CAD Apprentice

OSBIT LTD

NORTHUMBERLAND (NE44 6AW)

Closes in 19 days (Tuesday 1 April)

Posted on 7 March 2025


Summary

We are looking for 4 x CAD apprentices to join our team in Riding Mill, Northumberland. You will gain a wide and varied understanding of engineering design along with an understanding of engineering designs and drawings for structures and systems.

Training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Thursday, 8.00am - 4.00pm and Friday, 7.30am - 1.00pm

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 15 April

Duration

3 years 6 months

Positions available

4

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Reporting into the Senior Draftsperson the apprentice will:

  • Learn drawing packages typically Autodesk Inventor
  • Work closely with the Engineers to develop concept models into working drawings suitable for manufacture
  • Create new or improved product and component documents for engineering and manufacturing including layouts, assembly and detail drawings
  • Create product or component illustrations including block diagrams, schematics, isometric illustrations, orthographic illustrations and three dimensional perspective illustrations for use in marketing literature, manuals and sales video presentations
  • Create exploded view drawings for operation, service and assembly manuals

Where you’ll work

BROOMHAUGH HOUSE
BROOMHAUGH
RIDING MILL
NORTHUMBERLAND
NE44 6AW

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

TDR TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Engineering design technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents
  • Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
  • Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
  • Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
  • Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
  • Select materials and parts.
  • Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
  • Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
  • Provide feedback on engineering designs.
  • Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
  • Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
  • Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
  • Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
  • Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
  • Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
  • Read, interpret and establish design intent.
  • Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
  • Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
  • Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
  • Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
  • Option 1. Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
  • Option 1. Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
  • Option 1. Identify cable types and application.
  • Option 1. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
  • Option 2. Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
  • Option 2. Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
  • Option 2. Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
  • Option 2. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
  • Option 3. Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
  • Option 3. Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
  • Option 3. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
  • Option 4. Produce general arrangements of piping design.
  • Option 4. Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
  • Option 4. Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
  • Option 5. Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
  • Option 5. Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
  • Option 5. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
  • Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
  • Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
  • Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
  • Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
  • Select materials and parts.
  • Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
  • Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
  • Provide feedback on engineering designs.
  • Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
  • Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
  • Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
  • Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
  • Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
  • Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
  • Read, interpret and establish design intent.
  • Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
  • Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
  • Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
  • Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.

Your training plan

  • You will work towards a level 3 Engineering Manufacturing Support Technician Standard
  • You will study BTec Level 3 AME

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • english and maths (grade 6 /B or above)
  • Maths (grade 6 / b or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative

About this company

At Osbit, we design and build quality, cost-effective engineered systems to support a range of offshore wind and oil & gas operations. We deliver safe, bespoke equipment On Spec, Budget and In Time – every time. We are flexible and responsive, tailoring each project to suit our clients’ demands. We know that productivity equals profits – that’s why we provide quality, cost-effective support. Whatever your offshore engineering needs, we’ll take your problems and own them until we solve them. It’s as simple as that. Ultimately, it’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it that really sets us apart.

http://www.www.osbit.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Full time position upon completion of apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

TDR TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000308343.

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Closes in 19 days (Tuesday 1 April)

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Company’s application instructions

VERY IMPORTANT: Applications will be directed to the TDR website where you shall complete a short sign-up form. It is very important that you indicate OSBIT in the form. Failure to do this may delay your application.