Project Management Officer (PMO) Higher Apprentice - Warwick
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Gallows Hill (CV34 6DA)
Closes in 24 days (Saturday 3 January 2026)
Posted on 3 December 2025
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Summary
Within this role, you’ll be looking after the Project Management Office (PMO) with our planning, estimating, risk and reporting colleagues. You’ll gain experience in all aspects of estimating, risk and cost management.
- Wage
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£31,310 a year
- Training course
- Associate project manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday, daytime hours 0800-1600 or 0900-1700.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- 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
- Participating in scheme teams, preparing budget estimates for future construction projects through their development from business case to contract award.
- Supporting Project Managers and their teams during project delivery, gaining hands-on experience in project management.
- Maintain and update the Cost Book, using data from tender submissions and completed projects to reflect market trends and improve cost estimation accuracy.
- Support risk management activities, including helping to run risk workshops and analysing project risk registers to identify broader trends across the portfolio.
- Understanding how projects interact with each other and the operational constraints of a live system with National Grid’s outage plan.
- The opportunity to be involved in project planning and programme management of live projects.
By the end of your scheme, you’ll be supporting to make sure we hit the Network Output Measures plan; the projects that protect the asset health ratings which drive a large part of National Grid’s revenue.
Where you'll work
National Grid House
Warwick Technology Park
Gallows Hill
CV34 6DA
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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
- 2 A level's incl. Maths, Physics, Chemistry (grade A* - C)
- incl. Business Studies or Computing (grade A* - C)
BTEC in:
- Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering (grade Merit or Distinction)
- Quantity Surveying, Computing or Business Studies (grade Merit or Distinction)
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
Other requirements
Within the role, you will support the delivery of one of our major infrastructure projects within Strategic Infrastructure, and therefore, you will be required to live within a 45–60-minute commutable distance of the following postcode: CV34 6DA. You will be required to travel to our site locations annually you’re expected to travel more than 10,000 miles for business. A driving licence is required for this role, so if you do not already have one you must have obtained one by 31st May 2026.
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 doesn’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.
https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
26 days annual leave + statutory holidays. Pension scheme and sharesave options. Flexible benefits and more.
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 Associate Project Manager.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NATIONAL GRID PLC
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003546.
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