Sustainability Project Support Apprentice
Historic Royal Palaces
- 01/09/2025
- £24,710 per annum subject to review
- Apprenticeship - Higher apprenticeship: level 4
- Hampton Court Palace, Tower of London,
Like many organisations, Historic Royal Palaces is keenly aware of its impact on the climate crisis and the need for urgent action to mitigate it. A significant part of this is the impact that our use of fossil fuels at our sites has on our organisation’s carbon emissions.
As Sustainability Project Support apprentice, you’ll be supporting the delivery of the Decarbonisation programme – the largest workstream in the Sustainability Action Plan.
You’ll work closely with the Senior Project Manager, Decarbonisation and other stakeholders across all HRP sites to support the delivery of large-scale reservicing and renewable energy projects.
This role provides an exciting and rare opportunity to gain practical project management experience in many areas of sustainability, specifically energy and construction as well as getting to know each of our palaces.
Date: February 2025
What you will be doing in your role
Whilst studying towards your apprenticeship you will also be:
Project controls
- To assist setting up and maintaining project risk registers
- To assist project change control systems
- To maintain project files
- To collect data for quality and cost control and key performance indicators, working closely with the Energy Manager and Energy & Sustainability Analyst to produce reports as necessary
- To assist with project reviews and closure
- To assist the Senior PM in contract administration duties in accordance with the HRP Project Management Handbook
Planning
- To set up and maintain project plans (Gantt charts)
- To produce charts and other documents for project managers to use in project proposals, briefs, presentations, etc.
- To assist compiling business case papers and papers for the Programme Boards, Executive Board and Trustees
- Project ordering, monitoring and reporting
- To obtain budget codes from the Finance Office
- To raise Works Orders
- To record payments against Works Orders
- To record project changes and instructions
- To produce reports from the finance software
- To communicate and problem-solve with Finance
Technical
- To carry out research for the Senior PM and Sustainability Programme Manager
- To gain knowledge and become expert in the use of the Procore, and Microsoft Project software
- To undertake delegated work packages (e.g. obtaining quotations, recording trials and investigations)
Communication
- To assist the Senior PM in producing project interpretation and other project communications
- To manage news and updates to the Sustainability intranet site and Project sites.
Record management and archives
- To maintain digital files suitable for electronic archive
Administration
- To help the Senior PM produce and issue documents
- To take minutes and chase actions arising from team meetings on behalf of the Senior PM
- To deal with email, queries, act as a central point of administration for specified projects
- To order PPE supplies and equipment
- To arrange meetings – people, equipment and catering
Job Ref: sustainability
