Apprentice- Level 4 Project Management

At HS2 we offer a two-year apprenticeship programme, providing you with the opportunity to stretch and challenge yourself whilst we support you to implement your learning. Our Apprenticeships enable you to build project management experience across the HS2 project.

HS2 Apprentices join us in September 2025, where you will have a full Induction into HS2 and meet your apprentice cohort. Our apprentices attend a learning week every 6 months, which is designed to develop core skills, knowledge and behaviours required on the HS2 Project. You will be are supported by your day-to-day team and the Talent and Development team, where regular team meetings are set up weekly, 1:1’s are provided, and every apprentice is assigned a mentor for their durations as well as a team buddy.

As a Project Management Apprentice, you’ll transform insight into impact. With real responsibilities, you’ll discover how to organise, plan, and make decisions about how we’ll build the new railway - and transform Britain. You will be supporting project teams to assist with ensuring our delivery partners deliver according to time, cost, quality, safety, and environmental specifications. The various opportunities across the HS2 programme will allow you to be placed into a range of teams including but not limited to, Delivery, Construction, Commercial and our Integrated Project teams. This will allow you to gain the necessary experience to undertake the APM PMQ (Association for Project Management) qualification.

The Apprenticeship Programme will span over a period of two years, which will involve working at HS2 and studying at a training provider/college. As part of the apprenticeship, you will gain an internationally recognised Level 4 qualification in Project Management.

**About the role**:
Project Stakeholder Management

Liaise with the Project Team, Directorate, and functional teams on a regular basis

Project Context

Support the Project Management Team to assure the management of health, safety and security by the appointed supply chain meets the required standards

Resource Management

Monitor, analyse and advise where appropriate on project in relation to time, cost and resource

Risk and issue management

Work with Project Management Team to identify and analyse project risks, including providing support in the development of contingency plans through appropriate risk management/mitigation strategies.

Contract administration

Support Project Managers to review and manage works information where required

Reporting

Support Project Management Team in the development of routine reports to enable effective decision making

**Accountabilities**:
Accountable for meeting deadlines as agreed with the placement manager

Accountable for managing time to ensure course work is completed as agreed with the apprenticeship provider

Maintaining and recording placement information to support with the apprenticeship qualification

Maintaining information as agreed with the placement manager

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

**Learning**:
Attendance to training provider sessions

Complete all work aligned to the apprenticeship programme

Completion of the apprenticeship programme

**About You**:
Communication Skills: The ability to communicate with stakeholders at various levels within an organisation

Interpersonal and relationship skills: The ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues and contacts across the organisation and outside with external partners

Prioritisation Skills: The ability to organise your workload and meet agreed deadlines to deliver activities/projects in a timely manner and ensuring quality

Ability to follow process: Working to a process to achieve an outcome and/or identify improvements to existing processes

Collaborative Working: The ability to work independently and as part of a team to achieve positive outcomes

**Knowledge**:
IT: Knowledge of and experience of using MS Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

**Type of experience**:
To join us on an Apprenticeship Programme, you’ll need to have achieved or expect to achieve 5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including English and Maths or equivalent

**Behavioural Competencies**:
The post-holder is always expected to behave in a manner consistent with HS2 company values

**Our Apprenticeship programme salaries**:
Salaries are currently pending pay review however please see below figures based on 2024.

London locations (inside M25):
Level4/Year1 - basic salary of £18,583 plus 10% flexible allowance = £20,441.30

Non-London Locations:
Level4/Year1 - basic salary of £17,550 plus 10% flexible allowance = £ 19,305

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