Project Manager Apprentice
SEC-Group
STEVENAGE (SG1 2BD)
Closes on Thursday 15 January 2026
Posted on 4 December 2025
Contents
Summary
This is an exciting role that assists the project team to plan, coordinate and deliver work on time, on budget and to quality standards. Duties include tracking tasks and deadlines, maintaining project documentation, helping run meetings and risk logs, coordinating stakeholders and assisting with reporting and budget monitoring.
- Wage
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£17,000 a year
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 08:30 to 17:00
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 1 March 2026
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Planning support: updating schedules, creating task lists, preparing materials for project reviews.
- Communication: writing meeting notes, chasing actions, liaising with internal and external stakeholders.
- Control & reporting: logging risks/issues, updating dashboards and progress reports, helping monitor costs and timelines.
- Learning & training: attending on-the-job coaching sessions and formal apprenticeship modules or classes
- Earn while you learn, gain industry experience, qualifications and the opportunity for career progression.
Where you'll work
THE I O CENTRE. UNIT 11
WHITTLE WAY
ARLINGTON BUSINESS CENTRE
STEVENAGE
SG1 2BD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY
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
- BSc (Hons) Project Management
- Delivered via blended learning which is a combination of in-person teaching, distance and self-directed learning
More training information
- Health and Safety Awareness
- Project Management Communication
- Design Awareness
- Supported small project management
- Internal ERP system - hSUITE,
- Project Management software – Procore
- Mentorship from an experienced team member of the SEC Project Management team
Requirements
Desirable 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
- Team working
About this employer
SEC Group design, project manage and install all of our storage systems and commercial office fit-outs using a combination of operational analysis, data-driven design and industry experience to ensure our customers receive the best project delivery possible. SEC Group has created award-winning solutions for a broad range of clients throughout the UK.
A focus on leveraging technology has enabled SEC Group to develop unique processes, including AI and Machine Learning systems, that deliver our customers’ requirements time after time.
SEC Group has begun a journey that will utilise technology and data to transform a business, and the market, enabling SMEs globally to benefit, cost-effectively from the latest technology, and empowering UK businesses to compete effectively across Europe and the world.
After this apprenticeship
Future prospects for the successful candidate are to progress through the Project Management career path providing they meet the expectations of the roles in which they undertake. The career path looks like: Project Management Apprentice > Project Coordinator > Project Manager
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003986.
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Closes on Thursday 15 January 2026
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