Project Controls Graduate - London

Sizewell C Company; City Of London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Sizewell C is offering a Project Controls Graduate Programme in London that spans 2 years with rotating placements across disciplines. You’ll learn from experts, be mentored by a career line manager and buddy, and contribute to performance management in a major UK infrastructure project.

You will gain hands-on experience with stakeholders, data analysis and reporting, while developing technical and professional skills for a career in project controls and the nuclear industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (2:2 or higher) in STEM, Project Controls, Project Management or Business.
• Interest in nuclear energy with strong communication and organisational skills.
• Flexible, agile thinker to succeed in a dynamic project environment.
• Interpersonal skills, integrity and ethical behaviour are important.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders across Project Controls and SZC business.
• Work with Change Managers/Engineers in rotations.
• Contribute to weekly team meetings with updates and knowledge sharing.
• Attend Leadership Team meetings and reporting, e.g., Risk Reviews.
• Support monthly Project Control reporting across Cost, Schedule, Baseline & Change, Risk.
• Participate in data quality, process improvement and automation initiatives.
• Use Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint and Primavera P6 daily for analysis.
• Develop KPIs and monitor performance to inform business decisions.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Strategic mindset

Agile thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Excel

Power BI

PowerPoint

Primavera P6

Job description

About the Role

If you are looking to kick start a career that is rewarding, where you can really make a difference, then come join our Project Controls Graduate Programme. You will become a part of one of the major infrastructure projects in the UK at Sizewell C, powering the nation today whilst helping to build a sustainable energy future for tomorrow.

The Opportunity

Get ready to launch your career with our customised 2-year training programme! You will rotate through exciting placements that are designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to succeed.

You will learn from our experts, gain valuable experience, build your confidence and have the support of a career line manager and placement manager, mentor and buddy throughout your time on the programme.

SZC Project Controls will serve as a centre of excellence, managing and strategically using delivery performance management information. Our team enables successful delivery of SZC Projects through proactive Project Controls that drives forward-looking solutions to continuously improve performance.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Project Controls Graduate at Sizewell C, you will gain hands-on experience working alongside multi discipline teams and our supply chain, develop technical and professional skills, and contribute to meaningful projects that support the UK’s journey to net zero.

Examples of some of the activities/responsibilities done across Project Control rotations (but note this isn’t guaranteed, is based on rotations and business needs at the time):

• Engage with stakeholders across Project Controls and wider SZC business
• Working with existing practitioners in the team (such as Change Managers/Engineers)
• Contributing meaningfully to weekly team meetings, sharing knowledge and updates.
• Attend key Leadership Team meetings such as Risk Reviews and Change Committees followed by subsequent reporting
• Add value to monthly Project Control reporting cycle, managing information from all functions – Cost, Reporting, Schedule, Baseline & Change, Risk.
• Exposure to continuous improvement including data quality, AI adoption, process optimisation, and automation
• Daily use of systems such as Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint and Primavera P6
• Data analysis and presentation into meaningful business change
• KPI development, performance monitoring and reporting
• Thinking critically to solve problems with a meticulous attention to detail

Your Work Location

Whilst you will be based at our Sizewell C office in London with placements of up to 6 months, you may also be required to travel to another location for your placements, to support other business units and to expand your knowledge and experience of the Nuclear Industry.

Please note that this programme is rotational in its nature, so you will be required to move around.

Who You Are

• To be eligible for this Sizewell C graduate programme, you will need to have achieved, or be expecting to achieve, a bachelor’s degree (2:2 or higher) in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths), Project Controls, Project Management or Business disciplines
• We are looking for people with a genuine interest in nuclear energy, strong communication and organisational skills, and have a strategic mindset that brings innovative ideas.
• You will need to be open minded, flexible and have an agile way of thinking to succeed in a dynamic fast paced project environment.
• Effective interpersonal skills are key, as well as being able to demonstrate high ethical behaviour, integrity, humility, and character.

Power in Diversity

Sizewell C is a great place to work. Our ambition is to have a workforce which reflects and benefits the society we are part of and serve. Everyone working at Sizewell C, wherever they are, should help to create and experience the right environment where everyone on the team understands, respects and embraces diversity with a culture where everyone is treated with equal respect and are all given equal access to opportunities. By valuing the different points of view and experiences that having a diverse team brings, and by fostering an inclusive climate, we will create a great place to work.

This aligns to our key values:

Be Your Best

Mastery, learning and standards

• We grow expertise and share knowledge across the programme
• We uphold standards as a collective commitment, not a compliance exercise
• We learn from near misses and mistakes and apply those lessons
• We take quality seriously, even when pace and pressure increase

Be True

Truth, courage and stewardship

• We surface risks early, including those that are difficult to raise
• We name trade-offs openly rather than smoothing them over
• We treat bad news as valuable information
• We make decisions based on long term stewardship, not short-term convenience

Be Together

Partnership, fairness and share ownership

• We listen in ways that lead to visible change
• We hold accountability fairly and consistently
• We include others early, before decisions are made
• We solve problems collectively across boundaries

Security Vetting

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

• Alongside a starting salary of £35,000 per annum, potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days and more.

About the Company

Join us and find your success at Sizewell C!

When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.

At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.