Job Title: Senior Project Controller
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £54, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead the delivery of complex, hight-impact projects that shape national security
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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior Project Controller, you’ll will play a vital leadership role within our Submarine Disposal programme, one of the most unique and nationally important areas of our Naval Nuclear sector. This is your opportunity to drive excellence in project performance, lead a multi‑disciplined team, and help deliver complex engineering and decommissioning projects that directly support UK defence capability.
Day-to-day, you’ll act as deputy to the Senior Project Controls Manager, guiding a large and diverse Project Controls team and ensuring the successful control of up to nine major submarine disposal projects.
1. Lead and manage a multi‑discipline Project Controls team across two UK locations.
2. Oversee planning, governance, and reporting for multiple submarine disposal baselines.
3. Drive coherence and quality across all project controls datasets and performance metrics.
4. Deliver project assurance activities across the full project lifecycle, including pre‑bid.
5. Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to over 30 project controls professionals.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Controller
6. Extensive experience in project controls, project management, or programme management.
7. Proven experience leading and managing teams.
8. Recent, relevant experience in cost control or finance within a comparable sector.
9. Experience managing complex project controls across varied products, services, and lifecycle stages.
10. Experience working within engineering, nuclear, defence, or other highly regulated environments (advantageous).
Qualifications for the Senior Project Controller
11. Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management or a related discipline.
12. APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or equivalent.
13. Additional project management certifications or advanced professional memberships - 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 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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