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Project Management Apprenticeship
Location: Warrington (WA4 6HL)
Closing Date: Monday 7 December 2026
Posted on: 15 October 2026
Wage: £27,381 a year
Training Course: Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Duration: 2 years
Positions Available: 1
Summary
As a Project Management Degree Apprentice at Babcock, you’ll be working towards a BSc in Project Management and contribute to projects that are essential to national security. Gain real-world experience, learn from industry experts, and play a key role in delivering projects that help create a safer, more secure world.
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
Getting things to happen how they should, when they should, safely and within budget is both a science and an art. On this 4-year programme, you’ll learn exactly how it’s done.
As a Project Management Degree Apprentice, you’ll work on real projects, ensuring we meet time, cost, and quality requirements. From cutting-edge design and manufacturing to in-service support and innovative capability enhancement, you’ll be responsible for delivering some of our most business-critical projects from start to finish.
You’ll develop both the technical expertise and essential soft skills needed to excel in project management. This includes honing your presentation, communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills, as well as advanced planning techniques. Throughout the programme, you’ll put these skills into practice by leading multi-skilled teams, managing stakeholder expectations, assessing risks, and navigating the complexities of delivering large-scale projects.
Where You'll Work
Warrington WA4 6HL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider: UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
Training Course: Project manager (integrated degree) (level 6)
What You'll Learn
- 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.
- 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.
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Training Schedule
You’ll work towards a BSc in Project Management through a structured degree apprenticeship in partnership with the University of Plymouth. Your academic learning will be delivered online via virtual day release, where you’ll take part in interactive lectures, seminars, and workshops designed to build your theoretical understanding of project management principles and practices. The remainder of your time will be spent onsite at Babcock, where you’ll apply your learning in a real-world setting. You’ll develop practical skills, gain valuable industry experience, and deepen your understanding of your role by contributing to live projects and working alongside experienced professionals.
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Requirements
Essential Qualifications
- GCSE: Any subject (grade 4(C) and above)
- A Level: Any subject (grade C or above)
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
Other Requirements
Many of our apprenticeship programmes are subject to Security Clearance and Trade Control restrictions, which means that your place of birth, nationality, citizenship, or residency you hold or have held may impact which programmes you are eligible for. For this programme, you must be able to achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) clearance. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: National Security Vetting Clearance Levels.
About This Employer
Babcock is an international defence, aerospace, and security company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France, and South Africa, with exports to additional markets with potential to become focus countries. We meet our customers’ key requirements of affordability, availability, and capability by delivering engineering, support, and critical systems to defence and civil markets. Learn more.
Company Benefits
- Fully funded qualification
- Personal development training and opportunities
- 28 days holiday allowance including bank holidays
- Competitive pension scheme
- Employee share scheme
- Flexible benefits
- 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
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay here.
Upon completing your apprenticeship, you will progress to the role of Project Assistant. From there, we will provide support and guidance to help you advance on your career path towards becoming a Project Manager– and beyond. Through the Babcock Role Framework, you’ll have a clear view of how your career can progress, with mapped-out pathways, development opportunities, and the tools you need to get wherever you want to go.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is: UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000058708.
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