Programme Controls Manager

Hinkley Point C; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP & health check program

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists: 10 days special paid leave

Be Kind Day paid leave

Development opportunities & wellbeing

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Programme Controls Manager to provide strategic leadership for the MEH Alliance on the Hinkley Point C project, near Bridgwater, Somerset. This permanent role is 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with flexible working arrangements.

You will lead controls activities, establish governance and reporting, and develop a high-performing team to deliver schedule, cost, risk and forecasting performance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading programme controls teams in regulated industries.
• Experience governing, reporting and performance frameworks.
• Experience overseeing schedule, cost, risk and forecasting processes.
• Able to provide assurance, insight and performance analysis to senior leadership.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive continuous improvement in complex programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and integrate programme controls activities across the MEH Alliance programme.
• Establish governance frameworks, reporting cycles and controls standards.
• Lead schedule, cost, risk, change and forecasting reviews.
• Develop, mentor and resource a high-performing programme controls team.
• Produce programme performance reports and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Programme controls leadership

Governance & reporting

Schedule, cost, risk & forecasting

Leadership & mentoring

Continuous improvement

Education

Degree in Engineering or Project Management

Job description

As a Programme Controls Manager, you'll provide strategic leadership across one of the United Kingdom's most important nuclear infrastructure programmes. This is a permanent role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point C. Flexible working arrangements are available. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

Responsibilities

• Leading and integrating programme controls activities across the MEH Alliance programme.
• Establishing and maintaining programme controls standards, governance frameworks and reporting cycles.
• Leading schedule, cost, risk, change and forecasting reviews to drive programme performance.
• Developing, mentoring and resourcing a high-performing programme controls team.
• Producing programme performance reports and driving continuous improvement across programme controls capability.

Essential experience of the Programme Controls Manager

• Extensive experience leading project or programme controls teams within a highly regulated industry.
• Strong experience managing programme governance, reporting and performance frameworks.
• Demonstrable experience overseeing schedule, cost, risk, change and forecasting processes.
• Experience providing assurance, insight and performance analysis to senior leadership teams.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive continuous improvement within complex programme environments.

Qualifications for the Programme Controls Manager

• Degree 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)

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 Programme 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.

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.