Project Management Apprentice

J & J DESIGN LTD

Rossendale (BB46HR)

Closes in 17 days (Friday 26 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 8 September 2025

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Summary

The apprentice will be overall responsible for delivering a project from the original tender and budgets and managing processes to deliver on time and budget effectively.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Salary dependant upon candidates.

Training course
Associate project manager (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5pm, Fridays 8:30am - 3pm

38 hours a week

Start date

Monday 29 September 2025

Duration

1 year 9 months

Positions available

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

General admin duties:

Filing, copying, organising project folders

Procurement:            

Learn good procurement techniques, purchasing materials etc., manage these on a project to order in sufficient time to suit the works, discuss with the site teams for actual requirements proactively

Project monitoring:

Mark up plans of progress to date to determine programme and values, calculate % for applications for payment and compare to invoices received

Sprinkler rules:                

  • Learn the basic rules i.e. head spacing requirements to identify any errors, commercial awareness, understand the contractual relationships
  • Monthly claims for money
  • Cost and value monitoring & reporting

Overall responsible for delivering a project from the original tender and budgets and managing all the above process to deliver on time and budget effectively.

Where you'll work

Riverside House
New Hall Hey Road
Rossendale
BB46HR

Training

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

Training provider

BURNLEY COLLEGE

Training course

Associate project manager (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
  • Manage and engage with stakeholders.
  • Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
  • Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
  • Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
  • Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
  • Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
  • Monitor and analyse project budgets.
  • Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
  • Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
  • Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
  • Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
  • Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
  • Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
  • Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
  • Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
  • Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
  • Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
  • Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
  • Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
  • Work within the approved project budget.
  • Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
  • Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
  • Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
  • Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
  • Manages resources through the project lifecycle.
  • Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
  • Manage and engage with stakeholders.
  • Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
  • Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
  • Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
  • Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
  • Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
  • Monitor and analyse project budgets.
  • Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
  • Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
  • Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
  • Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
  • Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
  • Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
  • Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
  • Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
  • Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
  • Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
  • Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
  • Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
  • Work within the approved project budget.
  • Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
  • Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
  • Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
  • Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
  • Manages resources through the project lifecycle.

Training schedule

Associate Project Manager Level 4.

The apprentice will train one day per week at Burnley College. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade A*-C/9-4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

Any site visits may be earlier starts dependant upon distance to sites.

About this employer

We are a fire engineering company specialising in design, project management, installation and maintenance of fixed fire protection systems. Our projects range from individual dwellings and services to large scale distribution warehouses. J&J operate throughout the UK and Ireland.

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After this apprenticeship

Potential progression into full-time employment on successful completion of the apprenticeship. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BURNLEY COLLEGE

Themis Team

themis@burnley.ac.uk

01282 733005

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340728.

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Closes in 17 days (Friday 26 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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