost Controller
- A relevant professional qualification or demonstrable experience in a project or cost control environment
- Association for Project Management Project Fundamentals Qualification or Project Management Qualification 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 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: 29/04/2026
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