Project Controls Planner – Primavera P6 Specialist (Nuclear)

Matchtech; Bridgnorth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Matchtech is seeking a Project Controls Engineer / Planner for a UK manufacturing & engineering facility in Chorley, Lancashire. The role focuses on integrating schedule, cost, and resource data using Primavera P6 to drive contract delivery against targets.

You will manage WBS/CBS, produce Earned Value metrics, and support bid-to-execution transitions with NEC3 contracts. Security clearance BPSS is required.

Qualifications

• Formal training and hands-on experience using Primavera P6 (logic links, constraints, coding, resource loading).
• Minimum 5 years of dedicated project controls or planning experience in manufacturing, heavy engineering, or nuclear environments.
• Practical understanding and working experience with NEC3 contracts (NEC4 and MS Project experience are advantageous).
• Proven ability to resource-load schedules at the activity level, maintain spend forecasts (EAC), analyze budgets, and manage baseline changes.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and stakeholder communication skills; Prince2/ITIL qualifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Schedule & Baseline Management: Develop and maintain detailed, resource-loaded project schedules in Primavera P6. Establish WBS and CBS aligned with project scope and contract terms (NEC3/NEC4).
• Earned Value & Performance Reporting: Generate standardized cost and schedule performance metrics and present analysis for internal and external progress updates.
• Progress Tracking & Variance Analysis: Run routine progress updates, identify critical path deviations, perform variance analysis, and communicate schedule impacts to Project Managers and Delivery teams.
• Bid-to-Execution Transition: Partner with Estimators and Bid Managers to develop bid programmes into operational project schedules, ensuring seamless handovers to execution teams.
• Contractual Change Control: Apply formal change management to baselines, showing schedule, cost, and resource impacts of variations.

Skills

Primavera P6

NEC3 contracts

Resource loading

Earned Value

Education

Prince2/ITIL qualifications (desirable)

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Matchtech is seeking a Project Controls Engineer / Planner for a UK manufacturing & engineering facility in Chorley, Lancashire. The role focuses on integrating schedule, cost, and resource data using Primavera P6 to drive contract delivery against targets.

You will manage WBS/CBS, produce Earned Value metrics, and support bid-to-execution transitions with NEC3 contracts. Security clearance BPSS is required.