Senior Project Controller in Bristol

Location: Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Controller at Ashton House, near Bristol.

The Role

As a Senior Project Controller, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of complex defence programmes, including weapon launch and handling systems. You’ll lead the project controls function across the full project lifecycle, ensuring robust planning, cost management and performance reporting that keeps projects on track and delivers value for our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership, influence decision‑making and work at the heart of high‑profile engineering programmes. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, commercial and programme teams, building deep expertise while developing your leadership capability in a highly respected project environment. Your work will directly contribute to national defence capability and support your own professional growth within a world‑class organisation.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Preparing and delivering internal and external project control reports and documentation.
• Maintaining integrated master schedules, advising on critical paths and schedule performance.
• Providing cost forecasting, variance analysis and earned value management reporting.
• Coordinating cost risk analysis, change control and performance measurement activities.
• Supporting accurate spend projections, work‑in‑progress and estimate‑at‑complete forecasts.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Controller

• Considerable experience applying project management and project control techniques across the full lifecycle.
• Experience working within complex engineering or technical project environments.
• Practical experience using earned value management and schedule or cost risk analysis.
• Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of contracts and cost control.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and champion high performance.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Controller

• Project Management qualification such as APM Project Management Qualification or equivalent.
• Chartered status is advantageous.

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.

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 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 UK Babcock 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 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: 13/02/2026