Summary
You will study a Degree Apprenticeship in Professional Practice in Project Management to achieve a BSc (Hons) degree. This will take around 3.5 years to complete and you will attend our university partner for your studies in blocks. You will work 40 hours per week in a hybrid pattern with time spent in the office, on-site and working from home.
Annual wage
Competitive
Training course
Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday. Start and finish times to be decide with your people manager
40 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
3 years 6 months
Positions available
2
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
* Learning what delivery and financial performance looks like and how to monitor and review this to help identify issues and work to put this right
* Understanding what cost reconciliation is. Learning to work with both commercial and finance teams to develop the ability to make sure cost implications are covered
* Learning about what our internal design team does and the role they play in projects. Working with the design team to make sure the client’s expectations are met
* Understand what a stakeholder is. Develop the ability to work with different types of stakeholders involved in the projects to make sure everything is delivered successfully
* Learning about what preconstruction and ECI (early contractor involvement) phases are within a project. Begin to gain experience on how to create and maintain project programmes during these phases
* Learning to work with the delivery teams throughout the construction process and life cycle of the project and gain experience in project managing them to make sure the project is delivered successfully
* Developing an excellent awareness of health and safety and learn to become accountable for safety and compliance auditing
Where you’ll work
Webster Court
Carina Park
Westbrook
Warrington
WA5 8WD
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY
Your training course
Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
* Governance Frameworks: Lead and take responsibility for the project management plan as required by the governance structure. Apply techniques and project management methodologies as appropriate, dependent upon project complexity and criticality to the organisational environment in which a project is being delivered. Maintain, review and communicate a project business case for approval through the stages of a typical project lifecycle ensuring continued value for money and continued alignment with organisational objectives.
* The Business Environment: Identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within both large and small organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring. Identify the operating constraints that apply to projects including ethical, legal and regulatory considerations. This may include the green economy and the impacts of strategies for achieving net carbon zero by 2050.
* Stakeholder and communications management: Lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of internal and external stakeholders and their impact on the project. Manage an effective project communication plan across stakeholders with different cultural and physical barriers. Analyse information and communicate with stakeholders incorporating elements of feedback to understand and measure the effectiveness of planned communications. Effectively listen and influence others through negotiation and persuasion.
* Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality: Manage the project within the constraints of time, cost and quality. Control expenditure and produce status reports as required, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators as required by funding sources. Measure progress and actual costs against plans to determine a full understanding of project performance. Identify, achieve and maintain quality standards appropriate to the context and specific requirements of project activities.
* Risk Management: Ensure that project risks, opportunities and issues are addressed using quantitative and qualitative methods to categorise risks and their impacts. Identify, evaluate and implement appropriate mitigation strategies, ensuring that mitigation actions are incorporated into the project plan and are implemented should they develop into issues. Manage risk through the regular review of a risk management plan, adopting appropriate strategies to manage both threats and opportunities.
* Commercial and Contract management: Maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Support effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.
* Project Change Control: Dependent upon the size and complexity of a project, define and apply a recognised process to manage change in projects. Make effective decisions in the interests of a range of stakeholders with regards to change requests. Handle change within different project management methodologies.
* Schedule Management: Evaluate requirements and methods for data capture and analysis in a project environment. Evaluate project schedule integrity including identification and resolution of scheduling problems. Apply resource acquisition and management techniques to balance programme and project needs against resource demand. Negotiate the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources to meet programme and project demands.
Your training plan
Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade 4/C or above)
* Maths (grade 4/C or above)
A Level in:
* 3x A Levels (grade C or above)
T Level in:
* Any (grade Pass or above)
BTEC in:
* Any (grade Pass or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* IT skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Customer care skills
* Problem solving skills
* Presentation skills
* Administrative skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative
* Patience