Assistant Project Management Officer Advanced Apprentice - Sheffield
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Sheffield (S6 2ET)
Closes on Thursday 19 February 2026
Posted on 3 December 2025
Contents
Summary
This role leads the execution of major energy projects across the UK. These projects include building and upgrading substations and transmission lines, which are critical components that ensure electricity and gas are delivered safely and reliably.
- Wage
-
£24,306 a year
Check minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
- 26 days annual leave + statutory holidays.
- Pension scheme and sharesave options.
- Flexible benefits.
- Opportunity to enrol in our sharesave/share incentive plans.
- Training course
- Project controls technician (level 3)
- Hours
-
Monday – Friday, daytime hours 0800-1600 or 0900-1700.
37 hours a week
- Start date
-
Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
-
1 year 6 months
- Positions available
-
5
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
One of our key initiatives is the Great Grid Upgrade, which connects more renewable energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales. As an Assistant PMO Advanced Apprentice, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the future of energy, gaining hands-on experience while contributing to National Grid’s sustainability goals.
Within this role, you’ll gain experience in every stage of the project lifecycle, from early planning and stakeholder engagement to construction and final commissioning, including:
- Provide essential administrative support to help deliver projects efficiently, including maintaining documentation and ensuring compliance with project processes.
- Support the validation and interpretation of project data, helping to identify risks or discrepancies that could impact project success.
- Assist in managing change requests by maintaining central records and ensuring updates are clearly communicated across teams.
- Help coordinate meetings and workshops, working closely with project teams and stakeholders to support progress tracking and issue resolution.
- Contribute to project reporting and updates, while supporting improvements in project management practices and tools to align with strategic goals.
Where you'll work
30 Livesey Street
Sheffield
S6 2ET
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Training course
Project controls technician (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Develop work breakdown and coding structures to meet the scope laid out in the projects’ technical information and specification, ensuring that the controls will monitor project progress and performance accurately.
- Manage data: source, retrieve, check, edit, format, record and analyse data – using it to create relevant time, cost and resource reports.
- Estimate: develop cost estimates for defined scopes of work, create appropriate benchmarks, analyse quotes from sub- contractors and suppliers, and input to tenders and the early stages of projects.
- Schedule and plan: break down the scope into activities to create a logical linked control schedule to input to the development of outline and integrated plans and baseline schedules; identify critical milestones; gather accurate progress data for controlling the schedule; and monitor progress.
- Cost engineer and control: prepare control budgets, carry out cost control activities, gather and interpret cost data, monitor progress on a regular basis, interpret trends and forecasts; keep in line with contractual requirements, maintain baselines; ensure accurate reporting and control.
- Monitor progress/performance and analyse data: associated with milestones, schedules, progress, manpower, resource and costs; undertake earned value analysis, create progress reports and identify variances from plan and likely consequences if no corrective action is taken.
- Use computer based technology: model potential trends and resource use etc. using the right software package for the right task.
- Problem solve: recommend early corrective actions to reduce variances, identify issues and risks, present and maintain related action plans and contingencies.
- Effectively communicate: with good interpersonal skills and share the right information with the right people in an appropriate format to enable effective project control.
- Input to project closeout: generate key benchmarks and outturns including lessons learnt.
- Observe and apply professional ethics, and maintain a duty of care.
- Apply safety in the context of the role: comply with relevant national and international health, safety and environmental requirements.
- Work in accordance with company management systems, policies and procedures: especially those relating to quality, data security, risk, change and document management.
Training schedule
Associate project manager Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard.
More training information
This role is based in the Sheffield office and may offer flexible and hybrid working throughout the programme. You will be required to attend the majority of your course training at our Training Centre in Eakring, Newark. This could include multiple and frequent nights away from home. Stakeholder and site-based meetings are likely to occur in this role too, which may involve travelling to locations that are not your office base.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted 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 employer
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 doesn’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.
https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk (opens in new tab)
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
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will join National Grid as a L3 Project Control Technician.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NATIONAL GRID PLC
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003541.
Apply now
Closes on Thursday 19 February 2026
Sign in with your GOV.UK One Login to apply.
After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.