Job Title: Cost Controller
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £60, dependent upon experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the future of defence engineering with us
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 Cost Controller at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As a Cost Controller, you’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most meaningful defence programmes - supporting the safe, continuous operation of critical in‑service submarines. You’ll play a key part in strengthening decision‑making, enhancing performance and ensuring our customer has the insight needed to deliver safely and effectively.
Day-to-day, you’ll play a key role in delivering a diverse and high‑profile portfolio of Planning, Engineering and Design Services (PEDS) to our customer. You’ll work closely with project leads, delivery teams and finance teams, taking ownership of the collation, analysis and presentation of project cost data. Your work will span the full project lifecycle - from scoping and estimating new tasks to monitoring performance, tracking costs, reporting progress and supporting successful project close‑out.
1. Delivering cost control across a diverse in‑service submarine programme, working from scoping to close‑out.
2. Liaising with Project Leads, activity owners and Accountants to collect, analyse and interpret actuals data.
3. Producing multi‑layered internal and external cost reports that drive informed decision‑making.
4. Providing clear analysis, recommendations and justifications, supported by meaningful data.
5. Managing cost performance baselines, including monitoring actuals, tracking change and coordinating forecasts.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Cost Controller
6. Experience in a cost control or cost management environment.
7. Understanding of project controls (cost control, earned value, finance, scheduling or estimating).
8. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability.
9. Proficiency in Excel with confident data analysis skills.
10. Experience using cost management systems such as Cobra or Ecosys or SAP.
Qualifications for the Cost Controller
11. Degree‑level education or an APMP qualification (or equivalent experience).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
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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