Project Controls Specialists - Planning, Cost & Risk

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading firm in project controls specializing in Planning, Cost, or Risk roles. You will contribute to high-value projects across sectors, ensuring your expertise shapes the delivery of complex work. Enjoy permanent roles with a competitive salary and excellent growth opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Excellent support for growth, training, and development

Exposure to high-value, high-complexity projects

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls, focusing on planning, cost, or risk.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to adapt planning according to project needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
• Translate project activities into financial impacts and assist in decision making.
• Shape project risk strategies and mitigate potential issues proactively.

Skills

Planning

Cost Control

Risk Management

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

@Risk

Primavera Risk Analysis

Job description

Job Description

Project Controls Careers – Planning, Cost or Risk Specialists

Ready to escape the one-size-fits-all approach to project controls?

Whether you are a planner who wants more than just firefighting, a cost specialist looking for depth, or a risk analyst tired of being sidelined, we want to hear from you. This is not a generic role and you are not a generic candidate.

Our clients are actively looking for professionals who want to go deeper into their craft. These are roles where your specialism is respected and your input carries weight. You will join supportive teams that value rigour, challenge, and smart thinking. This is project controls done properly.

Planning – Where Delivery Starts

You know the difference between a sequence and a strategy. Your schedules are more than logic-linked boxes. In this environment, you will work closely with project leads to build, refine, and drive plans that set the tempo for everything else.

You might use Primavera P6, MS Project or another platform. What matters here is your ability to interrogate, adapt, and maintain a schedule that reflects reality and can withstand scrutiny.

Cost – Where Precision Pays Off

Good cost control is not just about numbers. It is about translating activity into financial reality and helping senior leaders make informed choices. If you know your way around earned value, baselines, and change management, there is space for you to step into something more complex and more rewarding.

You will work on a mix of projects, often in regulated sectors where accuracy is critical and cost performance is under the spotlight.

Risk – Where Strategy Meets Foresight

You will not just be updating a risk register. Here, you will shape how projects plan, monitor, and mitigate the things that can derail progress. Whether through quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo simulation or qualitative frameworks, your thinking will matter.

You will have tools such as @Risk or Primavera Risk Analysis at your disposal. What is more important is your mindset – proactive, curious, and unafraid to challenge assumptions.

What’s on Offer

• Permanent positions

• £50,000 to £70,000 basic salary depending on experience

• Exposure to high-value, high-complexity projects across sectors

• Excellent support for growth, training, and development

• Teams that understand the importance of each discipline

• Roles available across Southern England, with hybrid opportunities in Manchester

If you have a strong foundation in any one of these areas, there is room here to deepen your expertise and influence how complex work gets delivered.