Job Title: Project Controls Manager
Location: Corsham or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Project Controls Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol or Corsham, Wiltshire sites.
The role
We have multiple Project Controls Managers opportunities within our Mission Systems business, where innovation meets impact. Mission Systems delivers advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems to state-of-the-art communications and weapons handling technologies across land, sea and air.
Day to day, you’ll work closely with Project and Programme Managers while leading a dynamic team of project controls professionals, driving the delivery of cost, time, risk, and quality controls across some of the UK’s most exciting and high-impact projects.
1. Build strong relationships with stakeholders, suppliers, and customers alike, ensuring seamless coordination and successful project outcomes in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
2. Lead and uphold project controls governance, ensuring alignment with contract requirements.
3. Define and manage the Performance Measurement Baseline (scope, cost, schedule) with robust oversight.
4. Supervise scheduling teams to develop and maintain integrated project schedules across all execution phases, including subcontractor coordination.
5. Oversee cost, change, risk, opportunity, and document management activities.
6. Implement and maintain a reliable Earned Value Management system, delivering actionable insights through accurate reporting to support informed decision-making.
Our Project Controls Manager roles are full time at 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with up to 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home. We have opportunities available at either our Ashton Vale, Bristol or Corsham, Wiltshire site.
Essential experience of the Project Controls Manager
7. Proven hands-on delivery experience applying project controls and governance measures on complex/major projects or programmes.
8. An organised, confident communicator who also is self-motivated and the ability to transform complex problems into simple, elegant solutions.
9. Knowledge of project controls approaches and practices, such as planning / scheduling management, cost management, risk management and analysis, performance management, change management and configuration control.
10. Experience in working with common project controls toolsets, such as MSP / P6, RiskHive, ERP / SAP systems.
Qualifications for the Project Controls Manager
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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.
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.