Project Controls Manager in Helensburgh

Location: Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Shape the future of critical national infrastructure. 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 HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The Role

As a Project Controls Manager, you’ll have a pivotal leadership role within the Infrastructure Project Delivery Directorate, supporting a major programme of infrastructure investment at HMNB Clyde. This newly created position is designed to strengthen how we plan, forecast, control and report across a complex, multi‑stakeholder estate.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Lead the Infrastructure Project Delivery controls, reporting and systems function
• Partner with internal teams and customer stakeholders to align reporting and contractual requirements
• Maintain the baseline, manage change control processes, and keep robust records
• Deliver robust forecasts and performance reporting, providing financial and risk insights across programmes
• Drive assurance activity, audits and continuous improvement initiatives
• Manage payment release and receipt processes while embedding Babcock’s people and leadership principles

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday, and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience in project and systems controls within complex programme environments
• A proven ability to shape, develop and lead a project controls function
• Creating a data‑driven culture, centralized, real‑time monitoring, interactive drive‑down and automated reporting
• Strong working knowledge of project controls tools such as Excel, Power BI, Primavera 6 and riskHive
• Experience leading and directing teams in a senior professional capacity
• An adaptable, solutions‑focused approach within evolving programme landscapes

Qualifications

• A recognised project management qualification (such as APM PMQ) and full membership of APM
• A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in project controls
• Chartered membership of APM is desirable
• A Level 5 (or above) Leadership and Management qualification is desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many 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 shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – UK Babcock employees can buy additional leave or 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’re Babcock – a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. 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.