Playground Designer Apprenticeship

Summary

Join the Play Experts and become a designer for children's playgrounds. Work alongside our Friendly Designer whilst learning the trade.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Engineering design technician (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday 9.00am till 4.30pm. This may vary slightly

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 7 July 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Working with our playground designer
Learning CAD Software (Rhino CAD)
Learning Play Compliance BS EN 1176 & BS EN 1177
Design Product Specification Documents
Occasional site visits
Product design
Product installation manuals
Manufacturing documents
Project proposal visuals

Where you’ll work

Golden Fleece Barn
Tenterden Road, Biddenden
Ashford
TN27 8BN

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

TRAIN'D UP RAILWAY RESOURCING 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

Engineering Design Technician Level 3.

Training will take place at Everyday Play Head Office (Biddenden TN27).

You will be allocated time to ensure training is kept on top of, assistance or help will be given where necessary.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

ICT (grade 5+)
Maths (grade 5+)

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Business (grade 4+)
English (grade 4+)
Technical Subjects I.e Design & Tech (grade 4+)

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
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Drawing

About this company

- Fun Playground Designers - Small Family Run Business with a large team - We design, manufacture and install for Schools, Councils & Zoos - Playful Company that Enjoy Making Cool Equipment for Kids

http://www.everyday-play.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Becoming a member of the design team at Everyday Play.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

EVERYDAY PLAY LIMITED

Luke Savage

info@everyday-play.co.uk

01622688343

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314974.

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Closes on Monday 30 June 2025

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