Job Description
Are you looking for an exciting, interesting job role which can turn into a successful career helping shape the world we live in?
If you’re ambitious, innovative, and practically minded? We may be able to help.
Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting services with experts across a wide variety of disciplines from project managers, engineers, surveyors and town planners to environmental specialists, asset management professionals and more.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do! They help our clients succeed, our business prosper and the communities we work in thrive.
We need the very best people to maintain our position as a market leader. This includes those taking their first steps onto the career ladder – after all you are the future of our industry and if you’ve got ideas and ambition we want to hear from you!
If you join Tetra Tech as an Apprentice not only will you get to work on exciting, ground-breaking projects from day 1, you will also be given support to grow in your chosen discipline as well as training to develop the core skills needed to succeed in the corporate world. This is all part of our early careers programme – as is the chance to connect with others also starting out in their career, access to mentoring, Chartership support & bonuses and more.
Note: starting salary will be dependent on experience.
Job Description:
We have opportunities in our Belfast office for Apprentices with a keen interest in developing skills in Project and Building Information Management to become part of a team working on a variety of high-profile projects throughout Ireland, the UK & beyond. The post will offer the successful applicant an interesting, challenging and varied workload as well as allowing them to develop personally and professionally, as a Project Manager.
The team undertakes a wide variety of major and challenging projects for the private and public sector, across a range of development sectors. We seek to provide integrated solutions incorporating state of the art design. Projects typically range in size from £1m to £100m schemes covering infrastructure, healthcare, education, commercial, industrial and residential developments.
This position will include day release 1 day per week during term time to attend a local University to complete a fully funded accredited Master's degree in Project Management or a relevant technical discipline. Our PM team have backgrounds including Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying and Architecture so you will be able to display skills and attributes that fit with our services from most construction related qualifications.
Your Role:
Assisting in planning and successfully executing projects
Liaison with Clients and Stakeholders
Managing project information within a Common Data Environment
Planning and managing procurement processes
Programme management
Risk and change management
Administering industry standard contracts including the NEC3 and NEC4 suite of contracts
Understanding and implementing quality management processes
Using IT system to maximise services delivery
Person Specification
Qualifications/Skills:
Minimum 2.2 Honours degree or above in a relevant Engineering or Architecture discipline, or equivalent qualification acceptable to the University. Applicants who do not meet the above academic requirements but hold a relevant professional qualification and can demonstrate appropriate experience, will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
A keen interest in Project Management and Contract Administration
We want colleagues to be focussed on gaining experience to develop your career – as an apprentice, we want you to be eager to work on projects and learn how to deliver a service that benefits our clients.
You need be confident and assured in your ability to communicate. As a PM, key to what you do is understanding what our clients and teams need, strategising how to deliver that and to engage with the parties necessary to manage the processes.
Be motivated and enthusiastic – leading a team means you’ll set an example to those around you and look to promote a positive environment.
Being able to visit our sites, clients and team members is crucial so a full, clean UK driving license with access to a vehicle for business use is essential for the role.
Making everybody feel welcome at Tetra Tech is important to us – because everybody is welcome! We are working hard to be a business where people can not only be themselves but can celebrate who they are and what they bring to our organisation. If you have a disability, learning difficulty, medical condition or any other individual need, we'd be happy to talk to you about making reasonable adjustments to our application and selection process that will enable you to be your best.
We are one of the only consultancies to have adopted a fully flexible working arrangement where employees have the choice of how, when and where they work caveated only by the requirement to fulfil our clients’ requirements. The focus on our people doesn’t end there though, with mental health first aiders, wellbeing & fitness challenges, diversity & inclusion interest groups and lunch and learns sessions from guest speakers as well as a comprehensive flexible benefits selection and a day off for your birthday we want all our employees to be proud to work for Tetra Tech.