Project Controls Manager

Company: Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.
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Location: Plymouth
Job Description:

Project Controls Manager

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Project Controls Manager

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

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer

  • 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

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.

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Posted: June 21st, 2026