Job Title: Commissioning Planning Engineer
Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Craft Precision. Shape The Future of Clean Energy.
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 Commissioning Planning Engineer at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset.
The role
As aCommissioning Planning Engineer, you play a central part in one of Europe’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes. This is an opportunity to influence the planning, sequencing, and delivery of major commissioning activities at Hinkley Point C — a project vital to the UK’s long‑term energy security. You will help shape schedule intelligence, guide decision‑making, and work within an environment where your expertise contributes directly to national infrastructure, safety, and clean‑energy progress.
This role offers 37 hours per week and is based at Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset. Set working times are Monday to Friday.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Manage and maintain Level 2/4 schedules within Primavera P6, ensuring accurate, logic‑linked plans.
2. Align contractor schedules with client schedules to maintain programme consistency.
3. Provide data, analysis, and schedule insights that support project and programme leaders.
4. Coordinate and produce project‑level schedule reports and performance dashboards.
5. Engage with delivery teams to identify risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
Essential experience of the Commissioning Planning Engineer
6. Proven experience in a project controls or scheduling role on major construction or infrastructure projects.
7. Strong capability using Primavera P6 to build and analyse detailed construction schedules.
8. Experience producing time‑related insights, schedule reports, or performance dashboards.
9. Experience collaborating across project control disciplines such as cost, risk, or estimating.
10. Ability to interpret complex project data and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Commissioning Planning Engineer
11. Degree or Higher National Diploma in Engineering, Construction, Project Management, or a similar discipline.
12. Professional qualification or chartered status (or working towards).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee share scheme
17. Employee shopping savings portal
18. Payment of Professional Fees
19. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
20. 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.
21. ‘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
22. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
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