Project Controls - Level 3 Apprenticeship - Birmingham – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

We're looking for apprentices that are curious about the built and natural environment and are committed to their personal development.  We'll teach you the skills and technical knowledge that you need for a rewarding career in design and professional services, where you'll be part of a collaborative team that delivers excellence for our clients.

Annual wage: Competitive
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Training course: Project controls technician (level 3)
Hours: Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 3 September
Duration: 3 years
Positions available: 1

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

Right now, we're looking for an Advanced Project Controls Apprentice to join our team in Bristol.

From your first day, you'll join an unrivalled community of experts, where everyone is supported in their career path and encouraged to work towards an accredited qualification. 

With our global reach and multi-disciplinary approach, Arup is involved in major rail projects in the UK and worldwide. With over 25 years of rail planning, design, and construction experience, we offer our clients a broad spectrum of consulting services including, but not limited to, the following:

Strategic advice
Cost
Demand and revenue forecasting
Business case analysis
Feasibility studies
Asset management
Detailed design
Implementation and commissioning and project creation

The focus of the person sought for this role is to support senior planners/schedulers with the control of time during the design and construction stages of engineering projects.

Working typically on large-scale or complex programmes and projects, our role in this area is essential to provide useful insight and recommendation to inform remedial actions and ultimately, the success of the project.

Where you’ll work

Blythe Gate

Blythe Valley Park

Solihull, Birmingham

B90 8AE

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

LONDON METROPOLITAN COLLEGE LIMITED

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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C/4/5)
Maths (grade B/5/6)
Science (grade C/4/5)

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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working

About this company

Arup is a global firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical experts. We use our skills to make a positive difference in the world. This is a brilliant opportunity to build a creative career designing and delivering exciting work in infrastructure, building design and specialist technical services.

https://careers.arup.com/earlycareers/home/ (opens in new tab)

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

When joining us as one of our apprentices, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to study for a paid, professionally-recognised qualification in a discipline that will help you further your career.
Throughout your apprenticeship, you’ll have access to our online network. You’ll also take internal courses. These cover technical aspects of the business, such as software, but also vital ‘soft’ skills such as report writing and working effectively.
Our apprentices are employed on a permanent basis, so you'll continue to progress with Arup once you've completed your course.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LONDON METROPOLITAN COLLEGE LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000293700.

Apply now

Closes on Friday 21 February

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Project Controls - Level 3 Apprenticeship - Birmingham

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