Project Management Degree Apprentice
VICTREX MANUFACTURING LIMITED
Lancashire (FY5 4QD)
Closes in 26 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
Posted on 5 February 2026
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Summary
We are looking for a Project Management Apprentice to join our Project Management team. You'll receive first class, on the job, training from a dedicated team, whilst earning a competitive salary - not to mention an industry recognised degree-level qualification too.
- Wage
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£20,972.60 a year
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Whilst you may be in training, you can be sure that you will be rewarded as your confidence and skills grow in role. This means your salary will increase on your journey to becoming a skilled & competent project manager.
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm.
36 hours 24 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- 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
As a Project Management Apprentice, you’ll gain a combination of virtual classroom and on-the-job learning, playing a key role in supporting the successful delivery of a wide range of business and innovation projects. From day one, you’ll be immersed in real project environments, working closely with experienced Project Managers and project Sponsors to understand project strategy, identify risks and issues, and help ensure delivery to agreed cost, quality, and time targets.
In the early stages of the apprenticeship, you will focus on building core project management capabilities - consistently applying your learning to your role at Victrex, creating high-level project plans, maintaining project documentation, and supporting effective communication across project teams.
As you grow in confidence and capability, you will take on increasing responsibility:
- Shadowing Project Managers to understand delivery best practice
- Supporting project delivery and managing defined project workstreams
- Leading clearly scoped internal projects with appropriate supervision
- Progressing to independently managing and delivering your own projects, applying the full project management lifecycle
Where you'll work
Victrex Technology Centre
Hillhouse International
Thornton Cleveleys
Lancashire
FY5 4QD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
QA LIMITED
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 is a structured 48‑month programme designed to help you develop into a fully capable Project Manager. Throughout, you will work towards gaining a Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship in Project Management, supported by hands‑on experience, mentorship, and formal training.
Successful applicants will join our 2026 Apprenticeship Intake in September, becoming part of a future talent pipeline with real opportunities for long‑term progression and impact.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level 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
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Practical science experience
About this employer
Victrex is an innovative world leader in high performance materials, serving a diverse range of markets. Every day, millions of people rely on products or applications which contain our polymers, from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to oil & gas platforms and medical devices.
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Company benefits
- Bonus scheme
- Pension Scheme where 5% employee contributions will attract contributions of 12% by Victrex
- Private medical insurance
- 29 days annual leave
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
- Project Manager role
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
QA LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000013206.
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Closes in 26 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
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