Assistant Project Manager Higher Apprentice - Bristol
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Bristol (BS1 4DJ)
Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
Posted on 18 November 2025
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Summary
Joining a Higher Apprentice programme at National Grid gives you the opportunity to be responsible for the successful planning and delivery of project work, with real responsibility from day one.
- Wage
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£31,310 a year
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26 days holiday Pensions and share-option scheme Flexible Benefits & Working Close mentorship and regular feedback Volunteering opportunities
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday, daytime hours (0800-1600, 0900-1700).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
The Assistant Project Manager Higher Apprentice role at National Grid sits within our Infrastructure Delivery team, which leads the execution of major energy projects across the UK. These projects include building and upgrading substations and transmission lines, which are critical components that ensure electricity and gas are delivered safely and reliably.
By working closely with internal teams and external partners, you’ll help drive the UK’s energy transition, making the grid more resilient and ready for clean, low-carbon power. One of our key initiatives is the Great Grid Upgrade, which connects more renewable energy to homes and businesses across England and Wales. As an Assistant Project Manager Higher Apprentice, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the future of energy, gaining hands-on experience while contributing to National Grid’s sustainability goals.
Within this role, you’ll gain experience in every stage of the project lifecycle, from early planning and stakeholder engagement to construction and final commissioning, including:
- Support Project Planning & Coordination: Assist in organising project activities, schedules, and resources to help ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Maintain Documentation & Communication: Keep accurate project records and facilitate clear communication between internal teams, contractors, and stakeholders.
- Monitor Progress & Identify Risks: Track project milestones, flag potential delays or issues, and support risk management by helping develop mitigation strategies.
- Assist with Budget & Reporting: Help monitor project spending, prepare financial reports, and ensure budget compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Conduct Site Visits & Quality Checks: Participate in site inspections to review construction progress, ensure safety and quality standards are met, and engage with local stakeholders to gather feedback.
You will be required to travel to our site locations, which will include spending nights regularly away from home. Annually you’re expected to travel more than 10,000 miles for business across our regions (depending on where you are based) in England and Wales (North / Central / London & South). Due to the extensive amount of travel and site presence needed in this role, you’ll be eligible for a role requirement company car (no cash alternative).
Where you'll work
Broad Quay House
Broad Quay
Bristol
BS1 4DJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NATIONAL GRID PLC
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 Apprenticeship Standard.
More training information
As part of your programme, you’ll also be required to attend our National Grid Training Centre based at Eakring, Newark.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
BTEC 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Patience
- Adaptable
- Safety
- Reliable
- Responsible
About this employer
National Grid is at the heart of the energy future, and our people are at the heart of National Grid. We’re 30,000 colleagues strong. In the UK, National Grid don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt. The world of energy is changing beyond recognition as we focus on building a cleaner, greener future. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come. Net-zero targets are transforming the way we work and increasing the scope of the positive impact we can make. Right now, we’re looking for apprentices to join us. Our people in Network Services work across a number of teams to keep the lights on for our customers. They might be helping a customer who has lost supply or supporting a developer building a multi-million pound project. They maintain a 24/7 service from faults and maintenance, asset replacement to new connections, working outdoors with underground cables, overhead lines and substations that operate between 230 and 132,000 volts, their work is critical to everything we do.
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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
Upon successful completion of the programme, you will join National Grid as an Assistant EPC Project Manager.
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NATIONAL GRID PLC
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001046.
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Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
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