Project Management Degree Apprentice

Summary

Are you ready to gain hands-on experience while earning a salary and studying for a fully funded degree? We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Apprentice Project Manager, where you’ll work alongside industry experts, develop essential skills, and build a rewarding career in construction.

Wage

£21,500 a year

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Training course

Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday to Friday 07:30 - 17:30 with half an hour unpaid lunch break.

47 hours 30 minutes 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

Ensure that company health, safety & wellbeing policies and procedures are adhered to and fully implemented during project delivery
Documented safety inspections
Write & submit construction phase plans
Ensure that company environmental policies and procedures are adhered to and fully implemented during project delivery
Ensure relevant environmental permits are in place prior to affected activities commencing on site
Support the testing and commissioning of the project and provide quality assurance documents for the project
Co-ordinate with 3rd parties such as Local Authority Highways Teams and attend site meetings to discuss the delivery of the scheme
Attend pre-construction and construction progress meetings
Managing and updating the project programme to ensure progress is monitored against outputs. Identifying any opportunities and risks that the movement in the programme creates
Schedule & attend lookahead/coordination meetings with Site Managers & document the meeting
Capture and issue progress photos
Work with the pre-construction team to review a new site and produce information to assist with the development of project estimates
Work with the Quantity Surveyor in the preparation of monthly forecast based on work done in the month

Where you’ll work

Envolve Infrastructure
Unit B
St Brendans Court
Bristol
BS11 9FB

Training

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

College or training organisation

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

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

Time will be split between university and working within the business across sites in South West England.

Once recruited into the business, you will be part of a wider cohort of Degree Apprentices from across the whole Renew Group. As a member of this cohort, you will be provided with a set of core skills and competencies which translate across all Group businesses. You will also benefit from being able to network with all of your cohort members, building breadth into your development experience.

Requirements

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
Logical
Team working
Initiative

About this company

We build, maintain, and renew the infrastructures that keep our country running, and have done since 1984. Initially specialising in deep clean and wastewater pipelines, our expertise and collaborative approach organically developed the business into a strategic partner of choice, specialising in: Heavy civil engineering Clean & wastewater treatment Clean water pipelines Wastewater pipelines Renovation Trenchless technology Dam safety Reactive/emergency ‘on call’ services Highways Rail Power

https://envolve-infrastructure.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Private Medical Insurance Business Mileage Reimbursed 4 x Death in Service Life Assurance Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

After this apprenticeship

The structure of the apprenticeship standards means that apprentices will gain knowledge, skills and behaviours to be a fully-fledged project manager at the end of the programme. They will have gained experience in areas including business environment and organisational strategy, governance and financial controls, project justification, change control, stakeholder engagement, communication management, organisational change management, quality and risk management, commercial procurement and contract management, and international project management.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ENVOLVE INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Catherine Turnbull

catherine.turnbull@envolve-infrastructure.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316383.

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Closes in 12 days (Saturday 10 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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