Project Coordinator

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 requirem...