Project Controls Apprenticeship

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Your mission

At AWE, project controls professionals are integral in ensuring we deliver our mission successfully and safely on time.

As a degree apprentice, you’ll gain hands-on experience supporting key areas including cost information, estimates, risk, schedules and plans, statistics, engineering drawings and plans for various projects, while working towards a Bachelor’s Degree.

THE QUALIFICATIONS YOU’LL NEED

Five GCSE’s at Grade 4/C or above to include Maths and English.

You’ll need to be a British Citizen for security clearance.

WORK PATTERN

You’ll be based at our Aldermaston site with one day a week off-site at college.

At AWE, we operate on a nine-day fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.

SKILLS TO DEMONSTRATE

•    Attention to detail
•    Excellent team working skills
•    Good communication skills
•    Effective organisation skills
•    IT skills

Your journey

In your apprenticeship, you’ll build the foundations of a career that matters. You’ll receive an initial induction which will develop your basic knowledge, people skills and technical skills to set you up with the confidence and skills to progress onto a programme of work for your initial placement.

You will be supporting by specialist mentors as you develop and apply your core skills in a live working environment. In addition to your practical work you will further your knowledge of project controls through online academic studies with the National College for Nuclear (NCFN), as you work towards achieving a Bachelor’s Degree and completing your apprenticeship.

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Think you’ve got what it takes?

This role could be a great fit if you’re interested in problem solving as part of a team and the opportunity to be part of the full project lifecycle from planning to implementation and results.

If you’re driven, curious and keen to learn then we’d love to hear from you.

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