A Day in the Life of Bentley's Benjamin McCormick

In this week’s 'Day in the Life...' interview, Benjamin McCormick shares more about his Project Management Degree Apprenticeship at Bentley, as well as the ins and outs of his role as BeProud Co-Chair. He discusses Bentley’s diversity and inclusion journey, the challenging aspects of his role, and why inspiring a sense of belonging in the workplace is so important.

myGwork: Hi Benjamin, can you tell us a bit about your role and how you got here?  

Benjamin: I joined Bentley nearly three years ago as a Level 4 Project Management Apprentice, after spending nearly three years working in the Probation Service co-ordinating community service. Since being at Bentley I’ve completed my Level 4 apprenticeship and moved onto the Level 6-degree programme.

myGwork: What does a typical day look like for you?  

Benjamin: Most days are different, which is great! I’ve worked on different projects, so my schedule and tasks vary depending on these. These have included helping to manage a multi-million-pound portfolio of projects including budget and progress monitoring, meeting with Project Managers to do their project reporting as well as creating reports for the leadership team and steering committees. I’ve also had the opportunity to work on strategic transformation programmes delivering huge change to the business working with Colleagues from a range of levels and areas of the business.

As part of my apprenticeship, I go to University on Fridays, and get to meet project management apprentices from a range of different industries from defence to public broadcasting and learn how things work in their organisations.