Junior Project Manager

The Junior Project Manager supports the Pre-Construction Operations Manager in coordinating Guildmore's portfolio of live Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) projects and tender opportunities.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work:

• Support the Pre-Construction Operations Manager in coordinating multiple concurrent PCSAs and tenders, working across projects and locations in line with business priorities.
• Maintain a portfolio master tracker recording deliverables, owners, due dates, dependencies, approvals, status and overdue actions.
• Coordinate design actions, requests for information, technical queries and decisions; chase responses, record outcomes and escalate matters requiring senior input.
• Prepare meeting packs, agendas, minutes and action logs; issue them promptly and track evidenced close-out within agreed timescales.
• Maintain project risk, opportunity and interface trackers, highlighting emerging threats, constraints and required decisions.
• Prepare concise weekly project and portfolio dashboards covering progress, approvals, programme, risk, quality and information status.
• Liaise with internal teams, clients, consultants and supply chain partners to keep responsibilities aligned and deliverables progressing.

Training includes time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider: LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES

Training course: Associate project manager (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Use project monitoring and reporting techniques to track, interpret and report on performance.
• Manage and engage with stakeholders.
• Influence and negotiate with others to create a positive outcome for the project.
• Resolve conflict as and when required with stakeholders within limits of responsibility.
• Adapt communications to different stakeholders.
• Communicate and support the project vision, to ensure buy in to the project objectives.
• Collate and analyse information and provide input to support negotiations relating to project objectives.
• Monitor and analyse project budgets.
• Review and provide feedback on a project business case to ensure the project remains valid.
• Apply change control processes to support the management of project scope.
• Evaluate an integrated project management plan to provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
• Prepare, monitor, and schedule activities that contribute to the delivery of the overall project schedule and objectives.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on the risk management plan to threats to delivery and recommend solutions.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues; and plan and implement responses to them.
• Deliver a Quality Management Plan which contributes to quality control processes.
• Use an organisation’s continual improvement process including lessons learned to improve performance.
• Support the preparation or maintenance of a resource management plan for project activities.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver the project.
• Use digital tools and software to meet project objectives for example research, collaboration, presentations, and resolution of problems.
• Provide underpinning data to support the written submission through the governance process.
• Work within the approved project budget.
• Ensure that integrated schedules support critical path analysis, interface management, resource forecasting and risk management.
• Apply relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and ethical guidance where appropriate to their work.
• Use data to inform decisions on actions to take to mitigate risks on project.
• Use configuration management and change control to schedule and maintain projects.
• Manages resources through the project lifecycle.