Graduate Trainee - Project Controls

Prospects; England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£31,000 starting salary

Contributory pension scheme

270 hours annual leave

9-day working fortnight (every other F

Salary-sacrifice scheme

Life Assurance

Employee discounts

Welcome payment

Interest-free £1,000 loan

Employee Assistance Programme

Occupational Health Services

Graduate pay reviews & career progress

Job summary

Prospects is seeking a Project Controls professional to help project teams understand delivery status, changes, and attention areas. You will learn to build credible plans, measure progress, forecast performance and explain what the data means for time, cost and outcomes.

You will gain experience in turning data into confident decisions, working with plans, schedules, costs and risks to support senior stakeholders and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Analytical: You enjoy working with data, identifying patterns and testing assumptions.
• Detail focused: You can work accurately and understand why reliable information matters.
• Logical: You use structured thinking to solve problems and reach clear conclusions.
• Collaborative: You can work with project, engineering and business teams to understand delivery needs.
• Organised: You can manage priorities, plan ahead and meet deadlines.
• Constructive: You are willing to question existing approaches and suggest evidence-based improvements.

Responsibilities

• Planning and scheduling: Help create, review and maintain project plans and schedules, including activity durations, dependencies and milestones.
• Performance measurement: Track delivery against baselines and help teams understand progress.
• Cost and forecasting: Support cost analysis and forecasts to inform decisions.
• Risk and change: Assess how risks, opportunities and proposed changes could affect time, cost and delivery.
• Reporting and insight: Turn project data into clear monthly reports, trends and insights for decisions.
• Estimating and resources: Help estimate time, cost, people and resources for activities.
• Technical integration: Use engineering drawings and technical info to support planning and control.

Skills

Analytical

Detail focused

Logical

Collaborative

Organised

Constructive

Education

2:2 degree

Job description

Help project teams understand where delivery stands, what is changing and what needs attention. You will use plans, schedules, costs, risks and performance data to provide the insight that keeps complex projects and programmes on course. Turn project data into confident decisions Project Controls brings structure and evidence to delivery. You will learn how to build credible plans, measure progress, forecast future performance and explain what the data means for time, cost and outcomes.

What opportunities will you have?

• Planning and scheduling: Help create, review and maintain project plans and schedules, including activity durations, dependencies and milestones.
• Performance measurement: Track delivery against agreed baselines and help teams understand whether projects are progressing as planned.
• Cost and forecasting: Support cost analysis and forecasts so teams can understand current performance and likely future outcomes.
• Risk and change: Assess how risks, opportunities and proposed changes could affect time, cost, resources and delivery.
• Reporting and insight: Turn project data into clear monthly reports, trends and insights that support decisions.
• Estimating and resources: Help estimate the time, cost, people and resources needed to complete project activities.
• Technical integration: Use technical information, which may include engineering drawings, to support realistic planning and control.

What you will learn

• How large projects are broken down into manageable activities, resources and costs.
• How schedules, milestones and dependencies are created and maintained.
• How project baselines are set and used to measure progress.
• Cost forecasting, variance analysis and performance reporting.
• How risks, changes and emerging issues influence time, cost and delivery.
• How data, statistics and digital tools support project decisions.
• How to communicate analytical findings clearly to project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Exposure to detailed analysis, using systems, tools and emerging technologies to interpret data, identify patterns and support informed decision‑making.

What you will get

• £31,000 starting salary.
• A market-leading contributory pension scheme.
• 270 hours of annual leave, including bank holidays.
• A 9-day working fortnight, giving you every other Friday off.
• A salary-sacrifice benefit scheme, Life Assurance and employee discounts.
• A welcome payment and the option of an interest‑free £1,000 loan.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Regular Graduate pay reviews and structured career progression.

Minimum 2:2.

• Analytical: You enjoy working with data, identifying patterns and testing assumptions.
• Detail focused: You can work accurately and understand why reliable information matters.
• Logical: You use structured thinking to solve problems and reach clear conclusions.
• Collaborative: You can work with project, engineering and business teams to understand delivery needs.
• Organised: You can manage priorities, plan ahead and meet deadlines.
• Constructive: You are willing to question existing approaches and suggest evidence-based improvements.

You must be a British National and willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance.