L4 Associate Project Manager Apprentice (Abzorb Systems)
ABZORB SYSTEMS LTD
West Yorkshire, HD6 1QF
Closes in 15 days (Monday 6 January at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 December 2024
Contents
Summary
Your role will involve assisting in project planning, coordination, and execution to ensure successful delivery of solutions like SD-WAN, LAN/Wi-Fi Projects, and unified communications.
- Annual wage
- £16,126 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 13 January
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Assist Senior Project Managers in planning, executing, and closing IT networking and telecommunications projects.
- Help monitor project timelines, budgets, and deliverables to ensure projects stay on track.
- Coordinate communication between internal teams, external vendors, and clients to align project goals and ensure smooth progress.
- Support the management of resources and procurement of necessary equipment and services.
- Track and document project milestones, risks, and issues while providing regular updates to the project team.
- Assist in creating project reports and presentations for senior management and stakeholders.
- Learn and implement project management tools and methodologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness in project delivery.
- Contribute to problem-solving discussions and decision-making processes in project execution.
Where you’ll work
Abzorb Systems Ltd
Armytage Road
Brighouse
West Yorkshire
HD6 1QF
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
More training information
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.
Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 5 GCSE's Maths/Business/IT (grade (A*-C/9-4 or equivalent))
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
- Multitasking skills
- Manage tight deadlines
- Collaborative skills
- Willingness to learn
Other requirements
Basic understanding of IT Networking or telecommunications (desirable, but not required as training will be provided).
About this company
Abzorb is an award-winning managed service provider and telecommunications specialist, supplying some of the largest private and public sector organisations in the country. Abzorb specialises in large Digital Transformation projects. Abzorb was formed over 25 years ago and now has turnover exceeding £25 million per annum.
Company benefits
· 20 days holiday plus bank holidays · Employer contribution - 3% · Employee contribution - 5% , starts after 3 months of employment
After this apprenticeship
- Promotion to Project Manager role once qualified. Abzorb will fund additional training for other project management methodologies.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
La'Kei Scott
La'Kei.Scott@estio.co.uk
0203 834 2872
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000291378.
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Closes in 15 days (Monday 6 January at 11:59pm)
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