Job Title: Senior Project Controller
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £54,019 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF72746
Bring Your Skills to Projects That Help Create a Safer World.
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 Senior Project Controller at our Plymouth, Devon site.
The role
As a Senior Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a central role in shaping the success of some of the UK’s most critical defence programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of complex submarine planning projects—work that directly contributes to national security and global safety. You’ll help lead a multi‑disciplined project controls team, acting as deputy to the Project Controls Manager and driving consistent, accurate and insightful performance reporting.
Day-to-day, you’ll be expected to:
- Support the Project Controls Manager in managing performance across the A‑Class Planning Programme.
- Collaborate with colleagues to build and maintain standardised reporting processes across project control functions.
- Work closely with the Project Manager to interpret performance insights and recommend mitigation actions.
- Provide clear visibility of schedule, cost, risk and scope performance using KPIs and analytics.
- Encourage the integration of project control functions to improve efficiency and decision‑making.
This is a full‑time position, 35 hours per week, based in Plymouth, Devon. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a typical onsite presence of three days per week.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Controller:
- Experience in at least one project control function (risk, cost, scheduling, estimating, scope management).
- Understanding of how project control functions integrate to build a holistic project performance view.
- Knowledge of Power BI and data analytics to support project decision‑making.
- Experience in a fast‑paced, complex project environment (submarines experience beneficial).
- Proven leadership capability to bring teams together toward shared goals.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Controller:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management or a related discipline.
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent.
- APM Project Planning and Controls (PPC) or equivalent.
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 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: 24/04/2026
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