Project Controller
// Role Summary
Project Controllers are sought to bring structure, insight, and control to critical engineering programmes within Babcock's Marine business, ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget. This is a vital role in national defence and infrastructure.
// Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules and budgets.
- Manage risk and opportunity registers, driving mitigation actions.
- Support cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting.
- Implement change management processes in line with contractual requirements.
- Requires experience in project controls or management, and collaboration within multidisciplinary teams.
- Must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Project Controller at Babcock's Rosyth site, you will play a vital role at the heart of complex engineering programmes within our Marine business. You will bring structure, insight, and control to projects that are critical to national defence and infrastructure, ensuring delivery is on time, on budget, and aligned with business and contractual requirements.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain integrated project schedules and baseline budgets.
- Manage risk and opportunity registers, driving mitigation and improvement actions.
- Support cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting activities.
- Implement and maintain change management processes in line with contract requirements.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across project teams to ensure alignment and delivery success.
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated experience in project controls or project management within a relevant sector.
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team environment to deliver projects.
- Proficiency in applying project controls tools and techniques, including performance analysis and reporting.
- Understanding of project lifecycle management and delivery methodologies.
- Awareness of common contract frameworks such as NEC or similar.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, project management, construction management or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- APM Project Management Fundamentals Qualification or willingness to achieve within 12 months.
- Professional membership or accreditation such as APM, Association of Cost Engineers, or Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is advantageous.
- Postgraduate qualification is desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Please note that many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Your eligibility may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and residency.
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance.
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations.
- Employee shopping savings portal.
- Payment of Professional Fees.
- Special paid leave for Reservists in the armed forces.
- Holiday Trading options.
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering.