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Social Value Apprentice

Location:
South East England
Contract type:
Full time permanent
Functions:
Communications, Continuous Customer Care, Engineering, Infrastructure
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Who we are at Morgan Sindall Infrastructure

 

We deliver some of the UK’s most complex and critical infrastructure across six core sectors of energy, water, nuclear, highways, rail and aviation for public and private customers. Working on projects and long-term frameworks, we believe in connecting people, places and communities through innovative and responsible infrastructure.

 Our people are our business. Through their expertise, we harness innovative ideas and approaches that enable us to safely and responsibly design and deliver resilient infrastructure upon which we all rely. Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK construction and regeneration group with revenue of over £3 billion.

 

 

 

 

About the Apprenticeship

 

 

Our structured Apprenticeship programme covers a variety of personal development and technical training to support your well-rounded development. Our programme blends practical exposure to enhance your discipline specific abilities whilst enhancing your individual personal development during your early career. 

You’ll also be offered a professional scheme mentor, to help and support you.

We have a great group of early careers currently in the business and plenty of experienced colleagues who get involved in supporting you at every step of the way!

 

 

 

About the project

 

The National Highways Concrete Roads Programme is a long-term scheme to repair or replace the concrete surface of motorways or major A roads in England. Morgan Sindall has been appointed to deliver some of these large projects on behalf of National Highways.

What will you
be doing?

This role will involve shadowing the Social Value Manager and other key roles to understand and learn the importance of social value to our business and to gain insight into the roles that play a part in our social value activities. Frequent travel to our projects will be required.

 

The role will include plenty of mentoring support and may involve:

Assisting in preparing social value charters and social value plans using local area needs analysis

Using social value measurement tools to record our social impact

Working with local communities to prioritise where our social value initiatives would be most valuable and then helping to  develop and deliver them!

Supporting school engagement activities and helping to plan these

Working with our colleagues and supply chain partners to help them to understand the importance of social value and how we can deliver it

Researching new initiatives and ways to deliver long lasting social impact

Networking within local communities and with other professionals to find opportunities to innovate and collaborate in our delivery of social value

Liaising with our environmental, stakeholder, employment and skills, procurement and work winning teams (amongst others!) to help us improve how we deliver social value across our business

What qualifications
do I require?

 

Ideally five Grades or equivalent of 9 – 4 grades, including Math’s, English and a Science or Level 3 Apprenticeship.

Ability to travel to remote locations - car benefit available

Ideally some exposure to a construction/ engineering environment.

 

 

You will need the
ability to:

Set goals and secure the right resources to achieve them                       

Look for opportunities in difficult situations

Speak engagingly by using facts and examples to support my point            

Show I am listening by using open ended questions to deepen my understanding

Develop ideas by considering different perspectives

Contribute to group decision making, whilst recognising the value of other ideas   

Speak adaptively by changing the content depending on the response of listeners

Manage time and share resources to support completing tasks  

Work well with others by understanding and respecting diversity of others' cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds 

Listen to others and record important information as I do

 

 

Why join our team?

We have a great cohort of early careers in the business and plenty of experienced colleagues who get involved in supporting you at every step of the way. You’ll also be offered a professional scheme mentor to help you on your path to chartership with your specific chartered body.

Please visit Working with us | Morgan Sindall Infrastructure to understand our values and company benefits.

We work on a range of exciting projects in various locations across the UK, you can read more about them here.

 

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited as a Disability Confident employer.  We have also been awarded platinum accreditation against the Investors in People Standard.

Please note Morgan Sindall Infrastructure is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. We have a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

 

 

 

 

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