Controller, Manufacturing ​/ Production, Systems Engineer

Job Title

Job Title:
Change Controller

Location:
Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £39,607.00 + Benefits

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

Shape the future of complex engineering programmes that protect the nation

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 Change Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

As a Change Controller, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring that complex engineering projects evolve in a controlled, governed and transparent way. This is an exciting, entry‑level‑plus opportunity within a highly structured project environment, offering exposure to real decision‑making, senior stakeholders and industry‑leading governance frameworks.

Day-to-day, you’ll facilitate controlled changes to the project baseline, ensuring that change is formally assessed, approved, recorded, and implemented in accordance with governance requirements, with full traceability and audit readiness.

• Managing and maintaining accurate change registers, logs and trackers, ensuring full traceability and audit readiness
• Supporting the assessment, approval and implementation of controlled changes, including impacts to scope, cost, schedule and risk
• Maintaining project and programme baselines in line with configuration management and governance requirements
• Producing change‑related reporting, metrics and management insight to highlight trends, risks and decision points
• Contributing to continuous improvement of change control processes within a collaborative Project Controls function

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

• Experience maintaining accurate records, logs or trackers within a governed or controlled environment
• Ability to work autonomously, demonstrating ownership, organisation and accountability
• Competence using Microsoft Excel and digital document management systems
• Ability to communicate clearly with internal stakeholders through reports, briefings or written updates
• Awareness of project, commercial, contract or change control environments within complex organisations

• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification or equivalent
• Project Planning and Controls Foundation level or equivalent

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 -  ()

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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 email car 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: 04/02/2026