Level 6 Project Manager Apprentice
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Warrington (WA4 4AD)
Closes in 23 days (Monday 2 February 2026)
Posted on 5 January 2026
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Summary
As a Project Management Apprentice you will help to deliver projects that enable businesses to solve real-world challenges with the latest technologies. You’ll assist both internal and external stakeholders in delivering projects that create meaningful results across industry and academia.
- Wage
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£24,340 a year
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Throughout the course of your apprenticeship you will receive annual increments in line with policy
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 3 September 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- 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
- Supporting the delivery of Hartree Centre projects, helping meet agreed goals and deadlines.
- Assisting with planning tasks, tracking progress, and maintaining project documentation.
- Following established guidelines, techniques, and tools for project management and planning, adapting the delivery methodology as appropriate to the situation
- Working with team members and stakeholders to ensure clear communication and smooth project delivery.
- Helping identify and manage risks, resolve issues, and raise them when needed.
- Contributing to improving processes and learning best practices in project management.
Where you'll work
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Daresbury Laboratory
Warrington
WA4 4AD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
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
Online (live sessions) and face-to-face at the Annual Summer School.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade 4 or above)
Other 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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.
https://www.ukri.org/councils/stfc/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
30 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas Shutdown.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Employee Discount Scheme.
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
Further career and training opportunities.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005861.
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Closes in 23 days (Monday 2 February 2026)
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