About the role

The Project Controls Manager will lead the production of integrated performance reports and analyze trends, variances, and KPIs to identify risks and forecast impacts. They will also coordinate reporting inputs across delivery teams and improve reporting effectiveness through automation and standardization.

What they look for

Project controls Performance reporting Data analysis Variance reporting Trend analysis Change control management Dashboard development Risk management Stakeholder management Project lifecycle management Automation Digital reporting tools Engineering Project management

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive experience in project controls and reporting environments, along with strong skills in producing dashboards for senior stakeholders. A degree in Engineering or Project Management is required, and the candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance Matched contribution pension scheme Life assurance Digital GP Annual health check Nutritional consultations Employee share scheme Employee shopping savings portal Payment of professional fees Special paid leave for reservists Holiday trading Be Kind Day Employee assistance programme

Full description

Job Title: Project Controls Manager

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 75861

Turn Complex Project Data into Decisions That Shape the Future of Clean Energy

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Controls Manager at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

The role

As a Proejct Controls Manager, you’ll lead the delivery of accurate, timely and insight-driven performance reporting across a major clean energy programme.

This is a permanent role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

Leading the production of accurate, integrated weekly and monthly performance reports.

Analysing trends, variances and key performance indicators to identify risks, opportunities and forecast impacts.

Coordinating reporting inputs across delivery teams, functions and alliance partners.

Developing integrated dashboards covering schedule, cost, progress, productivity, risk and change metrics.

Improving reporting effectiveness through standardisation, automation and digital reporting tools.

Essential experience of the Project Controls Manager

Extensive experience within project controls, programme controls or project reporting environments.

Strong experience producing performance reports, dashboards and management information for senior stakeholders.

Experience using project controls toolsets, including performance analysis, variance reporting, trend analysis and change control management.

Experience working with enterprise project controls systems and reporting platforms.

Full project lifecycle experience from project initiation through to completion.

Qualifications for the Project Controls Manager

Degree qualified in Engineering or Project Management.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. 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 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 Cavendish 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.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 24/09/2026

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