Transport for London
Project Management – London Underground
- Placements
- Further education and professional studies
- Duration
- Entry requirements and minimum criteria
- Applications
This is your chance to make history. As part of the TfL Investment Programme to transform the Tube, we're delivering upgrades and renewals on a scale unprecedented in the network's 150-year history. Delivering all projects on time, safely and to a high standard is no mean feat. And it demands sound project management at every stage.
This graduate scheme will see you applying your theoretical knowledge and making a genuine contribution to the success of our projects. You'll work on a variety of high-profile and complex developments, at different stages of the project management life cycle.
We've improvements going on across the network, so you could, for instance, find yourself working with a delivery team upgrading the Sub-Surface Railway, working on the £500m redevelopment of Victoria Underground station or on the massive Tottenham Court Road project.
Every aspect of the scheme is intended to develop you into a competent and professional project manager. Delivering improvements to the Capital's transport system, you'll help to make us world-class.
Placements
You'll join one of our project delivery teams: Forecasting, project implementation, performance and commercial management are just some of the areas you'll work in. There will be an opportunity, in the second year, to diversify into other specific areas such as planning and risk management. You'll also be able to undertake placements in other areas across TfL.
Operational placements
Critical to your success on the scheme and throughout your career here is the practical experience of working in one of London Underground's stations. Our Operational Learning team will provide all you need, including safety critical qualifications, people management skills and technical knowledge. They'll also shadow you to ensure that each placement is valuable and engaging throughout.
You'll be contracted to work a minimum 35-hour week. Your three-month placement in an operational environment may involve varied hours, including weekend working and shifts, dependent on your role. Office-based placements will generally involve usual office hours.
Further education and professional studies
You can be rest assured that we'll support and encourage you with your professional studies at every step of the way. Your programme of training and development will help you achieve membership of the Association of Project Management (IPMA) Level D qualification.
Duration
Two years
Entry requirements and minimum criteria
You'll need a 2:1 honours degree in any discipline, although project, business management or engineering related degrees are particularly welcome.
- Graduate in appropriate discipline with appropriate classification - 2:1
- Ability to work on site where necessary
- High standards of written communication, verbal, numerical and inductive (ability to deal with ambiguous data) reasoning
- High standards of verbal communication
- Skilled in analysis and problem solving
- Keen on embracing change
- Collaborative, and keen to share information, knowledge and skills
- A strong focus on internal and external customers
- A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Keen to seek out new opportunities for learning and career progression and challenges
- Be able to identify the goals of any project and work steadily towards them
- Able to take a structured and methodical approach to any task, identifying priorities and setting deadlines
If you're successful you'll have to pass pre-employment checks before joining. These will include reference checks, qualifications checks, right to work in the UK and in some cases a medical and a Criminal Records Bureau check.
Applications
Applications close on 3 January 2012.
Applications
