Cost Controller

Babcock Canada Inc.; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A defense engineering company located in Bristol is seeking a Cost Controller to oversee cost management for significant defense projects. The ideal candidate should have a degree-level education and experience in cost control or cost management. Responsibilities include analyzing project cost data, producing detailed reports, and collaborating with project leads. This full-time position offers a hybrid working arrangement, with competitive compensation and extensive employee benefits including a pension scheme, health care, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Annual health check through Aviva DigiCare+

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday trading opportunities

Employee assistance programme for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in a cost control or cost management environment.
• Understanding of cost control, earned value, finance, scheduling, or estimating.
• Experience with stakeholder engagement and communication.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cost control across a diverse submarine programme.
• Liaise with project leads to analyze and interpret data.
• Produce cost reports for decision-making.
• Provide analysis and recommendations supported by data.
• Manage cost performance baselines and forecasts.

Skills

Cost control or cost management experience

Understanding of project controls

Strong stakeholder engagement

Proficiency in Excel

Experience with cost management systems (Cobra, Ecosys, SAP)

Education

Degree-level education or APMP qualification

Job description

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £60,429 dependent upon experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70147

Shape the future of defence engineering with us

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 Cost Controller at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a Cost Controller, you’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s most meaningful defence programmes - supporting the safe, continuous operation of critical in‑service submarines. You’ll play a key part in strengthening decision‑making, enhancing performance and ensuring our customer has the insight needed to deliver safely and effectively.

Day-to-day, you’ll play a key role in delivering a diverse and high‑profile portfolio of Planning, Engineering and Design Services (PEDS) to our customer. You’ll work closely with project leads, delivery teams and finance teams, taking ownership of the collation, analysis and presentation of project cost data. Your work will span the full project lifecycle - from scoping and estimating new tasks to monitoring performance, tracking costs, reporting progress and supporting successful project close‑out.

• Delivering cost control across a diverse in‑service submarine programme, working from scoping to close‑out.
• Liaising with Project Leads, activity owners and Accountants to collect, analyse and interpret actuals data.
• Producing multi‑layered internal and external cost reports that drive informed decision‑making.
• Providing clear analysis, recommendations and justifications, supported by meaningful data.
• Managing cost performance baselines, including monitoring actuals, tracking change and coordinating forecasts.

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

Essential experience of the Cost Controller

• Experience in a cost control or cost management environment.
• Understanding of project controls (cost control, earned value, finance, scheduling or estimating).
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability.
• Proficiency in Excel with confident data analysis skills.
• Experience using cost management systems such as Cobra or Ecosys or SAP.

Qualifications for the Cost Controller

• Degree‑level education or an APMP qualification (or equivalent experience).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

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 [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.

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