Project Development Engineer Apprentice

The apprenticeship programme takes approximately three years to complete, and you’ll spend your first 12 weeks being inducted onto the programme at one of our Training Centres.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands‑on experience.

Join our Higher Apprenticeship programme and gain hands‑on experience supporting multidisciplinary teams in planning, developing, and delivering major investments. You’ll contribute to project setup, option selection, contract awards, and technical assessments to ensure safe, cost‑effective solutions. Learn to work within regulations, stakeholder expectations, and support the RIIO-T3 business plan. Comprehensive mentoring and training will help you develop professionally and technically, setting you on the path to a rewarding engineering career.

These are jobs where you’ll be drilling down into the detail on specific subjects. You will be providing technical advice and engineering support for our assets across the entire network, making significant decisions and influencing their execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and support the scheme team and stakeholders during pre‑construction, ensuring timely development and approval of investment solutions.
• Help develop safe, efficient, least‑cost solutions in line with regulations, and document all design and risk considerations.
• Assist with site assessments, cost estimation, tendering, and risk mitigation to enable effective project delivery.
• Monitor and control financial forecasting and reporting for investments throughout the pre‑construction phases.
• Ensure high‑quality data management and apply lessons learnt to optimise project scope, cost, and scheduling.