Apprentice (Assistant Project Coordinator)

As an Apprentice Assistant Project Coordinator, you’ll learn:

• Construction techniques employed in building new assets, and why some are favoured over others
• About different types of contracts, where they are employed and how to administer them commercially
• People skills, for managing conflict, negotiation and health and safety behaviours
• About the water and wastewater network and process, and the requirement to build new assets
• About health, safety, welfare and environmental management, the law, the requirements and how to review if these are being met.
• How to review things against standards or guidelines to ensure that the quality required is met
• How important customer and stakeholder management are to successful construction management

You’ll work closely with our Project teams in the Construction Delivery. The team is involved with a variety of different construction projects including improvements to existing Water and Wastewater works, laying new pipe through fields and towns, building shafts and tunnels and installing new security measures. This type of work can be disruptive to our customers and stakeholders so during the apprenticeship you will learn how to be the expert on all things customer within the project team. You will work closely with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Manager and many others in the project team to ensure customers are communicated to and the impact of our work is kept to a minimum.

Your apprenticeship will last 24 months, and successful apprentices will achieve an Associate Project Manager, Level: 4 standard, endorsed by the Institute for Apprenticeships.

The right candidate could move into a role as an Associate Project Manager.

Every apprentice is guaranteed a permanent position at the end of their scheme as long as they meet all necessary standards and behaviour criteria throughout the programme.