The Project Controls Apprentice is primarily responsible for developing a practical understanding of the business, project management and project controls in line with the course plan of their apprenticeship qualification. It is expected they will be completely new to an office environment and will therefore need to focus on standard office skills and behaviours alongside the more technical and industry specific knowledge. As they progress they will be able to undertake limited project controls activities as delegated by their Project Controls Manager under supervision and guidance from more senior Project Controls staff.

Roles and Responsibilities 

Cost Control 

• Utilise SAP to generate cost collection codes, extract data, and produce cost reports;
•  Work with project and work package managers to generate estimates of cost for new work packages and the remaining cost (Estimate to Complete, ETC);
• Gather and validate actual costs for work packages.

Planning & Scheduling

• Become familiar with a project schedule, being able to identify and communicate the critical path, describe upcoming activities and progress made, and compare this to the baseline;
•  Extract reports, data, and periodic lookaheads for projects and work packages from the schedule;
• Conduct periodic schedule updates for progress made and future reforecasting;
• Know the quality standards for a schedule and be able to assure schedules against these.

RAID Management

• Understand the project RAID log and be able to describe the risks and their impacts to the relevant work packages;
• Be able to produce standard RAID reports such as TopN, Due Mitigation Actions, and Contingency Drawdown Curves;
• Update individual risks with risk owners including revising impacts and updating mitigation actions.

Document Control

• Interface with document control systems, uploading/ downloading documentation and extracting data for status reporting;
• Issue, track and log transmittals;
• Conduct non-technical documentation reviews.

This is a training role and as such there is an expectation the role will not be able to work autonomously and will require daily supervision and direction by more senior project controls staff.

Person Specification

• An aptitude for data and numbers
• Good communication
• A keen interest in personal development
• Strong time management

Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm
Salary
£22,500

Expected Duration
27 Months

 25 days annual leave per year raising to 30 (1 day for every 2 years service)
8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) – 1% min Employee
Individual and family private health care
Employee assistance programme (EAP)
Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
Plus more including access to training and development opportunities.