Job Title: Project Controls Engineer
Location: Aztec West, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72658
Shape the Future of UK Energy on One of the Country’s Most Important Infrastructure Programmes.
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 Controls Engineer, at our Aztec West, Bristol site.
The role
As a Project Controls Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of the Sizewell C programme, one of the UK’s largest and most high‑profile infrastructure projects. This is not routine reporting - it’s an opportunity to bring clarity, confidence and control to a nationally significant project that will impact generations to come.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Maintain accurate cost and schedule data within project controls systems
- Prepare monthly reports aligned to governance and business reporting cycles
- Support cost forecasting, estimating and schedule development, including assumptions
- Contribute to risk management activities, impact analysis and cost modelling
- Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across engineering, commercial and delivery teams
This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week, based at our Stoke Gifford, Bristol site. Hybrid working patterns are available. You will work a minimum of two days on site.
Essential experience of the Project Controls Engineer:
- Previous experience within project controls, cost engineering or finance
- A working understanding of planning, cost engineering, estimating or risk concepts
- Experience supporting projects in regulated or complex environments
- Confidence working with data, reporting and assurance processes
- The ability to collaborate effectively with multi‑disciplinary stakeholders
Qualifications for the Project Controls Engineer:
- Graduate‑level qualification or equivalent professional experience (essential)
- Professional development in project controls, cost management or planning (advantageous)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- 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.
- ‘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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
Join us and discover how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 17/05/2026
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