Job Description:

Project Controller

£30,000 - £40,000 depending on experience

Yolk Recruitment is exclusively managing the recruitment of a Project Controller to join an established engineering business in Cardiff, working on major, long-term engineering projects.

The successful Project Controller will play a key role within a close-knit project team dedicated to the delivery of major long term contracts. You'll coordinate activity across the business, helping to keep projects on track and ensuring key milestones, requirements and deliverables are met.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Project Coordinator, Project Controller, Project Administrator or recent graduate with project management experience and an engineering or manufacturing background to develop their project management career within a growing operation.

This is what you'll be doing as Project Controller

You'll work alongside experienced project and engineering colleagues, with time to learn the products, contracts and internal processes before progressively taking ownership. You'll have responsibility for keeping projects moving day-to-day, coordinating activity across engineering, production, purchasing, quality, planning and finance, while ensuring project requirements, milestones and contractual deliverables are met. You'll gain exposure to complex, high profile engineering projects and have the opportunity to build broader project management experience as your responsibilities and the team continues to grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day execution and delivery of major engineering projects.
• Maintain project plans and schedules, ensuring activities remain aligned with contractual requirements and delivery dates.
• Track project milestones, actions, deadlines and deliverables to ensure projects remain on schedule.
• Maintain project risk registers and support the development of contingency and mitigation plans.
• Coordinate activity across engineering, production, purchasing, quality, planning and finance.
• Liaise with purchasing to ensure materials and subcontractor requirements are ordered and delivered on time.
• Expedite outstanding orders and work with operations teams to keep project activity moving.
• Liaise with planning to ensure production schedules support project delivery requirements.
• Work with Quality to ensure contractual and project requirements are being met.
• Support project purchasing and monitor the progress of materials and subcontracted work.
• Ensure milestone paperwork is completed accurately and on time.
• Contribute to contract reviews and ensure project plans and activities reflect contractual requirements.
• Participate in customer meetings and support customer communication where required.
• Provide project updates and communicate progress, risks, issues and actions to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop a strong understanding of the products, manufacturing processes and project requirements to improve project control and delivery.

This is what you'll need as Project Controller

• Experience supporting or coordinating projects, ideally within an engineering or manufacturing environment, or relevant project management experience gained through university, placements or internships.
• Strong Excel skills, with experience working with project data, schedules and documentation. Microsoft Project experience would be advantageous but isn't essential.
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines and competing priorities.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineering, production, purchasing, quality, planning and finance teams.
• A proactive approach, with the confidence to take ownership, follow up actions and resolve issues to keep projects moving.
• A willingness to learn and develop, with a practical, problem-solving mindset and the ability to work effectively under pressure.

And this is what you'll get:

• £30,000 - £40,000 depending on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Early finish on Fridays
• Generous company pension
• Life assurance
• Proven opportunities for career and professional development
• Invaluable experience working alongside experienced engineers and project professionals on high-profile, long-term engineering projects

Are you up to the challenge?

If you feel you have the skills, experience and passion to be successful in the role of Project Controller, apply now.

*Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.