Project Controls Apprentice

Leonardo; Luton; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000

Job description

Project Controls Apprentice

Job Description:

The Opportunity:

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4yrs across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training, coupled with on-the-job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience, and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career.

Whether leaving School or College with GCSEs/Standards, A ‘Levels/Highers (or equivalent) or in work and looking for a new career path, you are fully supported as you rotate within the business working on real-time projects alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work.

As you would expect from a globally renowned Company, we offer competitive starting salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, so there is no need to get into debt. We support helping you settle into your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Early Careers team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhancing many aspects of each programme.

Leonardo values people that look to always develop throughout their career and along with an eager willingness to learn, a successful apprenticeship with us involves a drive to deliver results, sometimes from your own initiative, a patience for problem-solving, as well as a need to comply with safety instructions and clear process compliance at all times. We view commitment to programme and learning objectives very highly.

What you’ll do as a Project Controls Apprentice:

Project Controls is a fundamental discipline to the safe and stable execution of projects and achieving business growth. With a focus on scheduling, planning, risk management, resource management, performance metrics, and change management, Project Controls provides a unique insight into the execution monitoring and control of Projects and is at the heart of successful delivery performance. A role in Project Controls provides the opportunity to develop and deliver a fundamental understanding of business performance and be an integral part of an Integrated Project Team to secure and deliver successful projects.

The Leonardo Project Controls Apprenticeship is structured around a programme of placements that will see you move around the business within the Project Controls Function (at Luton and Lincoln) over a 3.5 year period and is designed to give you as much experience and exposure to Project Controls practices and different operational contexts as possible. This will help you develop strong core skills of Project Controls whilst also giving you a wider understanding of how a global business operates.

You will also undertake a Level 3 Project Controls Technician qualification over this time to complement on-the-job learning alongside internal training to understand and utilise globally recognised tool sets and standards in Project Controls.

During your apprenticeship, you will:

• Grow your knowledge of an engineering business and what the role of a Project Controller means by being part of our Functional and Integrated Project Teams.
• Develop and utilise key skills in Project Controls, understanding key processes, tool sets, and methodologies.
• Support early careers activities - our apprentices have the opportunity to work as STEM ambassadors in schools, colleges, and universities.

What we need from you:

Qualifications:

You must have (as a minimum) the following qualifications:

5 GCSE grades 4 - 9 or grades A*- C or equivalent, to include Maths and English.

Salary: £17,850

Security Clearance:

You must be eligible for full security clearance.

Life at Leonardo:

With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.

• Pension: Award-winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution).
• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year.
• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.
• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, access to Mental Health support, Financial wellbeing support, network groups.
• Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme.
• Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme.
• Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera.
• Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member.
• Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below.

Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 7,000 are based in the UK.

At Leonardo UK, we believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people’s full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible, and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.

This is a great opportunity to bring your talents and form an integral part of Leonardo’s future. We can help you develop your skills and offer great opportunities to develop and grow, so why not join us?

We recruit on a rolling basis so don’t delay – these roles attract high competition so APPLY NOW to avoid disappointment.

Primary Location:

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Contract Type:

Fixed term

Hybrid Working:

Hybrid