Assistant Project Controller

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

6/19/2025

Job Title: Assistant Project Controller

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £38,084.00 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / 2 year Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF65347

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Project Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Assistant Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role will have a wide exposure to the business where you will be liaising with and working alongside engineering, project management as well as internal and external stakeholders.

Day-to-day, you’ll will support the capture and management of identified LfE across the Submarine Disposal Programme and assist with implementation.

• Supporting the delivery and management of LfE processes across the Submarine Disposal Programme and relevant projects.
• Working in partnership with the wider Project Control team to analyse information and identify potential LfE
• Assisting with the investigation of LfE, and supporting the production of LfE reports
• Updating and maintaining the LfE capture register and implementation tracker, and relevant databases, e.g. Planning, Estimating and Production System (PEPS).
• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Project Teams, Submarine Delivery Agency) to capture, share and discuss LfE.
  
  
  

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential Experience Of The Assistant Project Controller

• Ability to work as part of a team in a hybrid fashion (essential).
• Experience of producing reports and communicating with Senior Leaders (essential).
• A driven, proactive and inquisitive mind set with the ability to work independently (essential).
• Ability to challenge and be open to being challenged (essential).
• Awareness and understanding of continuous improvement E.g. Lean (desirable)
• Understanding of Project Management lifecycle and principles E.G. APM (desirable).
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Assistant Project Controller

• Qualified to degree level or be able to demonstrate career-based knowledge and experience relevant to the role.
  
  
  

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 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 share scheme
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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.

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