Nuclear Restoration Services
Project Controls Manager
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Are you an experienced project controls professional who enjoys bringing clarity, structure and confidence to complex programmes?
This 12-month fixed-term contract will place you at the centre of a major transformation portfolio, supporting the successful delivery of projects worth tens of millions of pounds. Working across multiple projects and programmes, you'll provide the insight, oversight and controls needed to help teams stay on track and give leaders confidence in delivery performance.
You'll work closely with project and programme teams to monitor progress, challenge performance where needed, identify emerging risks and ensure robust controls are in place across the portfolio.
What will you be doing?
You'll play a key role in providing oversight and control across a major transformation portfolio, helping ensure projects remain on track against agreed scope, cost, schedule and risk commitments.
Working closely with project and programme teams, you'll monitor performance, identify emerging issues and provide clear insight that supports effective decision-making. You'll help maintain consistency across portfolio controls activities, ensuring leaders have accurate information and a clear understanding of delivery performance.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide oversight of project and portfolio performance, monitoring progress against scope, cost, schedule and risk baselines.
- Identify trends, variances and emerging risks, providing timely insight to support programme and portfolio decision-making.
- Oversee change control, governance processes and performance reporting across a portfolio of transformation projects.
- Work closely with project teams, planners and stakeholders to maintain robust project controls and improve delivery confidence.
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Who are we looking for?
You'll bring strong project controls experience gained within complex project, programme or portfolio environments. You'll understand how planning, cost control, risk management, change control and governance work together to support successful delivery.
Success in this role will come from your ability to build strong relationships, challenge constructively and transform complex information into clear, actionable insight.
We're open to candidates from a variety of sectors. Experience in nuclear is beneficial but not essential. We're keen to hear from people who have worked in other complex, highly regulated or programme-driven environments.
Key requirements:
- Proven experience in project controls, programme controls or portfolio controls environments.
- Strong understanding of scope, cost, schedule, risk and change control processes.
- Experience producing and interpreting performance information to support delivery and governance.
- Ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Experience working with project planning tools and schedules, including Primavera P6 or similar, would be beneficial, but by no means essential.
If you're looking for an opportunity to apply your project controls expertise within a major transformation programme, while helping improve delivery confidence and portfolio performance, we'd love to hear from you.
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Please note: All successful candidates will need to provide proof of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment/education history (typically covering the last 3–5 years) in line with NRS Baseline Security requirements. Some roles may also require full Security Clearance, which involves additional checks. For details, please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) guidance.
At NRS, we value diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from underrepresented groups. We want to ensure you feel supported throughout the application process and provide reasonable adjustments where necessary and requested. If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of your application or interview process, please do not hesitate to let us know.
We offer flexibility on base location for multi-site roles and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
Please note that this vacancy may close earlier than the stated deadline should we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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