Start your Project Controls Technician career with Thames Water
Kick‑start your future as a Project Controls Technician Apprentice, supporting the UK’s largest water and wastewater provider. You’ll gain hands‑on experience maintaining accurate project data and learn how major capital projects are planned, tracked, and delivered.
What you’ll do:
1. Rotate across key PMO teams to learn reporting, planning, and project controls.
2. Maintain accurate cost, schedule, and performance data in systems like SAP.
3. Support planners building and updating project schedules.
4. Help Reporting Analysts create clear performance reports.
5. Assure contractor data, checking cost and milestone accuracy.
6. Gather and share project data with the delivery teams and management.
7. Join review meetings to validate VOWD, forecasts, and highlight performance trends.
8. Help keep a £1–2bn capital programme on track through reliable baselines and insights.
Where you will work:
Location: Clearwater Court Reading RG1 8DB
Hours: 36 hours a week across four working days plus one off-the-job training day
Start date: Sept 2026
Training and qualification: You’ll study with London Metropolitan College, one of the UK’s leading project controls training providers. Your training is delivered virtually through bi-weekly workshops, plus added enrichment days either in person in central London or online.
Qualification:Project Controls Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard- ECITB Level 3 Diploma
Duration: Permanent contract with 28 months a structured programme.
What you should bring to the role:
9. Has 5 GCSE Maths and English (grade 9-4 / A-C)
10. Good organisational skills and communication skills, both verbal and written.
11. Good IT skills, including MS Office, and some admin knowledge would be ideal.
12. Is passionate about learning and aligned with Thames Water’s goals for the future.
What’s in it for you?
13. Excellent salary: £22,500
14. Annual Leave: 24 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
15. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
16. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
17. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.