Project Management Apprentice

Summary

Get hands on experience working within the Project Management department, supporting the management and delivery across multiple projects through the project lifecycle to Time, Cost and Quality KPIs, all whilst obtaining your degree.

Wage: £22,000 a year
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Training course: Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday - Friday, morning: 10.00am - 12.00pm, afternoon 2.00pm - 3.30pm. Breaks and lunchtime: 30mins We do require you to be on-site 60% of the time across the month (up to 3 days per week on average)
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 4 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

Work within a business / programme environment, supporting the project (contract) delivery and/or bid activity
Liaising between customers and suppliers across multiple countries and time-zones
Support team organisation and communications plans
Creation and maintenance of project schedules
Use appropriate planning techniques to help identify project resource requirements and manage availability with functional managers
Work with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to ensure contract baselines, plans and schedules are maintained in line with agreed contract changes
Support the development & maintenance monitoring & control of project deliverables
Efficiently deliver clearly focussed customer & company project financial and schedule performance reporting
Support and maintain the production of project risk & opportunity registers(s), arranging regular reviews and communicating in monthly reporting cycle
Support development of project management capability to support business & company growth (including managing own personal development)

Where you’ll work

920 Hempton Court

Aztec West, Almondsbury

Bristol

BS32 4SR

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

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

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

You will be pursuing a Level 6 Apprenticeship Standard in Project Management
As part of this program, you will attend college as instructed by Weston College, as the training provider, and an assessor will conduct on-site observations to evaulate your progress
At the conclusion of your program, your qualification will be assessed through an End Point Assessment

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Any subject (not including English or Maths) (grade 5+)
Any subject (not including English or Maths) (grade 5+)
Any subject (not including English or Maths) (grade 5+)
English (grade 5+)
Maths (grade 5+)

A Level in:

Any (grade C or Above)

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
Organisation skills
Team working
Initiative
Ambition

Other requirements

• The candidate will require a Level 3 qualification to proceed onto a degree level programme. The candidate must be in a position to gain a UK Security Clearance (SC). • The candidate must be able to comply with Health and Safety (H&S) requirements for all facets of employment

About this company

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Company benefits

-Hybrid working -Half day finish on a Friday -25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays -Private medical insurance -Pension scheme up to 7% employer contribution -Flexible opt-in extras -Employee assistance program

After this apprenticeship

Potential for a full-time position after completion of apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Charlotte Denning

charlotte.denning@weston.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000298313.

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Closes in 30 days (Monday 24 March)

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