Civil Engineering Technician Apprentice
South Gloucestershire Council
Bristol (BS37 7PN)
Closes in 26 days (Sunday 25 May 2025)
Posted on 25 April 2025
Contents
Summary
You will have the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of transport projects that enhance road safety and alleviate congestion for the South Gloucestershire community. Supporting your team, you will be helping to create more accessible travel options that include improved routes for buses, pedestrians and cyclists.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 to £23,492.04, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Civil engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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2
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 as part of the Design Team, you will help produce detailed design and construction plans and documents for varied traffic management and active travel schemes, ensuring they comply with legislation. Consulting on your designs with the public, you will produce legal orders where required to ensure the best possible outcomes when the schemes are built.
- As part of the Assess and Decide Team, you will write to and speak with people requesting highways improvements. Undertaking investigations, you will collect and analyse data, assessing the demands against council values and ultimately recommend options to meet those requests in a viable and cost-effective way.
- You will learn how to design highway and transport projects by assisting team members, and independently on your own projects with support; or by assessing and investigating requests for new highway improvements and producing outline designs. Working as part of either team will help you learn how to use a wide range of guidance and legal regulations to produce drawings, reports and online consultation material.
- Using AutoCAD, GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping software and other specialist software, you will have the opportunity to learn how to produce engineering drawings to assist team members in design or investigation of schemes.
- Through producing product documents and communicating technical information to a varied audience, you will improve your Microsoft Office skills using products such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook.
Where you’ll work
Broad Lane Depot
Engine Common Lane
Yate
Bristol
BS37 7PN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Your training course
Civil engineering technician (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Apply appropriate civil engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to civil engineering and the construction process
- Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis, and evaluation to support the delivery of civil engineering models, designs, and technical solutions
- Operate appropriate software packages for data gathering and analysis, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Building Information Modelling (BIM), to create technical drawings, models and designs using relevant conventions and engineering terminology
- Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the civil engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
- Support and contribute to the production or modification of civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and procedures and codes of practice
- Apply environmental policies and sustainable principles in civil engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions and plan for wider sustainability
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
- Consider equality, diversity and inclusion in the delivery of civil engineering projects
- Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
- Apply ethical principles to civil engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
- Apply appropriate civil engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to civil engineering and the construction process
- Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis, and evaluation to support the delivery of civil engineering models, designs, and technical solutions
- Operate appropriate software packages for data gathering and analysis, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Building Information Modelling (BIM), to create technical drawings, models and designs using relevant conventions and engineering terminology
- Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the civil engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
- Support and contribute to the production or modification of civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and procedures and codes of practice
- Apply environmental policies and sustainable principles in civil engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions and plan for wider sustainability
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
- Consider equality, diversity and inclusion in the delivery of civil engineering projects
- Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
- Apply ethical principles to civil engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
Your training plan
- Throughout your 36-month apprenticeship, we will allocate you a workplace mentor to give you guidance and support in completing your Level 3 Civil Engineering Technician. This will involve day release learning at Weston College, South West Skills Campus, Locking Road, BS22 8NL. The council will cover the cost of your travel expenses to the college.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A to C/4 to 9)
- Maths (grade A to B/5 to 9)
- Science (grade A to C/4 to 9)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this company
Employer Description South Gloucestershire Council is the local authority of South Gloucestershire, a unitary authority in the South West of England region. As a unitary authority it has the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It is administratively separate from the county of Gloucestershire.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Should a hay graded post become available, we will encourage you to apply.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317069.
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Closes in 26 days (Sunday 25 May 2025)
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Company’s application instructions
Please register and apply through our careers website. https://careers.southglos.gov.uk/