Project Controls Manager

Babcock International Group; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering organization in the UK is seeking a Project Controls Manager. You will oversee governance and management of project controls across high-impact projects while building relationships with stakeholders. This full-time role offers hybrid working arrangements and requires proven experience in project controls and governance. Security clearance is required for this position.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on delivery experience applying project controls.
• Confident communicator who can simplify complex problems.
• Knowledge of project controls practices.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.
• Lead project controls governance to align with contract requirements.
• Manage the Performance Measurement Baseline effectively.
• Supervise scheduling teams for integrated project scheduling.
• Oversee cost and risk management activities.
• Implement and maintain an effective Earned Value Management system.

Skills

Project controls

Governance measures

Communication

Planning/scheduling management

Cost management

Risk management

Performance management

Change management

Tools

MSP

P6

RiskHive

ERP

SAP

Job description

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

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.

• 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.
• 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.

Our Project Controls Manager roles are full time at 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements withup 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

• Proven hands-on delivery experience applying project controls and governance measures on complex/major projects or programmes.
• 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.

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

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 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.