Associate Project Manager (apprenticeship Level 4)

Overview

Role: Associate Project Manager (Apprenticeship Level 4)

Location: UK London or Oxford (Harwell) - Hybrid working

Duration: 12-18 months

Role ID: 2023-2057

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Key Responsibilities

We are currently looking for an associate project manager (apprentice) to work in our Emissions Inventories group, with the Air Quality and Environment team. The successful candidate will work alongside experienced project managers on a range of small and larger, high profile projects. Attention to detail, ability to take ownership of tasks and work as a part of a team are essential characteristics.

Formal training will be provided by a dedicated training provider and supplemented by on-the job training. This will include:

• Project governance - Project monitoring and reporting cycle to track, assess and interpret performance by the application of monitoring techniques to analyse status and manage information.
• Stakeholder and communications management - Manage stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests. Manage conflicts and negotiations. Communicate to a variety of different audiences. Contribute to negotiations relating to project objectives.
• Budgeting and cost control - Develop and agree project budgets, monitor forecast and actual costs against them and control changes. Support funding submissions. Tracking systems for actual costs, accruals and committed costs; structures for alternative cost breakdowns.
• Business case - Contribute to the preparation or maintenance of a business case including achieving required outcomes.
• Scope management - Determine, control and manage changes to the scope of a project, including assumptions, dependencies and constraints.
• Consolidated planning - Consolidate and document the fundamental components of projects. Monitor progress against the consolidated plan and refine as appropriate, implementing the change control process where relevant.
• Schedule management - Prepare and maintain schedules for activities aligned to project delivery.
• Risk, and issue management - Identify and monitor project risk or opportunity, plan and implement responses to them, contribute to a risk management plan. Respond to and manage issues within a defined governance structure.
• Contract management and procurement - Facilitate a procurement process, contribute to the definition of contractual agreements and contribute to managing a contract.
• Quality management - Develop a quality management plan, manage project assurance, and contribute to peer reviews. Utilise an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned.
• Resource management - Develop resource management plans for project activities, acquire and manage resources including commitment acceptance, monitor progress against plans.
• 1 day per week of ‘off the job’ training, delivered by Learning Curve Group.
• Final assessment

Key Competencies and Experience

• Math and English GCSEs at grades 6-9 (or equivalent)
• A-levels or equivalent
• Microsoft Office skills, including Word and Excel, but training will be provided
• Applicants will ideally have an interest in air quality, climate change or other environmental issues

Skills and Behaviours

• Excellent English-language written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills for engaging with colleagues and customers
• Strong ability to take responsibility and work with colleagues to get things done
• Effective and proactive team-worker
• Excellent organisation and time management skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.