Level 6 NRS Apprenticeship - Project Management 2026 - Sizewell
Nuclear Restoration Services
Leiston (IP16 4UE)
Closes in 31 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
Posted on 2 February 2026
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Summary
Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) is offering a wide range of apprenticeships at locations across the UK. Whether you're hands-on, prefer being out and about, love technology or enjoy fixing problems - NRS have an opportunity for you.
- Wage
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£24,857 a year
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Yearly performance based increments throughout your apprenticeship.
- Training course
- Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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37 hour working week - over 4 or 5 days depending on your site location, exact working days and hours TBC
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 August 2026
- Duration
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4 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
As a Project Management Apprentice, you will:
- Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of projects across the nuclear site
- Assist with scheduling, cost control, risk management, and reporting activities
- Learn how projects are governed and delivered in a highly regulated environment
- Work with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and stakeholders
- Apply project management tools and techniques to real-world challenges
Where you'll work
Sizewell A Power Station
Sizewell
Leiston
IP16 4UE
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
This Government-approved Level 6 Project Management Degree Apprenticeship provides in-depth academic and practical training in project management within the nuclear sector. The programme includes:
- A portion of your time will be spent studying at University of Cumbria
- Four days per week of practical, on-the-job project experience at the Sizewell A nuclear site
- Mentoring from experienced Project Management professionals
- Training in real-world nuclear environments where safety, quality, and governance are critical
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Interest in Project Management
Other requirements
There is a requirement to live within a commutable distance to the sites where the role is based. Due to the remote location of the sites, public transport availability is limited.
About this employer
As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, Nuclear Restoration Services is a world leader in its field, responsible for safely decommissioning the first generation of nuclear reactors and research sites across the UK and restoring the sites for all our futures. We are delivery focused, transformative, innovative, growing and working hard to future-proof the organisation by investing in our workforce, assets, communities, sites and surrounding landscapes to ensure we leave a sustainable nuclear legacy. NRS is at the forefront of the decommissioning industry, using the latest technology to safely retrieve, treat and package the UK’s nuclear legacy waste. Safety is at the heart of everything we do, preventing harm to our people, sites and the environment. We also strive to be a supportive and inclusive workplace, where protecting the mental health and wellbeing of our workforce is every bit as important as maintaining a strong safety record.
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Company benefits
25 days annual leave + public holidays
Option to buy/sell annual leave
Company pension scheme
Access to company bonus scheme after year 1
24/7 employee wellbeing and mental health services
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
What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?
- Project Management
- General Management
- Programme Management - strategic, responsible for a team of Project Managers
- Senior Management e.g. Head of Department, Director
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000012349.
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Closes in 31 days (Friday 6 March 2026)
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