Assistant Project Manager – Apprentice Project Manager
Cast Consultancy
LONDON (EC1N 8JH)
Closes in 10 days (Monday 16 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 May 2025
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Summary
Cast Consultancy, a leading residential-focused firm, is hiring an Assistant Project Manager Apprentice for September 2025. Based in London with hybrid working, the role offers experience in delivery of residential developments. Enjoy great benefits, career development, and the chance to drive change in construction.
- Wage
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£27,500 a year
- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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4 years 9 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Working closely with a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager
- Become familiar with and develop your understanding of current challenges to the construction industry applying the lessons learned to your day-to-day project delivery.
- Develop an understanding of areas such as modern methods of construction and pre-manufactured value
- Develop communication skills, both internally and externally, written and verbal
- Understand any commercial documents relevant to your project including appointments, scope of services and fee cashflows
- Actively embrace our share and learn values and culture and promote with your peer group
- Develop relationships with the appropriate level representative for your clients and other professional team members
- Proactive development of the gaps in your knowledge of the project lifecycle
- Be able to produce and maintain a project development programme with guidance from others
- Understand the critical success factors, for all work stages of the project lifecycle, and be able to manage your role as part of these stages
Where you'll work
1ST FLOOR
BLACK BULL YARD
24-28 HATTON WALL
LONDON
EC1N 8JH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
Your training course
Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
- Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
- Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
- Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
- Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
- Land, property and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
- Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
- Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
- Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
- Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
Your training plan
- You will achieve a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accredited BSc (Hons) Construction Management
- You’ll study using UCEM’s state-of-the-art online learning environment and digital library, supported with guidance from highly experienced tutors
- Upon completion of the Bachelor’s degree and the structured workplace learning you will undertake the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence leading to registration with the RICS as a Chartered Surveyor
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade Grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
A Level or equivalent in:
any (grade 96 UCAS points)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
- Microsoft 365
- High standards of literacy
- High standards of numeracy
Other requirements
We are looking for a candidate with passion for the real estate and construction industry, and for innovation in service and through technology, willingness to tackle challenges to solve problems. The candidate will have great attention to detail and ability to multi-task, desire to develop your wider professional network and ability to take initiative and know when to take initiative without guidance.
About this company
Join us and drive change within the residential-led development and construction industry. Our mission is to drive industry change, deliver better outcomes and create future places. With us you can be part of the solution to the housing and environmental crises in the UK.
After this apprenticeship
- Once qualified, progression through the Cast career development programme (Assistant to Director)
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Cast Consultancy
Casey Gregan
casey.gregan@cast-consultancy.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318578.
Apply now
Closes in 10 days (Monday 16 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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