Job Title: Project Controller
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of Nuclear Projects
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Controller at our Bristol site.
The role
As aProject Controller, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of delivering complex and critical projects that support energy security and national protection. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact—helping to ensure projects run efficiently and effectively while developing your expertise in project controls and performance management.
Day-to-day, you will
1. Support Project Managers and Project Controls Managers with weekly and monthly performance reports, analysis, and narrative.
2. Carry out variance and trend analysis for schedule and cost, supporting recovery plans where needed.
3. Collate and analyse Earned Value Management data and produce associated narratives.
4. Assist with Estimate at Completion (EAC), monthly performance, and risk reviews.
5. Maintain project databases, trackers, templates, and documentation to ensure accuracy and consistency.
You’ll work 37 hours per week, based at BTC Bristol (with at least two days onsite per week). Flexible working patterns are available, including core hours and an early finish on Fridays. Occasional travel to Warrington, Cheshire (quarterly) may be required.
Essential experience of the Project Controller:
6. Planning awareness, preferably with Primavera P6.
7. Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
8. Knowledge of Baseline Management, Change Control, and Earned Value Management.
9. Excellent communication skills and experience working in integrated teams.
10. Familiarity with project management toolsets such as SAP, Risk Hive, or Primavera.
Qualifications for the Project Controller:
11. We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of