Apprentice PMO Coordinator

BRISTOL AIRPORT LIMITED

BRISTOL (BS48 3DW)

Closes in 21 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 18 September 2025

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Summary

To support the effective delivery of projects, programmes, and portfolios by providing high-quality administrative and coordination support to the PMO and project teams. This role is suitable for someone starting a career in project support, with training and development opportunities provided.

Wage

£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course
Project controls technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday-Friday (9.00am-5.00pm)

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 3 November 2025

Duration

2 years 6 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

  • Provide administrative and coordination support to project teams and the PMO
  • Assist in the effective delivery of projects, programmes, and portfolios
  • Maintain project documentation, records, and reports
  • Support data collection, analysis, and reporting on project progress
  • Communicate clearly with stakeholders, project managers, and team members

Where you'll work

Lulsgate House
Bristol Airpor
BRISTOL
BS48 3DW

Training

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

Training provider

T3 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD

Training course

Project controls technician (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Develop work breakdown and coding structures to meet the scope laid out in the projects’ technical information and specification, ensuring that the controls will monitor project progress and performance accurately.
  • Manage data: source, retrieve, check, edit, format, record and analyse data – using it to create relevant time, cost and resource reports.
  • Estimate: develop cost estimates for defined scopes of work, create appropriate benchmarks, analyse quotes from sub- contractors and suppliers, and input to tenders and the early stages of projects.
  • Schedule and plan: break down the scope into activities to create a logical linked control schedule to input to the development of outline and integrated plans and baseline schedules; identify critical milestones; gather accurate progress data for controlling the schedule; and monitor progress.
  • Cost engineer and control: prepare control budgets, carry out cost control activities, gather and interpret cost data, monitor progress on a regular basis, interpret trends and forecasts; keep in line with contractual requirements, maintain baselines; ensure accurate reporting and control.
  • Monitor progress/performance and analyse data: associated with milestones, schedules, progress, manpower, resource and costs; undertake earned value analysis, create progress reports and identify variances from plan and likely consequences if no corrective action is taken.
  • Use computer based technology: model potential trends and resource use etc. using the right software package for the right task.
  • Problem solve: recommend early corrective actions to reduce variances, identify issues and risks, present and maintain related action plans and contingencies.
  • Effectively communicate: with good interpersonal skills and share the right information with the right people in an appropriate format to enable effective project control.
  • Input to project closeout: generate key benchmarks and outturns including lessons learnt.
  • Observe and apply professional ethics, and maintain a duty of care.
  • Apply safety in the context of the role: comply with relevant national and international health, safety and environmental requirements.
  • Work in accordance with company management systems, policies and procedures: especially those relating to quality, data security, risk, change and document management.

Training schedule

  • 2 ½ Year Apprenticeship Programme
  • Project Controls Knowledge, skills & Behaviours – delivered in the workplace
  • Level 3 ECITB Diploma in Project Controls Practice.
  • End Point Assessment - Knowledge Test, Practical Test and Presentation/Interview

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4+)
  • Mathematics (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

Other requirements

• Awareness of project management frameworks (e.g., APM & Agile) • Experience using PMO tools or project collaboration software (e.g., MS Project & SharePoint)

About this employer

Bristol Airport is a key regional transport hub in the UK, serving as the international gateway for South West England and South Wales. The airport currently handles over 10 million passengers annually, with planning permission to expand to 12 million by the mid-2020s. The airport is actively investing in infrastructure to support its expansion goals and accommodate future passenger growth.

https://www.bristolairport.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

This role offers a foundation to develop toward:

  • PMO Analyst
  • Portfolio Controller (PMO)
  • Senior Portfolio Controller (PMO)

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

T3 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD

Will Mackintosh

Will.mackintosh@t3-training.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342780.

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Closes in 21 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)

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