Planners, Cost Engineers & Risk Analysts

Project Controls Careers - Planning, Cost or Risk Specialists
Ready to escape the one-size-fits-all approach to project controls?

Whether you are a planner who wants more than just firefighting, a cost specialist looking for depth, or a risk analyst tired of being sidelined, we want to hear from you. This is not a generic role and you are not a generic candidate.
Our clients are actively looking for professionals who want to go deeper into their craft. These are roles where your specialism is respected and your input carries weight. You will join supportive teams that value rigour, challenge, and smart thinking. This is project controls done properly.

Planning – Where Delivery Starts You know the difference between a sequence and a strategy. Your schedules are more than logic-linked boxes. In this environment, you will work closely with project leads to build, refine, and drive plans that set the tempo for everything else.
You might use Primavera P6, MS Project or another platform. What matters here is your ability to interrogate, adapt, and maintain a schedule that reflects reality and can withstand scrutiny.

Cost – Where Precision Pays Off Good cost control is not just about numbers. It is about translating activity into financial reality and helping senior leaders make informed choices. If you know your way around earned value, baselines, and change management, there is space for you to step into something more complex and more rewarding.
You will work on a mix of projects, often in regulated sectors where accuracy is critical and cost performance is under the spotlight.

Risk – Where Strategy Meets Foresight You will not just be updating a risk register. Here, you will shape how projects plan, monitor, and mitigate the things that can derail progress. Whether through quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo simulation or qualitative frameworks, your thinking will matter.
You will have tools such as @Risk or Primavera Risk Analysis at your disposal. What is more important is your mindset – proactive, curious, and unafraid to challenge assumptions.

What’s on Offer

• Permanent positions
• £50,000 to £70,000 basic salary depending on experience
• Exposure to high-value, high-complexity projects across sectors
• Excellent support for growth, training, and development
• Teams that understand the importance of each discipline

If you have a strong foundation in any one of these areas, there is room here to deepen your expertise and influence how complex work gets delivered.

This is a permanent role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV or details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to British Citizens. You will also need to either hold or be willing to undergo SC clearance.