Project Management Degree Apprentice
OCS GROUP UK LIMITED
Suffolk (IP3 9SJ)
Closes in 24 days (Saturday 30 May 2026)
Posted on 5 May 2026
Contents
Summary
You’ll be part of a team, working across business projects that support our operations and customers.
- Support the planning, coordination and delivery of projects
- Monitor project risks, schedules and resources
- Contribute to project documentation
- Bring fresh thinking and creative problem-solving
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 June 2026
- Duration
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3 years 4 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Support the planning, coordination and delivery of real business projects
- Work with project managers and stakeholders across the organisation
- Monitor project risks, schedules and resources
- Contribute to project documentation and reporting
- Bring fresh thinking and creative problem-solving to the team
Where you'll work
New Century House
The Havens
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP3 9SJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK
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
The learning will take place once a week, term time at the University of Suffolk.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Analytical skills
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
OCS is a leading international facilities management company delivering essential services across sectors including healthcare, education, transport, defence, and commercial workplaces.
After this apprenticeship
- Project Management
- People Manager
- Business Analyst
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
OCS GROUP UK LIMITED
Steph Cox
steph.cox@OCS.com
07387020784
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000029966.
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Closes in 24 days (Saturday 30 May 2026)
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