Job Title: Project Controller
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £39. - £46, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Help shape complex infrastructure projects that protect what matters most
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 Controller at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be a vital part of our Project Management Office, supporting the delivery of a fast‑paced portfolio of complex infrastructure projects within our marine sector. You’ll bring clarity, control and insight to programmes that truly matter, working with diverse technical and commercial teams to ensure projects remain on track, on time and within budget.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
1. Supporting the development of project packs, governance reports and performance metrics
2. Maintaining baseline budgets, cost control processes and earned value management data
3. Managing schedules, change control activity and project documentation
4. Developing and maintaining risk and opportunity registers, tracking mitigation actions
5. Engaging with multidisciplinary internal teams and external stakeholders to support delivery
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Project Controller
6. Recent, relevant experience in a project controls or project management environment
7. Understanding and hands‑on experience of earned value management principles
8. Experience working within complex, regulated or infrastructure‑led sectors
9. Confidence analysing cost, schedule and performance data
10. Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse technical and non‑technical stakeholders
Qualifications for the Project Controller
11. A bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management or a related discipline - desirable
12. A professional qualification such as APM, Association for Cost Engineering, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or equivalent - desirable
13. Knowledge of NEC4 contracting principles - 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 .
What we offer
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
20. 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.
21. ‘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
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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