Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Project Controls Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £57,300 - £71,600 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74449
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 Controls Manager at our Plymouth, Devon site.
The role
As a Project Controls Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take a leading role in delivering complex marine defence programmes that safeguard national capability. You’ll guide decision-making through data-led insight, ensuring performance, cost, and risk are effectively managed across the full project lifecycle.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Lead and develop an integrated project controls function across planning, cost, risk, and change
Own end-to-end project controls delivery, including governance, performance management, and reporting
Drive data-led insights by analysing trends, identifying risks, and enabling informed decision-making
Deliver dashboards, reports, and key performance indicators aligned with business and contractual requirements
Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to maintain alignment across the project lifecycle
This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, based at Devonport Dockyard. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Project Controls Manager
Experience working across one or more project controls disciplines
Broad understanding of project controls including cost management, scheduling, risk, change, and estimating
Proven ability to lead or influence teams within complex project environments
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and communicate clear insights
Experience supporting performance management in large-scale projects or programmes
Qualifications for the Project Controls Manager
APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
APMG Project Planning and Control (PPC) certification
Relevant degree or equivalent experience (desirable)
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
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
Babcock
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.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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
[email protected] 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.
Closing date: 02/07/2026
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