Senior Project Controls Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Controls Manager - Submarines
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £74,900 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56551

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 Controls Manager - Submarines at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Senior Project Controls Manager - Submarines, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. It will be your responsibility to ensure overall control, governance, and direction for the Project Controls Function within the Submarines Business Area.

Day-to-day, it will be your responsibility to lead and manage a Project Controls function within Submarines. This is to ensure adherence to a common set of practices, principles and templates for projects, portfolios or programmes, in order to ensure tracking of project status for all projects and supporting the major programmes in their delivery.

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining Project Controls governance, processes and procedures across all submarines projects
• Ensure the teams establish and maintain the project baseline effectively
• Manage Project Controls teams to provide cost management, change management, risk and opportunity management
• Provision of regular reporting to the project to provide relevant, accurate and reliable information on the status and forecast of the project
• Responsibility for managing the supply and demand of Project Controls resources in the submarines business area.

This role is full time 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 - 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Senior Project Controls Manager - Submarines

• Extensive experience in a similar environment/business sector
• Managed Project Controls of varying type and significant complexity: including varying products, services, across all phases of the lifecycle.
• Awareness of various contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC/NEC3/JCT etc.)
• Full project lifecycle experience from bid phase through to close out.
• Have expert knowledge of Project Controls toolsets
• Experience of leading Project Controls teams in a matrix organisation

Qualifications for the Senior Project Controls Manager - Submarines

• Ideally a bachelor's degree in engineering/project/construction management or a related field
• Postgraduate qualification - Desirable
• Membership in a professional body - Desirable
• Project planning and controls practitioner - Desirable
• Project Fundamentals Qualification - Desirable

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC).

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.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Opportunities to develop your career.

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 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: 17/04/2024