Assistant Project Controls Specialist

Job Title:                    Assistant Project Controls Specialist

Location:                    Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:          £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                  Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                      SF73644

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 Assistant Project Controls Specialist at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role

As an Assistant Project Controls Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key role in ensuring complex defence projects stay on track, within scope, and aligned to critical programme objectives. Working within the Submarine Disposal and Dismantling Programme, you’ll support the management of change across project baselines- helping deliver robust performance insights that underpin national security outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in project controls within a dynamic defence, aerospace and engineering environment, gaining exposure to high-profile programmes and a wide range of stakeholders.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Manage change control trackers and registers, ensuring accurate and up-to-date records
• Support the evaluation of change impacts across scope, schedule, and cost
• Maintain and update project baselines to reflect approved changes
• Produce reports and insights to support project decision-making
• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders across the programme to ensure effective change management

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Devonport. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Essential experience of the Assistant Project Controls Specialist:

• Demonstrate strong communication skills when working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Show confidence working with detailed data and information in a structured way
• Use Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint effectively
• Bring a proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• Understand project management or project controls principles (desirable)

Qualifications for the Assistant Project Controls Specialist:

• Degree qualified or equivalent relevant experience (essential)
• Project Controls or Project Management qualifications such as APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or Project Planning and Control (desirable)
• Membership of, or willingness to join, a relevant professional body such as the Association for Project Management (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 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.

Closing date: 26/05/2026

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