Civil Engineering Technician Apprentice

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.

Training:
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.

Training Outcome:
Should a hay graded post become available, we will encourage you to apply.

Employer Description:
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.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday

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