Project Controls Apprentice

Summary

As Project Controls Apprentice at Team Plan you'll develop the skills and qualities needed to create and manage the plan of action for large-scale construction and engineering projects. We’re looking for an individual who enjoys working with others, has a great attitude towards learning, and excellent communication skills.

Wage

£23,000 a year

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Salary will be reviewed each year.

Training course

Project controls technician (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:30pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

3 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Project Controllers are a crucial part of a project team and a key profession in the exciting world of construction & engineering projects. You’ll develop a diverse range of skills including project planning & scheduling, cost estimating, and risk management.

It might help to know more about what Project Controls is...

Most people have heard of Project Managers, Project Controllers work alongside Project Managers to deliver successful projects. Other job titles linked to Project Controls are Planners, Planning Engineers, Schedulers, Cost Engineers, Cost Estimators.

Project Controllers provide data-driven insights to enable Project Managers to make decisions.

Think of a project as flying a plane, the project controller is the navigator to the project manager ‘pilot’. The navigator plans the flightpath and considers duration, speed, risks (bad weather, turbulence). The navigator ultimately enables the pilot to reach the destination.

Project Controllers are focused on the timeline and cost of the project: planning the stages, measuring progress and anticipating risks. This involves communicating with lots of people involved in the project (i.e. designers, engineers, trades people). They collect, manage and analyse data through creating spreadsheets and graphs using specific project controls software. VERY importantly, Project Controllers need to be able to explain and present this (often complex) data and findings in ways which others involved in the project will understand.

You will be:

Planning: Creating and managing detailed plans and programmes of works on a variety of interesting construction projects, using project controls related software and IT systems
Scheduling: Ensuring that activities happen on time
Progress monitoring: Tracking data and producing project performance reports, which measure and illustrate progress against project targets
Attending and contributing to planning and progress meetings
Controlling quality: Ensuring that the project’s fulfil their requirements
Cost control: Ensuring the work is performed within budget
Risk management: Identifying, analysing and managing risks

This is a great opportunity to learn the essential skills that are already in high demand across the industry, setting you up for unlimited progression and fantastic earning potential.

You don’t need to be studying any specific subject to apply, but if you enjoy subjects like Business Studies, IT, Law, Design Technology, and/or Maths you might enjoy project controls. The day-to-day duties involved in Project Controls involves skills linked to these subjects.

Where you’ll work

SUITE 51
4100 PARK APPROACH
THORPE PARK
LEEDS
LS15 8GB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

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

The training for this apprenticeship is delivered virtually. You’ll attend live online classes from the Team Plan office.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 5)
Maths (grade 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
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Willingness to learn
Positive attitude towards work

Other requirements

You’ll be based at Team Plan HQ full time initially (with some occasional site visits with colleagues), once you’re feeling confident enough you’ll spend more time on site. We work on projects throughout the UK (with an increasing number in Europe) therefore travel, and potentially working away from home, is likely to be required.

About this company

Team Plan Ltd is a Project Controls consultancy to the construction and engineering industry. Ultimately, we work alongside the many people involved in a project to monitor and control the time, resources, cost and risks involved. We're small in terms of team size but big in terms of the projects we work on. There are currently 4 members of the team, but we're growing fast. As Project Controls Apprentice you will be an integral part of our future vision. At Team Plan we recognise the importance of bringing new people into the industry and developing them into well rounded project controls professionals. We're a small and supportive team with big ambitions. Please visit our website www.teamplanltd.com for more information including case studies detailing the projects we’re involved in and the services we provide. We'd love for you to follow us on Linked In to get a flavour of who we are https://www.linkedin.com/company/weareteamplan Our TikTok and Instagram accounts are currently under development, we’ll be posting more soon: TikTok: @team.planltd Instagram: @teamplanltd Thanks for taking the time to read up on us. If you have any queries please get in touch.

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After this apprenticeship

Joining Team Plan will be exciting and offers huge opportunity to develop within the profession and undertake further qualifications tailored to your personal ambitions i.e. degree and post grad level studies.

Upon completion of your apprenticeship you will become a Trainee/Junior Planner, as you build your experience and project portfolio you will progress into more senior roles.

There's a national skills shortage of Project Controls professionals, as a result the earning potential within this field of work is substantial!

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

TEAM PLAN LTD

Lauren Llewellyn

lauren.llewellyn@teamplanltd.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314033.

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Closes in 24 days (Friday 9 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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