Apprentice Project Manager
Manders Building Contractors Ltd
Earls Colne (CO6 2RN)
Closes in 19 days (Friday 5 December 2025)
Posted on 12 November 2025
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Summary
Supporting a project's delivery from start to finish, including project planning, documentation, and stakeholder communication, while developing professional skills through on-the-job training and formal study. You will also assist with managing resources, risks, and budgets to help the team achieve project goals on time and within scope.
- Wage
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£0 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am – 4:30pm with a half hour lunch break
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 December 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
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
- Shadowing current Project Manager both in office and on site
- Liaising with clients as to work projects
- Liaising with suppliers for materials etc
- All administration documentation associated with Project Management
- Liaising with HSEQ on Health & Safety matters pertaining to projects
Where you'll work
Whitegates
11 York Road
Earls Colne
CO6 2RN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COLCHESTER INSTITUTE
Training course
Associate project manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
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.
Training schedule
- The apprentice will be working towards the Associate Project Manager Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard and the Association for Project Management Level 4 Project Management Qualification
- Apprentices will need to attend college at Colchester Institute twice a month for the first 6 months and then once every 3 months for the remaining duration of the programme
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
There will be the need to travel between work sites and most of the work is situated outside. There will be an element of computer usage on some of our sites when necessary.
About this employer
Manders have been working in the Electricity Industry since 1996 and have extensive in-house capabilities offering a complete solution to building and civil maintenance. Manders’ management team along with our skilled operative team have many years experience working around the Electricity Network along with valuable site experience when dealing with the provisions required when planning and undertaking building maintenance work on Primary and Secondary Substations. We are an SME with 6 office based staff and 20 onsite operatives.
http://www.mandersbcl.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
20 days holiday excluding bank holidays, Company Pension Scheme
After this apprenticeship
Full-time Project Manager
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COLCHESTER INSTITUTE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000002.
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