Apprentice Project Manager

Arcadis

Birmingham (B3 3AG)

Closes on Friday 9 January 2026

Posted on 17 November 2025

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Summary

As a Project Manager you’ll be working within a diverse team, cultivating a deep understanding of our sectors, building long-term relationships with clients and colleagues, and finding ways to improve ways in which we work.

• Wage:

  £23,900 a year

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• Training course: Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
• Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm

  38 hours a week

• Start date:

  Monday 31 August 2026

• Duration:

  5 years

• Positions available:

  3

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

The apprentice will work under the supervision of and support several professional consultants on the delivery of construction projects for a variety of clients, on a wide range of projects in the Local Government Sector from initial concept (including supporting on grant funding applications) through to outline / detailed design, procurement, delivery and handover.  

Typical tasks and activities include:

• Preparation and maintenance of key project documents such as action trackers and minutes, risk registers, project execution plans etc
• Review of project programmes and monitoring thereof.
• Monitor the expenditure against predefined budgets of costs including professional fees, surveys and investigations, and construction
• Collate, analyse and report on cost, schedule and risk performance data, utilising digital toolsets to efficiently visualise and communicate insights for project teams
• Review technical design drawings and management plans to understand the scope and constraints of a project and support scope change control procedures
• Undertake on the job training on a range of industry leading tools and procedures, and, along with the learning from their part-time degree course, apply these skills to ongoing project activities

Where you'll work

103 Colmore Row
Birmingham
B3 3AG

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

Training course

Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Governance Frameworks: Lead and take responsibility for the project management plan as required by the governance structure. Apply techniques and project management methodologies as appropriate, dependent upon project complexity and criticality to the organisational environment in which a project is being delivered. Maintain, review and communicate a project business case for approval through the stages of a typical project lifecycle ensuring continued value for money and continued alignment with organisational objectives.
• The Business Environment: Identify and analyse the context, opportunities and challenges presented by projects in a range of organisational settings, appreciating the differences within both large and small organisations and in different industry sectors and the consequent need for tailoring. Identify the operating constraints that apply to projects including ethical, legal and regulatory considerations. This may include the green economy and the impacts of strategies for achieving net carbon zero by 2050.
• Stakeholder and communications management: Lead and take responsibility for the identification and analysis of internal and external stakeholders and their impact on the project. Manage an effective project communication plan across stakeholders with different cultural and physical barriers. Analyse information and communicate with stakeholders incorporating elements of feedback to understand and measure the effectiveness of planned communications. Effectively listen and influence others through negotiation and persuasion.
• Control of projects in terms of time, cost and quality: Manage the project within the constraints of time, cost and quality. Control expenditure and produce status reports as required, including control of costs against budgets, forecasting, and establishing performance indicators as required by funding sources. Measure progress and actual costs against plans to determine a full understanding of project performance. Identify, achieve and maintain quality standards appropriate to the context and specific requirements of project activities.
• Risk Management: Ensure that project risks, opportunities and issues are addressed using quantitative and qualitative methods to categorise risks and their impacts. Identify, evaluate and implement appropriate mitigation strategies, ensuring that mitigation actions are incorporated into the project plan and are implemented should they develop into issues. Manage risk through the regular review of a risk management plan, adopting appropriate strategies to manage both threats and opportunities.
• Commercial and Contract management: Maintain and evaluate different commercial contract and procurement types to select appropriate options for specific programmes and projects. Support effective contract management and the achievement of programme and project outcomes.
• Project Change Control: Dependent upon the size and complexity of a project, define and apply a recognised process to manage change in projects. Make effective decisions in the interests of a range of stakeholders with regards to change requests. Handle change within different project management methodologies.
• Schedule Management: Evaluate requirements and methods for data capture and analysis in a project environment. Evaluate project schedule integrity including identification and resolution of scheduling problems. Apply resource acquisition and management techniques to balance programme and project needs against resource demand. Negotiate the allocation and scheduling of internal and external resources to meet programme and project demands.

Training schedule

On this apprenticeship you will complete the BSc Project Management Degree Apprenticeship, on a day release basis, through our agreed training provider, Coventry University

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade Grade 4 or above)
• Maths (grade Grade 4 or above)

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
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

About this employer

Arcadis is a fantastic place to begin your career. It’s why we’re embracing a culture that puts people first. Where everyone has the opportunity to own their careers and transform their world. Where you can come together to work on industry-defining projects. And where your given the space to grow personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you. Wherever you work, whatever you do, as an Arcadian you have the chance to Improve Quality of life.

After this apprenticeship

• Following the apprenticeship, the apprentice can either develop further in their specialism or explore other routes and opportunities across our business

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001016.

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Closes on Friday 9 January 2026

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