Lead Project Controls Manager - Wylfa in Wales

Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) is searching for a dynamic and influential Lead Project Control Manager to take the helm across a portfolio of complex, mission‑critical decommissioning programmes. This is your opportunity to provide the business intelligence and analytic backbone for a combination of site project portfolios – supporting the management of scope, schedule cost and risk to enable effective delivery.

As a senior figure in project controls, you’ll champion excellence across business planning, sanction, risk, performance measurement, business intelligence and PMO evolution, while developing and empowering a talented team of Project Control Managers and practitioners. Working as a trusted partner to senior personnel, you’ll bring sharp insight, confident challenge and unwavering assurance to enable safe, predictable and value‑driven delivery across the region.

As an integral part of the Portfolio Controls team, you’ll lead the implementation, monitoring, analysis and reporting of agreed project controls methods and metrics across a portfolio of projects (often tens of £millions within the financial year and over the lifecycle). You’ll ensure project and programme insights are visible, trusted and translated into action—working closely with Site leadership, corporate leadership and project teams.

This is also a leadership role across the PCM community working alongside other Lead Project Control Managers where you will manage other Project Controls Managers and their teams as identified, drive consistency and improvements, and deputise for the Head of Portfolio Controls as required.

What will you be doing

As a Lead Project Control Manager (LPCM), you will hold regional leadership accountability for the project controls function, directly managing Project Control Managers (PCMs) and leading the planning and cost engineering resources for your identified portfolio. You will set clear expectations and standards, ensuring consistency, quality and integrity of project controls outputs across multiple sites and programmes. Your role includes overseeing baseline and change management, assuring the credibility of forecasts and performance data, and providing portfolio‑level insight to highlight systemic risks, emerging trends and cross‑cutting opportunities.

You will offer independent challenge to support business cases, sanction decisions and key governance processes, while ensuring planning, cost control, earned value, risk and reporting disciplines are effectively integrated across the region.

Alongside leading your team, you will be responsible for developing capability through resource planning, coaching, succession planning and performance management, while driving continuous improvement and standardisation across the Project Controls community. You will act as a trusted escalation point for issues that cannot be resolved at site level, and you will support senior stakeholders on strategic commercial or contractual matters with regional impact.

Collaboration with other Lead PCMs will be key to managing organisational priorities and capacity, and you will deputise for the Head of Portfolio Controls when required, playing a pivotal role in strengthening performance and ensuring safe, predictable and value‑driven delivery across the portfolio.

This role will lead the project control requirements in Wales (Trawsfynydd and Wylfa) and lead, manage and support other corporate project control requirements, such as at Dounreay, in accordance with the portfolio demand. This role will require frequent travel to sites across Wales, Dounreay and the wider fleet as required.

Who we are looking for

We’re looking for a confident and credible leader with deep technical expertise in project controls and the ability to influence at senior levels while effectively supporting and managing their team. You will bring significant experience working within complex delivery environments, with a strong command of planning, cost control, risk management, change control and contract management.

Your communication and influencing skills will be vital, enabling you to clarify expectations, challenge constructively and support recovery actions where performance is at risk. You’ll also be highly analytical, able to turn data into meaningful insight and action, while providing calm, authoritative leadership in fast‑moving or high‑pressure situations.

To thrive in this role you’ll demonstrate proven leadership or supervisory experience alongside recognised professional qualifications or the ability to evidence equivalent capability. Essential qualifications include one or more of the following: IEng (Engineering Council), ICostE/ECostE (Association of Cost Engineers), ECITB Level 6 Diploma in Advanced Project Controls, APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ), IOSH Working Safely, or active membership of a relevant professional body. A strong commitment to continuing professional development is also important, ensuring your knowledge remains current within an evolving technical and regulatory landscape.

Together, these skills and qualifications will equip you to be a trusted, influential and highly effective Lead Project Control Manager.

Please note the role requires some travel to NRS sites that fall within your region and you may be required to support site emergency arrangements, subject to training and fitness standards.