Change Controller

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of complex engineering programmes that protect the nation. 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 Change Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role:

• As a Change Controller, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring that complex engineering projects evolve in a controlled, governed and transparent way.
• This is an exciting, entry-level-plus opportunity within a highly structured project environment, offering exposure to real decision-making, senior stakeholders and industry-leading governance frameworks.
• Day-to-day, you’ll facilitate controlled changes to the project baseline, ensuring that change is formally assessed, approved, recorded, and implemented in accordance with governance requirements, with full traceability and audit readiness.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining accurate change registers, logs and trackers, ensuring full traceability and audit readiness.
• Supporting the assessment, approval and implementation of controlled changes, including impacts to scope, cost, schedule and risk.
• Maintaining project and programme baselines in line with configuration management and governance requirements.
• Producing change-related reporting, metrics and management insight to highlight trends, risks and decision points.
• Contributing to continuous improvement of change control processes within a collaborative Project Controls function.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2-3 days in the office/onsite and 2-3 days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Experience maintaining accurate records, logs or trackers within a governed or controlled environment.
• Ability to work autonomously, demonstrating ownership, organisation and accountability.
• Competence using Microsoft Excel and digital document management systems.
• Ability to communicate clearly with internal stakeholders through reports, briefings or written updates.
• Awareness of project, commercial, contract or change control environments within complex organisations.

Qualifications:

• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or equivalent.
• Project Planning and Controls Foundation level or equivalent.

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.

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 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.

Babcock is 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 experience we might have, 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.