Project Controller

Location

Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Project Controller

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £39,237 - £46,064 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74275

Shape the future of complex engineering projects

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 Controller at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Project Controller, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role at the heart of complex engineering programmes within our Marine business. You’ll 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.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

Developing and maintaining integrated project schedules and baseline budgets

Managing risk and opportunity registers, driving mitigation and improvement actions

Supporting cost control, forecasting, and performance reporting activities

Implementing and maintaining change management processes in line with contract requirements

Collaborating with stakeholders across project teams to ensure alignment and delivery success

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

Essential experience of the Project Controller

Demonstrating experience in project controls or project management within a relevant sector

Working within a multidisciplinary team environment to deliver projects

Applying project controls tools and techniques, including performance analysis and reporting

Understanding project lifecycle management and delivery methodologies

Showing awareness of common contract frameworks such as NEC or similar

Qualifications for the Project Controller

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.

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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 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. 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

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 [email protected] 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: 07/07/2026

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