Apprentice of the Month - April
To recognise the hard work of learners, our Tutors are nominating those who are doing exceptionally well throughout their apprenticeship to be awarded as our Apprentice of the Month.
Congratulations to our April Apprentice of the Month, Kat Clark. Kat is currently completing her Level 3 Project Controls Technician Apprenticeship with United Utilities and was nominated by her Tutor, Fiona.
Kat’s Tutor, Fiona said:
“Kat has recently adapted exceptionally well to an increase in responsibility within her role with United Utilities and has demonstrated remarkable qualities in being agile and adapting to changing circumstances. This can be evidenced by Kat’s flexible approach to a recent situation at work where a shortage of 2 project controllers within the department placed significant strains on one of the teams supporting the capital programme and no one available to help with the high volume of work. Kat was asked by the Project Control Manager if she could help by taking over a portfolio of projects usually expected of someone much more experienced, especially due to the high volume and time sensitive work. Kat has absolutely excelled within the role, and has developed her decision making skills, has learned to adapt quickly to meet changing priorities and has demonstrated a truly flexible approach to getting the job done.”
“Both in work and in learning, Kat never compromises on doing the right thing. She has a quiet, mature confidence in her own abilities and her line manager Alan Barker explained that Kat is never afraid to challenge the status quo even with very senior project managers, while always demonstrating professionalism.”
“Kat is an exceptional team player and within a very short space of time since taking on the additional responsibility within her own role, she has built professional mutual trust based relationships very quickly with senior managers and across a range of departments and teams. She is very personable and engaging and has excellent communication and interpersonal skills which creates buy in from stakeholders and teams and her age and apprenticeship status is not even a consideration for other senior project stakeholders who have given her exceptional praise and feedback for her work with them to date.”
“Kat is committed, dedicated and enthusiastic and is never afraid to put forward or create new ideas when team working. She now has more responsibility within her own role and has responded to this with a passion and enthusiasm that has inspired others. Her ability to contribute to some highly challenging new situations and find innovative solutions has been quite remarkable, according to her manager Alan.”
“Highly organised and with a real determination to further develop her skills and experience both on and off the job, Kat takes pride in everything she does, produces work to a very high standard and when asked by the Project Control Manager to assist his team, they reviewed the projects and Kat then put a plan in place to take them over and within a month only needing minimal support. She then took over organising the monthly review meeting, organising the agenda, allocating PM slots and producing the report for the Programme Manager and her to scrutinise the work done in month and future costs and deadlines. The Programme Manager has been very impressed by the speed that Kat has picked up the work usually undertaken by controllers 2 and 3 grades above her and the accuracy of her reports and comments/observations about projects progress, highlighting variances and anomalies.”
Jane Simpson, United Utilities Capital Delivery, Engineering & Commercial Director, presenting Kat with her Apprentice of the Month Award from LSP.