Job Description
The Heathrow Shared Apprenticeship Scheme is one of the UK’s most exciting apprenticeship programmes. The scheme provides career changing opportunities for residents close to the airport.
A Trainee Project Manager works with project teams, stakeholders, and clients to help ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. The role develops skills in scheduling, risk management, communication, reporting, and stakeholder engagement while gaining practical workplace experience.
Duties typically include:
- Assist with planning, scheduling and coordinating project activities.
- Support projects throughout the project lifecycle, from initiation to completion.
- Monitor project progress and report on performance, milestones and deliverables.
- Prepare and maintain project documentation, reports and records.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders to support project delivery.
- Assist with resource planning, budget monitoring and task allocation.
- Identify and escalate project risks and issues where appropriate.
- Support quality assurance, continuous improvement and lessons learned activities.
- Work in line with organisational policies, legislation and governance requirements.
On completion, the standard aligns with the Association for Project Management for Associate Membership.
Typical Working Week
40 hours p/w with start time typically between 07:00 & 08:00 inclusive of paid 8 hours at college.
Person Specification
- Proactive approach, taking pride in their work and taking accountability for decisions.
- A love of variety in a role and ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced working environment
- Ability to quickly prioritise tasks and the initiative to dive head-first into problem solving
- No two days are the same on the front line and not every day goes to plan, so you’ll need to be quick on your feet to respond!
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoy working with multiple teams
- Ability to analyse and interpret information and effectively communicate this to different team members and audiences
- Ability to visit different sites and training days
- Curiosity to learn quickly in a reactive and dynamic working environment.
- Ability to work in all weather conditions to serve our customers and protect the environment
- Able to understand and follow health and safety protocols
Minimum Requirements
English and Maths at GCSE Grade 4 / C or above, or Functional Skills at Level 2 or above.
Desired Requirements
Enthusiasm and a strong interest in project management, with a desire to develop a career in the field.
Key Training/College Information
- K10 will enrol you to the Level 4 Associate Project Management course and fund your qualifications through an accredited training provider.
- The apprenticeship duration is 24 months.
Eligibility
To start this apprenticeship, you’ll need to be:
- Living in England for the last 3 years and have right to work status
- Not enrolled on any other courses
- 18+ due to site H&S rules
The Heathrow Shared Apprenticeship Scheme seeks to support our sustainability strategy ‘Connecting people and planet’, and our ambition to make Heathrow a great place to live and work for our colleagues and local neighbours. As such, certain opportunities are currently available only to individuals living in the 9 local boroughs surrounding Heathrow. These are:
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Ealing
- Spelthorne
- Windsor & Maidenhead
- South Buckinghamshire
- Elmbridge
- Slough
- Runnymede
Who We Are
We are UK’s largest construction-specific Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency. Founded in 2009, we are an award-winning social enterprise with a passion to convert potential.
Our aim is to place our learners in sustainable employment on projects in their local area. To do this, we collaborate with government, referral organisations, local authorities, developers, contractors, and colleges, to deliver apprenticeship programmes specifically designed to upskill the future of construction.
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Your data will be used solely for the purposes of assessing your suitability for the role and for related recruitment activities. If you are unsuccessful, we will retain your personal data for 24 months following the conclusion of the recruitment process, after which it will be securely deleted, unless we are required to retain it for legal or regulatory reasons.
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INDMP
Job Types: Full-time, Apprenticeship
Pay: £14.80 per hour
Application question(s):
- For catchment and eligibility purposes, what is your current postcode?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (preferred)
Work Location: In person
