Project Management Level 6 Apprenticeship

Summary

Our Level 6 Apprenticeship in Project Management offers you a comprehensive, structured program designed to launch your career in our industry. Through a mix of practical experience and technical training, you’ll develop skills essential for Project Management while gaining valuable, real-world insight into our projects.

Wage

£25,170.21 a year

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Training course

Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday to Friday

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

4 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

To support the project team in the successful delivery of projects meeting time, cost and quality requirements.
To help ensure high standards of health, safety and environmental issues within each project.
To assist in ensuring safe, successful completion of a project meeting the engineering standards and the commercial objectives of each project.
To assist in identifying and managing the risks associated with each project.
To maintain excellent working relationships with all stakeholders.
Work to continuously improve standards of performance
To work with the Project Manager, Assistant Project Manager and project teams to review and manage projects from cradle to grave, from feasibility, estimating, design, construction and handover.
To work with the Project Teams to review the project plan, business plan and procurement plan.
To play a role in ensuring all projects are driven to provide the best value solutions, and delivered on time and within budgets.
During the project execution phase, to make regular site visits with your team to monitor progress, identify and resolve problems and ensuring compliance with the programme.
To oversee all aspects of the project completion phase.
To Support project reviews and close out reports/ meetings with the project team and voice opinions on the main issues for continuous learning and improvement.

Where you’ll work

Robinson House
West Lakes Science Park
Mow Row
Cumbria
CA24 3HY

Training

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

College or training organisation

THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA

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

Level 6 Project manager (integrated degree) apprenticeship standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English Language (grade 4 or C)
Maths (grade 4 or C)

A Level in:

Any (grade 96 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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Initiative

About this company

We deliver some of the UK’s most complex and critical infrastructure across six core sectors of energy, water, nuclear, highways, rail and aviation for public and private customers. Working on projects and long-term frameworks, we believe in connecting people, places and communities through innovative and responsible infrastructure. Our people are our business. Through their expertise, we harness innovative ideas and approaches that enable us to safely and responsibly design and deliver resilient infrastructure upon which we all rely. Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK construction and regeneration group with revenue of over £3 billion. About our Energy business We have extensive experience in upgrading and replacing energy networks, delivering asset management for major UK energy companies and network operators.

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

Could move into an ongoing role as a Project Manager

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317348.

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Closes in 14 days (Monday 12 May 2025)

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