Project Controls Manager

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A defence and engineering company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead project controls and ensure quality delivery of high-impact projects. You will supervise scheduling teams, manage costs, and build relationships with stakeholders. The role requires excellent communication skills and proven experience in project controls on complex projects. Offering a competitive salary and generous benefits, this full-time position promotes hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Professional fees payment

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering work

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Organised, confident communicator and self-motivated.
• Ability to transform complex problems into simple solutions.
• Proven hands-on delivery experience on complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the Performance Measurement Baseline.
• Supervise scheduling teams for project schedules.
• Oversee cost, change, risk, opportunity, and document management.
• Maintain an Earned Value Management system.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Project controls approaches and practices

Planning / Scheduling Management

Cost Management

Risk Management and Analysis

Change Management

Configuration Control

MSP/P6

RiskHive

ERP/SAP systems

Communication

Job description

Job Title: Project Controls Manager
Location: Corsham or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 64781

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 Ashton Vale, Bristol or Corsham, Wiltshire sites.

The Role

We have multiple Project Controls Managers opportunities within our Mission Systems business, where innovation meets impact. Mission Systems delivers advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems to state‑of‑the‑art communications and weapons handling technologies across land, sea and air.

Day to day, you’ll work closely with Project and Programme Managers while leading a dynamic team of project controls professionals, driving the delivery of cost, time, risk, and quality controls across some of the UK’s most exciting and high‑impact projects.

• Define and manage the Performance Measurement Baseline (scope, cost, schedule) with robust oversight.
• Supervise scheduling teams to develop and maintain integrated project schedules across all execution phases, including subcontractor coordination.
• Oversee cost, change, risk, opportunity, and document management activities.
• Implement and maintain a reliable Earned Value Management system, delivering actionable insights through accurate reporting to support informed decision‑making.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, suppliers, and customers alike, ensuring seamless coordination and successful project outcomes in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment.
• Lead and uphold project controls governance, ensuring alignment with contract requirements.

Our Project Controls Manager roles are full time at 37 hours per week and provide hybrid working arrangements with up to 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home. We have opportunities available at either our Ashton Vale, Bristol or Corsham, Wiltshire site.

Essential experience of the Project Controls Manager

• An organised, confident communicator who also is self‑motivated and the ability to transform complex problems into simple, elegant solutions.
• Knowledge of project controls approaches and practices, such as planning / scheduling management, cost management, risk management and analysis, performance management, change management and configuration control.
• Experience in working with common project controls toolsets, such as MSP/P6, RiskHive, ERP/SAP systems.
• Proven hands‑on delivery experience applying project controls and governance measures on complex/major projects or programmes.

Qualifications for the Project Controls Manager

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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.

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