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Plymouth

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About this role

Job Title:                      Change Controller

Location:                      Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £39,607.00 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70993

 

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.

 

The role

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.

 

Essential experience of the Change Controller

  • 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

 

Qualifications for the Change Controller

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

 

Security Clearance

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 - 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 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 [email protected] 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

Other facts

Tech stack
Record Keeping,Change Management,Microsoft Excel,Digital Document Management,Communication,Project Management,Governance,Audit Readiness,Continuous Improvement,Stakeholder Engagement

About Babcock

Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.

Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.

There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.

Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

What you'll do

  • As a Change Controller, you will facilitate controlled changes to project baselines and ensure that changes are formally assessed and implemented according to governance requirements. You will also manage change registers and produce change-related reporting to highlight trends and risks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does a Change Controller do at Babcock?

As a Change Controller at Babcock, you will: as a Change Controller, you will facilitate controlled changes to project baselines and ensure that changes are formally assessed and implemented according to governance requirements. You will also manage change registers and produce change-related reporting to highlight trends and risks..

Why join Babcock as a Change Controller?

Babcock is a leading Defense and Space Manufacturing company.

Is the Change Controller position at Babcock remote?

The Change Controller position at Babcock is based in Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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