Project Management Graduate Scheme - Project & Programme Services (PPS)

As a Graduate Project Manager on our prestigious programme you will help to support and deliver a variety of services across a range of challenging and exciting projects in the UK and internationally. We operate across a range of markets including; transportation, infrastructure, energy, defence, education, central and local government, commercial property and heritage. 

We strive to build strong relationships by understanding the challenges our clients face, sharing their vision and helping them transform their visions into reality. Our core suite of digital platforms and tools underpin our service delivery model and through innovation, standardisation and automation, we maximise efficiencies for our clients to save time and money. Our cutting-edge independent advice and support enables our clients to turn bold ideas into reality and deliver their most important projects and programmes. 

Working as a Project Manager you will form an integral part of our established team of project and Programme Management practitioners and will be supported in all aspects of your career development. Our Project Managers are involved in some of the world’s most prestigious and complex projects, requiring meticulous planning to ensure successful delivery to our clients and stakeholders. 

As a Graduate Project Manager at PPS, you’ll be working directly with clients to achieve their goals, this may include assisting clients in developing the strategy for their project or programme, managing multidisciplinary project teams to turn ideas into tangible designs, or managing projects on site to help turn designs into reality. This will require spending time in PPS’s offices, the client’s office or the client’s site.

Requirements: Obtained or working towards a 2.2 Bachelor’s degree or above in a Project Management related degree or any subject for those who can demonstrate commercial or technical acumen. We’ll consider sponsoring your MSc on a day release basis if you don’t have a degree in a relevant subject. 

Locations: Birmingham, Oxford, Bristol, Southampton, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Leeds, London, Tunbridge Wells, Cambridge and Epsom
(Please note locations may close due to volume of applications - if you're preferred location isn't available when you go to apply please select an alternative.)

What you’ll be doing

At Project & Programme Services, we’re a people business, a people business that wants to make a positive difference; a difference to the communities in which we live and operate, our client’s projects, and the careers of our talented workforce. Our graduates are the next generation of that workforce – they’re our future experts, and Project & Programme Services is committed to providing training and development to ensure that they, like all Project & Programme Services staff, have the best opportunity to fulfil their potential.

You’ll join us as a Graduate Consultant and will help provide expert advice to our clients on a range of complex projects. Our Consultants work across both public and private sectors, including universities, pharmaceutical, government and new and refurbishment development projects. You will learn to work with clients and learn to be confident, a good communicator, problem solving and well-rounded and broad-based consultant. You will be given the opportunity to grow, with a wide variety of projects to work on and learn from an experienced high-performing team.

Who we’re looking for

A talented Graduate with a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree or above to work in a growing team of consultants. We’ll sponsor your training plan over the course of your programme.

You’ll have ambition, vision, enthusiasm and the drive to keep on developing your technical skills and achieve professional status relevant to your chosen specialist technical area (including but not limited to RICS, IEMA, CIBSE, IAM). With a passion for working in a fully inclusive consultancy environment, you’ll want to work with clients and with teams who deliver to their customers.

You’ll be adaptable and a confident decision maker with excellent communication and team-working skills. You will also have the ability to apply your technical knowledge to analyse problems and create innovative solutions.

Training and development

Our training will help you solve real-life problems from day one and develop industry skills that are highly sought after.

• Our flexible graduate scheme promises to give you the support you need to develop your technical, commercial and consultancy skills. What defines Project & Programme Services is the unrivalled amount of support during professional development from your assigned supervisor and counsellor, monthly workshops and training sessions.
• Professional development which will be discussed throughout the Graduate Development Programme (GDP), supporting you in becoming a well-rounded Graduate Consultant and encouraging you to obtain your chartership by offering you a wide variety of work and projects in order to gain experience required to achieve this. We also offer core learning modules to develop your softer skills such as technical writing and presentation skills to enable you to complete your day-to-day role.
• Chartership coaching, professional training and industry exposure with a high-level clients and variety of projects.
• This year across the RICS pathway, we have had exceptional APC results exceeding the national average by 35% with a combined pass rate of 100% which shows our dedication and commitment to training and learning and development. This high pass rate has been mirrored across other chartership routes.

You can either join us as Graduate Project Manager in our Commercial Property or Complex Infrastructure teams. More information on these teams can be found below.