Senior Project Controls Engineer (Cost and Planning)

About the role

Amentum is recruiting a Senior Project Controls Engineer (cost and planning dual role) for its Energy Engineering and Technical Services team, supporting projects across the UK. The post is accountable to the Operations Manager and has no direct reports. It sits within a framework supporting the UK's nuclear power stations and their decommissioning, working alongside Subject Matter Experts, Operations Managers and the Framework Service team. The role can be based at any UK Amentum office and may involve occasional business travel to UK sites or stations.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and manage schedules that incorporate risk, change, resource requirements and cost in line with Amentum requirements and standards.
• Provide cost management support to Framework teams and monitor, control and forecast costs throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain and control project baselines and establish robust Work Breakdown and Project Control structures in line with investment delivery processes, templates and procedures.
• Capture project budgetary costs and resources in the plan to determine time phasing of expenditure and the total project budget.
• Monitor, control and analyse the project programme and cost information using Earned Value methodologies.
• Integrate third-party schedules and data into the overall project plan.
• Produce monthly reports to an agreed reporting cycle, communicating well at all levels of management.

Required profile

• Minimum of HNC/HND, ideally in an engineering discipline, or relevant experience.
• Breadth of experience across the whole project and programme lifecycle, for example engineering, procurement, construction and installation/commissioning.
• Understanding of the relationship between time, cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• Experience reconciling cost information against programmes of work.
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the UK and to communicate clearly at all management levels.

Required skills

• Proficiency in the latest version of Primavera.
• Estimating, scheduling, programming, risk tools and Earned Value Analysis.
• Knowledge of investment delivery processes, templates and procedures.

What we offer

• Competitive package including free single medical cover and digital GP service for UK employees.
• Enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes.
• Reimbursement towards professional development and memberships.
• Collectively programme with matched funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid, part-time and flexible hours and locations.