Level 6 Project Management Apprentice Review

My Role involves supporting the development, running, and closure of a variety of Projects and Programmes across the Babcock International Group PLC portfolio.
My day-to-day role is very dependant on placement: but typically involves personnel workload management, project controls (risk, schedule, finance), procurement, and project governance.

The Programme is able to embed new starters within a project team - providing us with mentors, buddies (apprentices in the year above), and scheme leads to make sure we are fully comfortable in the business. We then have permanent support from the amazing emerging talent team who are always there to provide support. As you gain confidence, you gain more and more freedom to explore the business with the backing of emerging talent and the scheme leads.

We receive a plethora of support from employers - who are able to support with personal issues, university education issues, and work issues in a very empathetic and problem-solving manor.

The support received from UCW is consistently good and lecture content is interesting. The day-release from work means that a week's work has to be covered in 8 hours: and UCW do an excellent job ensuring we learn key project management theory which has a real application in the workplace.

The qualification received through our training provider (for instance - we are currently revising for our Project Management Qualification 18 months in) will ultimately ensure that we can enable best-practice in our role as project managers. Even the modules undertaken which will culminate in a Bsc Project Management Degree have been useful and have already helped me perform better in my role.

Yes

Babcock has provided me with the tools, confidence, and discipline to complete my job to the best of my ability with ZERO previous experience in project management. After 18 months I can safely say there is a place and use for everyone at Babcock to complete some genuinely inspiring work.