Summary
As a Project Controls Technician, you’ll be joining our Construction team, where you’ll learn to control, monitor and analyse progress and performance data on engineering, construction and infrastructure projects. You’ll kick-start your career blending academic study with work-based learning.
Wage
£24,242 a year
Training course
Project controls technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, flexible working. Shifts TBC.
37 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
3 years
Positions available
3
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
You’ll develop a diverse range of skills including project planning, cost estimating, risk management, procurement and governance. You’ll learn:
- Project controls
- Review and interpret technical information
- Estimating practice
- Planning and scheduling practice
- Cost engineering practice
- Work breakdown and coding structures
- Tracking data and progress reporting
- Analysis techniques
- Technical, engineering and mathematical principles
- Importance of safety
- Employer organisation, management systems, and procedures
- Commercial matters
- Project controls related software and IT systems
We’ll work closely with your apprenticeship provider to review your progress at regular intervals, providing feedback and guiding your development. You’ll have a tailored personalised plan that ensures you have appropriate support and training. Most of your learning will be on the job, with off-the-job training and one-to-one tutoring. Your apprenticeship will end with an End Point Assessment, which typically takes 3 months to complete.
Where you’ll work
Sherwood Business Park
Lake View Dr
Nottingham
NG15 0ED
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
LEARNING SKILLS PARTNERSHIP LTD
Your training course
Project controls technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
* Develop work breakdown and coding structures to meet the scope laid out in the projects’ technical information and specification, ensuring that the controls will monitor project progress and performance accurately.
* Manage data: source, retrieve, check, edit, format, record and analyse data – using it to create relevant time, cost and resource reports.
* Estimate: develop cost estimates for defined scopes of work, create appropriate benchmarks, analyse quotes from sub- contractors and suppliers, and input to tenders and the early stages of projects.
* Schedule and plan: break down the scope into activities to create a logical linked control schedule to input to the development of outline and integrated plans and baseline schedules; identify critical milestones; gather accurate progress data for controlling the schedule; and monitor progress.
* Cost engineer and control: prepare control budgets, carry out cost control activities, gather and interpret cost data, monitor progress on a regular basis, interpret trends and forecasts; keep in line with contractual requirements, maintain baselines; ensure accurate reporting and control.
* Monitor progress/performance and analyse data: associated with milestones, schedules, progress, manpower, resource and costs; undertake earned value analysis, create progress reports and identify variances from plan and likely consequences if no corrective action is taken.
* Use computer based technology: model potential trends and resource use etc. using the right software package for the right task.
* Problem solve: recommend early corrective actions to reduce variances, identify issues and risks, present and maintain related action plans and contingencies.
* Effectively communicate: with good interpersonal skills and share the right information with the right people in an appropriate format to enable effective project control.
* Input to project closeout: generate key benchmarks and outturns including lessons learnt.
* Observe and apply professional ethics, and maintain a duty of care.
* Apply safety in the context of the role: comply with relevant national and international health, safety and environmental requirements.
* Work in accordance with company management systems, policies and procedures: especially those relating to quality, data security, risk, change and document management.
Your training plan
L3 Project controls technician Apprenticeship Standard
Monday to Friday. You'll spend one day a week during term time, released for college. The rest of the time you'll be split between being on site, in the office and working from home .
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* 5 GCSEs including maths and English (grade A-C or 5-9)
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
* Problem solving skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
Other requirements
A cover letter is essential to help us understand why you're a great fit for the role. You'll need to have a licence before joining us on September 1st 2025. You'll need to have permanent right to work in the UK for the entirety of this programme, as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.