Trainee Project Controls – Project Planner

Trainee Project Controls – Project Planner

Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) via AMS Skills Creation

Location: Sites may include Hunterston, Dungeness, Sizewell, Winfrith or Trawsfynydd.

Launch Your Career in Project Controls and Project Planning

Are you organised, analytical, and interested in how major projects are planned and delivered?

Whether you're a recent graduate, career changer, veteran, or looking to reskill, this is an exciting opportunity to start a career in Project Controls and Planning through the AMS Skills Creation Recruit, Train, Deploy Programme.

You'll join a structured pathway supporting Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS), helping deliver some of the UK's most important nuclear decommissioning and infrastructure projects.

The Opportunity

Begin with 10 weeks of fully funded virtual training, designed to equip you with the skills needed to succeed as a Project Controls Planner.

Training includes: Project Controls Fundamentals, Planning & Scheduling, Risk Management and more.

Following successful completion, you'll be deployed into a Project Controls Planner role supporting live projects across NRS.

No previous Project Controls experience is required – just curiosity, commitment, and a willingness to learn.

The Role

As a Trainee Project Controls Planner, you'll help keep major projects on track by supporting planning, scheduling, reporting, forecasting, and risk management activities.

Working alongside Project Managers, Engineers, and Project Controls specialists, you will:

• Support project planning and scheduling activities
• Monitor progress and produce performance reports
• Identify risks, issues, and potential delays
• Support forecasting and project controls reporting
• Collaborate with stakeholders to support successful project delivery

Think of this role as the control tower of a project—providing the insight and information needed to help projects succeed.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in potential rather than specific experience.

You’ll be well suited to this opportunity if you enjoy working with numbers, solving problems, interpreting information and supporting others to make good decisions.

You will have:

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills
• Confidence working with data and information
• Logical thought process
• Initiative, adaptability, and a willingness to learn
• A collaborative approach to problem-solving
• Integrity, professionalism and the ability to work in a highly regulated environment.
• Permanent Right to Work in the UK

Previous experience in project controls, finance, estimating, data analysis or engineering environments may be helpful, but it is not essential.

Working Pattern — Post Training

Following successful completion of training and deployment into NRS, you’ll benefit from a compressed working week:

37 hours per week

9.25 hours per day

Monday to Thursday*

Every Friday off

* with the exception of Winfrith which operates a 4.5 day on-site policy per week.

Why Join Us?

• Earn while you learn — salary from day one.
• 10 weeks of specialist Project Controls, Cost Engineering and Planning training.
• Build skills in estimating, cost baselines, forecasting, Earned Value Management and performance reporting.
• Learn how cost and schedule information are integrated to support major project delivery.
• Work on nationally significant nuclear decommissioning and infrastructure projects
• Access structured career development, mentoring and ongoing learner support.
• Join a growing profession with long-term progression opportunities.
• 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays) plus additional benefits

Your Future Starts Here

This is more than a job—it's a supported route into a high-demand profession where you can develop valuable skills, gain industry-recognised training, and make a real impact.

Take your first step into Project Controls and Planning with AMS Skills Creation and Nuclear Restoration Services.