Apprentice Project Manager

TETRA TECH LIMITED

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester, Southampton

Closes on Saturday 14 February 2026

Posted on 23 December 2025

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Summary

Joining the Project & Cost Management team, you will support Project Managers in managing projects, working closely with clients & stakeholders to develop and deliver successful projects. You will be supported working towards managing your own projects whilst studying for a degree in project Management. 

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

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  • Annual salary pay review

Training course
Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday 7.5 hours per day. No shifts or weekends. Start and finish times will typically be 9am - 5.30pm

38 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Duration

4 years

Positions available

10

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

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Assisting in delivering projects to the value of £250m across both Public and Private sectors
  • Assisting in preparing tender and contract documents
  • Ensuring internal governance is adhered to
  • Assisting in the management and delivery of construction projects
  • Assisting in the development of works and resource management
  • Facilitating project progress meetings with the project team
  • Implementing change control management
  • Supporting senior staff in delivering business objectives

Where you'll work

You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.

This apprenticeship is available in these locations:

  • 1 Victoria Square, Birmingham, B1 1BD
  • 90 Victoria Street, Bristol, BS1 6DP
  • 3 Sovereign Square, Sovereign Street, Leeds, LS1 4ER
  • 1 Angel Court, London, EC2R 7HJ
  • 2nd floor, 11 York Street, Manchester, M2 2AW
  • The Pavilion, Grange Drive, Hedge End, Southampton, SO30 2AF

Training

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

Training provider

LONDON METROPOLITAN 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

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 GCSE's Including Englishand Maths (grade 9- 4 /A*- C)

A Level in:

3 A'levels (grade BBB)

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
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working

Other requirements

  • Suitability for Security clearance

About this employer

Tetra Tech operates in more than 50 offices throughout Europe with workforce of more than 5,000 technical experts who are collectively Leading with Science® to unlock sustainable development and solve complex challenges facing the UK’s built and natural environment. 

https://www.tetratecheurope.com/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

  • 25 days annual leave
  • birthday day off
  • contributory pension
  • Health cash plan

Disability Confident

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

  • After completing this apprenticeship, you expected career path is Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Senior Project Manager 

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000006405.

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Closes on Saturday 14 February 2026

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