Senior Project Controller

Job Title:

Senior Project Controller

Plymouth, Devon

£54,019 + Benefits

Full time / Permanent

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.

Lead the delivery of complex, high‑impact projects that shape national security.

As a Senior Project Controller, you’ll 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.

• Lead and manage a multi‑discipline Project Controls team across two UK locations.
• Oversee planning, governance, and reporting for multiple submarine disposal baselines.
• Drive coherence and quality across all project controls datasets and performance metrics.
• Deliver project assurance activities across the full project lifecycle, including pre‑bid.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to over 30 project controls professionals.

• Extensive experience in project controls, project management, or programme management.
• Proven experience leading and managing teams.
• Recent, relevant experience in cost control or finance within a comparable sector.
• Experience managing complex project controls across varied products, services, and lifecycle stages.
• Experience working within engineering, nuclear, defence, or other highly regulated environments (advantageous).

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, construction management or a related discipline.
• APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or equivalent.
• Additional project management certifications or advanced professional memberships — Desirable.

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels -

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• 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.
• ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email car with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

18/03/2026