Degree Apprenticeship Project Manager
KBS MARITIME LIMITED
Hampshire, Portsmouth (PO1 3LS)
Closes on Thursday 5 March 2026
Posted on 18 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Take on responsibility of managing projects and workstreams. Learn how to plan project delivery, from scheduling, identifying risks and opportunities, to developing and maintaining resource plans.
- Wage
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£19,000 a year
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Subject to pay reviews during the course of the apprenticeship.
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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4 days on site, 1 day further education. (Monday-Friday) Exact shifts TBC.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 22 September 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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3
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
During the apprenticeship, you’ll learn to monitor your projects, tracking everything from budget to quality through the project lifecycle. Learn what it takes to respond appropriately to challenges and how to adapt to change.
· Develop project management techniques and skills through training and coaching
· Assist with project planning
· Assist in delivering projects
· Support project execution
· Collaborate with project team members
· Communicate with stakeholders
Where you'll work
Victory Building (PP72), 1st Floor/West Wing,
The Parade, HM Naval Base,
Hampshire, Portsmouth
PO1 3LS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH
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
Upon completion, you will receive a BSc (Hons) degree in Project Management. Apprentices are required to achieve an APM’s Project Management Qualification prior to the End Point Assessment.
This apprenticeship requires attendance one day per week on Campus at the University of Portsmouth.
Requirements
Desirable 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
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Due to the high-level security nature of the organisation, it is imperative that the following two criteria can be met: a) You must have the RTW in the UK b) You must be a UK National (must not be on any working visa, except indefinite right to remain)
About this employer
KBS Maritime works in partnership with the Royal Navy to de-conflict delivery of up to 300 infrastructure projects per year. This ranges from routine life-cycle replacement projects through to the implementation of new systems. Through our project delivery partners, we ensure that the Navy gets best value from their allocated funding and secure third-party funding for commercial projects.
https://kbsmaritime.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Annual leave package, Competitive pension, Cycle to work scheme, Internal Discount portfolio, Life Assurance.
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
If successful in the completion of your apprenticeship, you will be given the opportunity to apply for a project management role within KBS Maritime.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001115.
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Closes on Thursday 5 March 2026
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