Job Title: Change Controller
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £39,.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the future of complex engineering programmes that protect the nation
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 Change Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Change Controller, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring that complex engineering projects evolve in a controlled, governed and transparent way. This is an exciting, entry‑level‑plus opportunity within a highly structured project environment, offering exposure to real decision‑making, senior stakeholders and industry‑leading governance frameworks.
Day-to-day, you’ll facilitate controlled changes to the project baseline, ensuring that change is formally assessed, approved, recorded, and implemented in accordance with governance requirements, with full traceability and audit readiness.
1. Managing and maintaining accurate change registers, logs and trackers, ensuring full traceability and audit readiness
2. Supporting the assessment, approval and implementation of controlled changes, including impacts to scope, cost, schedule and risk
3. Maintaining project and programme baselines in line with configuration management and governance requirements
4. Producing change‑related reporting, metrics and management insight to highlight trends, risks and decision points
5. Contributing to continuous improvement of change control processes within a collaborative Project Controls function
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office/onsite and 2-3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Change Controller
6. Experience maintaining accurate records, logs or trackers within a governed or controlled environment
7. Ability to work autonomously, demonstrating ownership, organisation and accountability
8. Competence using Microsoft Excel and digital document management systems
9. Ability to communicate clearly with internal stakeholders through reports, briefings or written updates
10. Awareness of project, commercial, contract or change control environments within complex organisations
Qualifications for the Change Controller
11. APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or equivalent
12. Project Planning and Controls Foundation level 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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