Project Controls Apprentice:

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-5 years across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training coupled with on-the-job learning. This programme enables you to gain practical skills, experience, and knowledge to kickstart your career. We offer competitive entry salaries with increases as you progress and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications.

We help you settle into your new location, ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. An Apprentice team member at each site will help you progress, protect your study time, enable access to digital learning, and provide opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects.

What you’ll do as a Project Controls Apprentice:

Project Controls is a fundamental discipline for the safe and stable execution of projects and achieving business growth. Focusing on scheduling, planning, risk management, resource management, performance metrics, and change management, Project Controls offers insight into project execution, monitoring, and control, and is key to successful delivery performance. This role provides the opportunity to develop a fundamental understanding of business performance and be an integral part of an Integrated Project Team.

The Leonardo Project Controls Apprenticeship is structured around a programme of placements within the Project Controls Function. This is designed to give you extensive experience and exposure to Project Controls practices and different operational contexts, helping you develop strong core skills and a wider understanding of how a global business operates.

You will also undertake a Level 3 qualification in Business Administration to complement your on-the-job learning. This includes internal training to understand and utilise globally recognised toolsets and standards in Project Controls.

During your apprenticeship, you will:

• Grow your knowledge of an engineering business and the role of a Project Controller by being part of our Functional and Integrated Project Teams.
• Develop and utilise key skills in Project Controls, understanding key processes, toolsets, and methodologies.
• Support early careers activities by working as a STEM ambassador 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 A* - C) or equivalent, including Maths and English.

Salary

• £20,000 per year

Security Clearance

Many of our roles are subject to security and export control restrictions. Successful applicants will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record declaration information, and employment and/or education history verification for the previous five years. For more sensitive posts, additional National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, which generally requires continuous residency in the UK for the previous five years (or ten for DV clearance), though exceptions may apply.

Why join us?

• Time to recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your wellbeing matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity.
• Rewarding performance: All employees are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Join in our success: Our annual Employee Stock Ownership Plan provides the opportunity to own shares in Leonardo.
• Tailored perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, and gym memberships.

We are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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