Project Management Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

Do you have what it takes to lead complex and exciting projects from concept to completion? Our 4.5-year Project Management Degree Apprenticeship offers you the opportunity to earn a degree while overseeing critical projects that contribute to creating a safer and more secure world.

Annual wage

£25,364 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Year 1: £25,364 Year 2: £28,528 Year 3: £34,326 Year 4: £36,572 Year 5: £39,120

Training course

Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 1 September

Duration

5 years

Positions available

10

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

Getting things to happen how they should, when they should, safely and within budget is both a science and an art. On this degree level apprenticeship programme, you’ll learn exactly how it’s done.
As a Project Management Degree Apprentice, you’ll work on real projects, ensuring we meet time, cost, and quality requirements. From cutting-edge design and manufacturing to in-service support and innovative capability enhancement, you’ll be responsible for delivering some of our most business-critical projects from start to finish.
You’ll develop both the technical expertise and essential soft skills needed to excel in project management. This includes honing your presentation, communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills, as well as advanced planning techniques.
Throughout the programme, you’ll put these skills into practice by leading multi-skilled teams, managing stakeholder expectations, assessing risks, and navigating the complexities of delivering large-scale projects.

Where you’ll work

Devonport Royal Dockyard

Devonport

Plymouth

PL1 4SG

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

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

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

Upon successfully completing your apprenticeship, you will earn a BSc in Project Management from the University of Plymouth, along with a professional qualification in Project Management at IPMA Level D (or equivalent). Additionally, you will become eligible for membership with the Association for Project Management (APM).

Your training will involve a combination of classroom learning and work placements. Every fortnight, you will engage in two days of learning with the university, which will include a mix of in-person teaching, online sessions, and self-directed learning. The remainder of your time will be spent onsite at Babcock, where you will gain practical experience and learn the specifics of your role.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

any subject (grade C/4 or above)
any subject (grade C/4 or above)
any subject (grade C/4 or above)
English (grade C/4 or above)
Maths (grade C/4 or above)

A Level in:

any subject (grade C or above)
any subject (grade C or above)
any subject (grade C 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
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Logical
Team working

Other requirements

Many of our early careers roles are subject to Security Clearance and Trade Control restrictions which mean that your place of birth, nationality, citizenship, or residency you hold may impact which roles you are eligible for. You must be able to achieve BPSS (Baseline security) and many of them require you to be eligible for Security Clearance.

About this company

Babcock is an international defence, aerospace and security company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets with potential to become focus countries. We meet our customers’ key requirements of affordability, availability, and capability by delivering engineering, support and critical systems to defence and civil markets.

https://earlycareers.babcockinternational.com/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Fully funded qualification, personal development, training and opportunities, minimum 28 days holiday allowance including bank holidays, competitive pension scheme, employee share scheme, flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

It’s hard to beat the variety of fantastic opportunities and business experiences you’ll receive. You can expect real world encounters and exposure to exciting projects that will really help you navigate where you want to take your career.

Plus, when you join us, you’ll be automatically enrolled onto our Apprentice Development Programme. Through a series of digital and face to face sessions, presented by wellbeing and performance experts and our external partners, we will equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to thrive and perform at your very best on your programme and beyond.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000286999.

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Closes on Thursday 20 March

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