At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage project schedules and provide progress reports for informed decision-making.
- Company: Join ABP, the UK's leading ports group driving trade and energy transition.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and a commitment to safety and sustainability.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities across 21 port locations.
- Why this job: Be part of transformative projects that support the UK's journey to net zero.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and strong planning skills required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Purpose: To develop, maintain and manage robust project schedules, providing accurate progress reports to support informed decision-making across multidisciplinary project teams. APB's projects are developed in both central and regional contexts and this role will deliver in strong collaboration across all regions and functions. This is critical to ensure we adapt to the local context and leverage the resources and expertise available. Individual project CAPEX values typically range from £50K to in excess of £5M.
Accountabilities:
- Develop and maintain detailed baseline and live project programmes using Primavera P6 / Asta Powerproject / MS Project.
- Integrate cost, risk, procurement, and resource data into project schedules.
- Monitor programme progress, identify critical path impacts, and assess schedule risk.
- Collaborate with project managers, engineers, commercial teams, and subcontractors.
- Ensure schedule governance aligns with contractual and internal controls.
- Support the Project Managers (PM's) across the project portfolio in implementing the processes to manage and monitor project plans, project schedules, budgets and expenditures to ensure budgets are maintained and expenditure is controlled.
- Own and manage the administration of multiple core Project Controls processes.
Experience:
Essential:
- Experience in project management, from conception to delivery.
- Sound planning and coordination skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans.
- Familiarity with risk management and quality assurance control.
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office suite of programmes incl MS Project, Powerpoint, Excel and Visio.
- Ability to build relationships and work successfully with people at all levels.
- Ability to focus on multiple tasks at the same time.
- Ability to manage own workload to meet tight deadlines.
Ideal:
- Infrastructure project experience - Civil/Electrical/Mechanical.
- Experience in Document Management software.
- Project management qualification.
About ABP: At Associated British Ports (ABP), we proudly serve our customers and our communities in pursuit of our ambitious twin missions of 'Keeping Britain Trading' and 'Enabling the Energy Transition'. These are underpinned by a strong commitment to safety, sustainability and our people. ABP is the UK's leading and largest ports group, providing essential gateways for trade and enabling green infrastructure essential for the UK's energy transition. We are a major landlord and port operator with 21 port locations in the UK. We have 87km of Quay and 5000ha of port estate handling approximately 100 million tonnes of cargo every year. ABP handles more than a quarter of all ports industry volumes, provides support for over half the UK's offshore wind and catalyses investment, jobs and prosperity in coastal communities. We are also a vital enabler of the UK's transformation to net zero, with exciting plans to develop our port estate so that they play a leading role in supporting the energy transition through onshore and offshore wind, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCUS). To support our ambitious growth, it is key for ABP to have a strong delivery engine for transforming new opportunities into reality.
Project Controller in Newport employer: Associated British Ports
At ABP, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in the Humber Region where innovation meets tradition. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our supportive culture and opportunities for professional development, ensuring that you can thrive while managing a diverse property portfolio. With competitive salaries and fantastic benefits, joining our team means becoming part of a forward-thinking organisation that values collaboration and strategic impact in one of the UK's most significant industrial hubs.
