Senior Project Controller

Nuclearinst; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life

Digital GP

Share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional fees

Leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Wellbeing programme

Job summary

Babcock International in Rosyth is seeking a Senior Project Controller to lead the Project Controls team across multiple workstreams on high-impact nuclear manufacturing projects.

You will develop and maintain integrated schedules (Levels 1-4), define control structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS) and ensure alignment between Primavera P6, Cobra and IFS for cost and schedule tracking. This role offers hybrid working and clear career progression.

Qualifications

• Experience with project controls and scheduling across multiple workstreams.
• Knowledge of earned value management concepts and rules of credit.
• Experience across full project lifecycles from bid to closeout.
• Experience in building integrated schedules and project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
• Experience applying forensic planning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Project Controls team across multiple workstreams.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (Levels 1-4) to support delivery.
• Define, implement and manage project control structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS).
• Ensure alignment between Primavera P6, Cobra and IFS for cost and schedule tracking.
• Provide regular schedule updates, metrics and analysis informing performance.

Skills

Primavera P6

Earned value mgmt

Full lifecycle

WBS/OBS/CBS

Forensic planning

Tools

Cobra

IFS Level 5

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Controller

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70830

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 is 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.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules (Levels 1-4) to support successful project delivery.
• Define, implement and manage project control structures including WBS, OBS, RBS and CBS.
• 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. 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

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 [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.

Closing date: 04/05/2026