Assistant Change Control Specialist

Babcock Canada Inc.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is seeking an Assistant Change Control Specialist to manage change across critical defense projects. Responsibilities include maintaining change control trackers, evaluating impacts, and collaborating with stakeholders. Essential qualifications include a degree and strong IT skills in Microsoft applications. The position offers a hybrid work model with excellent benefits, including a pension scheme, professional fees payment, and development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience engaging a range of stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with detailed information.
• Understanding of project management principles is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage change control trackers and registers.
• Evaluate impact of change on scope, time, cost.
• Report insights for governance forums.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Self-motivated

Strong IT skills

Education

Degree (or equivalent experience)

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Change Control Specialist

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70744

Engineer change that safeguards the nation — and your future.

The role

As an Assistant Change Control Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. It involves helping manage and govern change across the Submarine Disposal and Dismantling Programme within our Naval Nuclear business. Your work will keep complex projects on track—safeguarding scope, schedule and cost—while contributing to programmes of national importance in defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll own the day‑to‑day management of change control trackers and registers (e.g. the change register).

• Evaluate the impact of change on scope, time and cost, supporting robust decision‑making.
• Maintain and update baselines to protect an accurate performance management baseline.
• Report insights clearly, supporting governance and senior stakeholder forums.
• Collaborate across project teams and project controls in a matrix environment.

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 Assistant Change Control Specialist

• Proven experience engaging a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Self‑motivated and comfortable working with detailed information.
• Strong IT skills, especially Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Understanding of project management and project controls principles and language (desirable).

Qualifications for the Assistant Change Control Specialist

• Essential: Degree (or equivalent experience).
• Desirable: APM Project Planning and Control (PPC); APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ); Membership of a relevant professional body (or willingness to obtain), e.g. APM.

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

• 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

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 [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.