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 project
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