Assistant Project Manager Officer Higher Apprentice - Warwick
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Gallows Hill, CV34 6DA
Closes on Friday 28 February
Posted on 19 December 2024
Contents
Summary
Joining a Higher Apprentice programme at National Grid gives you the opportunity to be responsible for the successful planning and delivery of project work, with real responsibility from day one.
- Annual wage
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£29,000 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
25 days holiday Pensions and share-option scheme Flexible Benefits & Working Close mentorship and regular feedback Volunteering opportunities
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday, daytime hours (0800-1600, 0900-1700).
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 1 September
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
This role is based within our Customer Connections Team. This is the department that connects customers — such as data centres, battery storage projects, offshore wind farms, transport networks and solar farms — to the electricity transmission network.
The connections process is key to delivering the capacity needed for an efficient and renewable transmission network and we need to deliver an increasing number of highly complex and exciting new projects. In this role you would play a crucial role in enabling us to do this.
As a Higher Apprentice in Customer Connections, you'll:
- Work in the Project Management Office (PMO) alongside colleagues in planning, estimating, risk, and reporting
- Gain experience in various aspects of estimating, risk, and cost management, including participating in scheme teams and supporting project managers
- Contribute to maintaining the Cost Book, analysing tender submissions, and identifying project risks
- Opportunity to be involved in project planning and program management of live projects, understanding their interactions and operational constraints
Where you’ll work
National Grid House
Warwick Technology Park
Gallows Hill
CV34 6DA
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
HEART OF ENGLAND TRAINING 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
Associate project manager Level 4.
You will have reviews with the training provider HOET (Heart Of England Training, your Line Manager and Business Coordinator every 10 weeks
You will study for half a day at a time, for a total of 16 days
You will have a three month assessment window to enter the gateway and complete your end point assessment to gain your qualification.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- 5 GCSES (or equivalent) incl. Maths and English (grade 4 and above)
Desirable qualifications
A Level or equivalent in:
- 2 A-Levels incl either Maths, Computing or Science (grade A* - C)
BTEC or equivalent in:
- Engineering (Any), Computing or Business (grade Merit or Distinction)
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
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Patience
- Adaptable
- Safety
- Reliable
- Responsible
About this company
National Grid is at the heart of the energy future, and our people are at the heart of National Grid. We’re 30,000 colleagues strong. In the UK, National Grid don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt. The world of energy is changing beyond recognition as we focus on building a cleaner, greener future. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will join National Grid as an Assistant EPC Project Manager.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEART OF ENGLAND TRAINING LIMITED
box.ukapprentices@nationalgrid.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000292983.
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Closes on Friday 28 February
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