Apprentice Project Controls Technician Review

Predominately involves updating schedules on our online platform, reviewing and updating schedules with project managers, attending teams calls and occasional collaborative sessions and site meetings. 20% of working time is allocated to coursework for the diploma in project controls as per the apprenticeship requirements.

Learned scheduling technical skills and some operations process knowledge for sewage treatment works, as the schedules for projects involving those is what I am most experienced with.

It can a good experience, and is overall a good experience the lack of regular and relevant training can make one feel a little detached and removed the workplace and the apprenticeship itself

It's not clearly organised in a way that ensures progress is sufficient tracked, training and support is rare and limited, and staff are very busy so it even more rare to get active mentoring when learning new skills needed to develop in the job.

The support for welfare is acceptable but nothing to shout about.

Very little in the way of support to learn and understand the qualification, very much self-service in terms of completing the coursework and booking assessments to complete them.

There's some useful insights but most of it is general conjecture about the project management sector I work within, much of the knowledge isn't relevent to my role and probably won't be used.

There are plenty of extra-curricular events, whether that's sports, networking, volunteering, open evening etc.

Yes

If you want job stability in a friendly environment, with a generous pension and great shareshave scheme, then yes i'd recommend, although it depends on what you want out of a job. More dynamic and higher pay jobs exist better in the contracting sector but they are more difficult and less stable.

Talk about your experiences and skills developed from them, what they achieved. As well as how you intended to improve to in your new role to add value to the company.