At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex projects in defence engineering and manage project control structures.
- Company: Join Babcock, a global leader in defence and engineering.
- Benefits: Generous holiday allowance, matched pension scheme, and health support.
- Other info: Hybrid working options and excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security and the UK's low-carbon future.
- Qualifications: Experience in project controls and familiarity with Primavera P6 required.
The predicted salary is between 56570 - 66229 £ per year.
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: 56,570 - 66,229 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Lead Complex Projects That Shape the Future of Defence Engineering
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 Senior Project Controller at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Senior Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role within our Advanced Manufacturing Team as part of an integrated project team delivering new, high-impact manufacturing projects within the nuclear sector. This is a chance to apply your expertise to projects that underpin national security, contribute to the UK's low-carbon future, and support some of the most complex engineering programmes in the country.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Lead and develop the Project Controls team across multiple workstreams.
- Define, implement and manage project control structures including WBS, OBS, RBS and CBS.
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (Levels 1–4) to support successful project delivery.
- Ensure alignment between key project control tools, including Primavera P6, Cobra and IFS, for accurate schedule, cost and material requirement tracking.
- Provide regular schedule updates, metrics and analysis, including critical path and resource/cost-loaded forecasts that inform financial and delivery performance.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Controller
- Experience using Primavera P6 in a project planning or project controls environment.
- Understanding of earned value management techniques and rules of credit.
- Experience working across full project lifecycles, from bid through to closeout.
- Experience with integrated scheduling and project structure development (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
- Experience applying forensic planning techniques.
Qualifications for the Senior Project Controller
- Relevant professional experience in project controls, planning, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience using Cobra (training can be provided) - Desirable
- Working knowledge of IFS to Level 5 - Desirable
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
- 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 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 International
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: 24/08/2026
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