Project Management Level 6 Apprentice
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
Oxford (OX4 4XU)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
Posted on 11 February 2026
Contents
Summary
Join us as a Project Manager Apprentice, you’ll gain hands-on experience across the full project life cycle with the Capital Delivery team and earn a Level 6 Project Management qualification. Learn budget, procurement, and sponsorship skills while contributing to services for millions of customers.
- Wage
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£23,500 a year
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Hours: 36-hour week over four working days plus one training day Mon-Fri. Shifts TBC.
36 hours 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
What you’ll be doing as a Project Management Apprentice:
- Work with experienced Project Managers to apply Thames Water’s five-stage project process
- Monitor progress, analyse performance, and proactively address issues and opportunities
- Learn and apply Health & Safety, OFWAT, DWI, and Environment Agency standards
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and develop communication and engagement skills
- Take on a challenging learning curve with opportunities to grow throughout the apprenticeship
- Lead projects contributing to Thames Water’s Carbon Net Zero 2030 ambitions
Where you'll work
Sewage Works
Sandford-On-Thames
Oxford
OX4 4XU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
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
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Knowledge, skills and behaviours as set out in the Project Manager Level 6 Apprenticeship Standard
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BSc Hons Project Management and APM PMQ qualifications
- Weekly online tuition, occasional face-to-face sessions in Lancaster or Carlisle, and optional Project Manager Summer sessions.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
Full UK Driving License
Business travel insurance
About this employer
Who are we? We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come
https://careers.thameswater.co.uk/our-roles/early-careers/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance targets
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances
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
Permanent contract with a 48-month structured programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014660.
Apply now
Closes in 22 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
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