Senior Project Controller

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Rosyth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for Reserv

Holiday Trading option

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Project Controller for its Rosyth site, offering a hybrid working arrangement. You will lead planning, scheduling, earned value management and project controls to support the successful delivery of major projects in a complex engineering environment.

The role requires Primavera P6 expertise, advanced scheduling skills, and the ability to produce performance metrics and reports for informed decision making. This is a senior permanent role, 36 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience in project planning, project controls or a closely related field.
• Evidence of professional knowledge and experience gained through industry practice.
• Professional accreditation or recognition from a relevant industry or professional body is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of Cobra and IFS systems is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Developing, baselining and maintaining integrated project schedules across multiple planning levels.
• Defining and maintaining project control structures including work breakdown, organisational and cost breakdown structures.
• Ensuring alignment between Primavera P6, project control systems and company financial and material planning tools.
• Producing schedule analysis, performance metrics, critical path assessments and project reporting to support informed decision-making.
• Supporting project teams with earned value management activities, forecasting and project performance monitoring.

Skills

Primavera P6

Earned Value Management

Project controls

Scheduling

Forensic planning

Education

Degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Cobra

IFS

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Senior Project Controller

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Project Controller

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74825

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 aSenior Project Controller, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll use your expertise in project planning, scheduling, earned value management and project controls to support the successful delivery of major projects. This is a senior-level position offering the opportunity to work on highly complex programmes while continuing to develop your professional expertise within a globally recognised engineering organisation.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Developing, baselining and maintaining integrated project schedules across multiple planning levels.
• Defining and maintaining project control structures including work breakdown, organisational and cost breakdown structures.
• Ensuring alignment between Primavera P6, project control systems and company financial and material planning tools.
• Producing schedule analysis, performance metrics, critical path assessments and project reporting to support informed decision-making.
• Supporting project teams with earned value management activities, forecasting and project performance monitoring.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based at Rosyth with hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Controller

• Demonstrable experience in project planning and network scheduling within complex engineering, defence, infrastructure or major project environments.
• Advanced knowledge and practical experience of Primavera P6.
• Experience applying Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques and performance measurement methodologies.
• Working knowledge of project control processes and integrated planning principles.
• Experience in forensic planning, schedule analysis and project performance reporting.

Qualifications for the Senior Project Controller

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience in project planning, project controls or a closely related field.
• Evidence of professional knowledge and experience gained through industry practice.
• Professional accreditation or recognition from a relevant industry or professional body is advantageous
• Working knowledge of Cobra and IFS systems 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

• 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 [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.