Apprentice (Assistant Project Coordinator)

Summary

Do you want to be part of building a greener, healthier, and stronger North West? Come and join us! With a range of award-winning roles on offer, you’re sure to find your perfect career here at United Utilities. We’ll provide you with industry-leading skills and the experience you need to succeed in your chosen field.

Wage

£19,000 a year

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Annual increase

Training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

Hours

Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Wednesday 3 September

Duration

2 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

As an Apprentice Assistant Project Coordinator, you’ll learn:

Construction techniques employed in building new assets, and why some are favoured over others.
About different types of contracts, where they are employed and how to administer them commercially.
People skills, for managing conflict, negotiation and health and safety behaviours.
About the water and wastewater network and process, and the requirement to build new assets.
About health, safety, welfare and environmental management, the law, the requirements and how to review if these are being met.
How to review things against a standards or guidelines to ensure that the quality required is met.
How important customer and stakeholder management are to successful construction management.

You'll work closely with our Project teams in the Construction Delivery. The team is involved with a variety of different construction project including improvements to existing Water and Wastewater works, laying new pipe through fields and towns, building shafts and tunnels and installing new security measures. This type of work can be disruptive to our customers and stakeholder so during the apprenticeship you will learn how to be the expert on all things customer within the project team.

You will work closely with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Manager and many others in the project team to ensure customers are communicated to and the impact of our work is kept to a minimum.

You will need a full UK driving licence for this role, as you will be required to be mobile across a range of sites. We will carry out a driving licence check at that time alongside the other pre-employment checks before your appointment can be confirmed.

Where you’ll work

Bluebell House

Brian Johnson Way

Preston

PR2 5PE

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

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

Your training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
Manage and engage with stakeholders.
Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
Monitor and analyse project budgets.
Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
Work within the approved project budget.
Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
Manage and engage with stakeholders.
Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
Monitor and analyse project budgets.
Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
Work within the approved project budget.
Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
Manages resources through the project lifecycle.

Your training plan

Your apprenticeship will last 24 months, and successful apprentices will achieve an Associate Project Manager, Level: 4 standard, endorsed by the Institute for Apprenticeships.

More training information

During your apprenticeship, you may need to travel to your place of study. If you’re from outside the area, accommodation will be provided by United Utilities during this period (excluding weekends). Please consider travel requirements and staying away from home if applicable.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 subjects incl. Maths, English & Science/Tech (grade A-C or 9-4)

Other in:

- (grade equivalent A-C or 9-4)
A-level, Apprenticeship/BTEC (grade Totalling 48 UCAS points)

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
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

If offered a job, pre-employment checks are required before confirmation. Employment is subject to a satisfactory report from Disclosure Scotland/Disclosure and Barring Service. Apply for only one apprenticeship and explain your choice during the assessment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

About this company

United Utilities is responsible for water and wastewater services in the North West of England. Our purpose is to provide great water and more for the North West. We deliver 1.8 billion litres of water a day to more than 3 million homes and businesses in the North West, as well as treating all the wastewater which disappears around the U-bend. Keeping the region flowing relies on a vast behind the scenes operation, involving hundreds of reservoirs, treatment works and pumping stations; thousands of kilometres of water pipes and sewers and a 5,000 strong workforce.

https://www.unitedutilities.com (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

The right candidate could move into a role as an Associate Project Manager.

Every apprentice is guaranteed a permanent position at the end of their scheme as long as they meet all necessary standards and behaviour criteria throughout the programme.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

UUEarlyCareers@uuplc.co.uk

03301754408

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000299553.

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Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 19 February)

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Company’s application instructions

Further details will be shared in an application pack for those who are proceeded after initial application. We may need to close the role down early if we receive a high volume of applications so would encourage people to apply at their earliest opportunity.

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