Particulars of ordinary
Occupation abstract
This occupation is present in the development and engineering sectors, with civil engineering technicians employed in a wide range of organisation varieties and sizes. Civil engineering technicians will sometimes work for:
- Purchasers, for whom development tasks are carried out, with technicians supporting with the preparation and manufacturing of civil engineering info, venture plans and resourcing, for consultants and contractors
- Consultancies, sometimes appointed by the consumer, to design, put together or modify civil engineering designs, with technicians supporting the planning, design, coordination, administration and monitoring of civil engineering tasks, typically within the pre-build section, offering info for the consumer and contractor
- Contractors, sometimes appointed by the consumer, to coordinate the development section of a civil engineering venture, with technicians supporting the planning, administration, monitoring and coordination of the construct section of civil engineering tasks, complying with and offering info on the instructions supplied by the consumer or marketing consultant
Civil engineering technicians help within the design, creation and connecting up of the world round us, making the villages, cities and cities work for the people who reside in them, and are enjoying an ever growing function in safeguarding and bettering the surroundings into our future.
The broad goal of the occupation is to help the planning, design, constructing, administration, upkeep or dismantling of the constructed surroundings (similar to buildings, buildings, parks and public areas, colleges, workplaces, museums, hospitals) and infrastructure, similar to transportation (street, rail, bridges, tunnels, ports and airports), water and waste administration, marine and coastal engineering (irrigation techniques, sustainable drainage techniques (SuDS), flood, river and coastal defences), water and energy provides (utilities, hydropower, energy stations, nuclear vegetation, on and offshore wind farms).
Civil engineering technicians help within the preparation and manufacturing of plans, designs and documentation to related codes of observe and trade requirements, similar to Development Design and Administration (CDM) or the Design Guide for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), to statutory and regulatory necessities, and in compliance with well being, security and wellbeing necessities.
They’ll use and apply engineering rules and strategies, perform calculations and knowledge evaluation, put together and produce sketches, diagrams, and fashions, to help technical downside fixing and within the supply of civil engineering designs and technical options. They use a spread of instruments and strategies, together with digital strategies (similar to CAD or BIM) to assist the visualisation, communication, measurement and evaluation of civil engineering tasks.
Civil engineering technicians can even be challenged to contemplate how they’ll help enhancements to, or mitigate the results of their work, on the surroundings, with civil engineering tasks having to reply to United Nations Sustainable Growth Objectives, local weather change acts, and environmental insurance policies and laws, together with net-zero emissions, and an growing drive for sustainability.
Civil engineering technicians will contribute to the planning, design, programming, and supply of engineering actions to agreed timescales and budgets, utilizing high quality techniques and threat evaluation procedures to observe and handle tasks and their dangers. Technicians may additionally help in web site inspections or surveys, report progress towards venture plans, or examine specified technical points of web site actions.
Of their each day work, workers work together with their line supervisor, sometimes a senior civil engineer or web site supervisor, to substantiate programmes of labor and agree particular person obligations, which in flip help the supply of wider plans throughout civil engineering groups; these groups may embrace engineers throughout a spread of disciplines, from varied employer varieties (e.g. shoppers, consultancies, contractors), and venture managers, the place their collective outputs will likely be used to provide civil engineering options which might be match for goal, secure, safe, environmentally sustainable, and meet buyer and trade specs.
Technicians shall even have a mentor who will help them within the improvement of their profession plans, upkeep of their private {and professional} improvement, and in some instances, development into extra superior roles, similar to civil engineers or technical specialists.
Technicians may additionally be uncovered to different skilled disciplines, similar to surveyors, environmental practitioners, architects, planners or authorized groups. In addition to liaising with inside colleagues throughout a wide range of multidisciplinary areas, some technicians can even be answerable for working with prospects, suppliers, and stakeholders or with representatives from acceptable regulatory our bodies.
Civil engineering technicians, relying on their employer, will spend their time in an workplace surroundings, engaged on web site, working remotely or a mix of those. There’s additionally potential for visiting prospects or suppliers.
Workers are answerable for helping within the supply of correct and high quality civil engineering options, making certain they’re inside agreed time and useful resource limits, compliant with trade and regulatory requirements, such because the Frequent Security Technique (CSM), and to specification. Civil engineering technicians should additionally adjust to well being and security rules, welfare, wellbeing, and environmental and sustainability insurance policies. They’ll sometimes report back to an engineer or venture supervisor, usually as a part of a cross useful staff, the scale of this staff and obligations various with the scope of the venture and dimension of the employer.
Technicians are in a position to make use of their very own judgement when endeavor the occupational duties and making use of their technical data, abilities and behaviours in a spread of contexts and environments. In addition they have a duty to plan and organise their very own work and contribute to the administration of tasks utilizing a wide range of enterprise processes, procedures, and strategies of working. They’re additionally answerable for their very own persevering with skilled improvement and recognising their very own obligations to society.
Typical job titles embrace:
Assistant technician
Civil engineering technician
Civil infrastructure technician
Civil/structural technician
Development technician
Design technician
Engineering technician
Highways technician
Junior web site technician
Website technician
Structural technician
Entry necessities
Particular person employers will set the choice standards for his or her Apprenticeships. Apprenticeship candidates will sometimes have no less than 5 GCSEs at Grades A*-C / 9-4 together with Maths (Grade B / 5 or 6), English and Science or their equal.
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Data
K1: Applicable engineering rules, underpinned by acceptable mathematical, scientific and technical data and understanding, referring to civil engineering and the development course of
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K2: Applicable civil engineering strategies and strategies used to design, construct and preserve infrastructure and buildings, the requirements, contracts and specs used, and their impression on the development course of
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K3: Key rules, strategies and strategies of knowledge and technical info assortment, evaluation and analysis utilized in delivering civil engineering fashions, designs, and technical options
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K4: Technical drawings, modelling and designs, utilizing computer-based software program packages, similar to Laptop Aided Design (CAD) or Constructing Info Modelling (BIM), and their use within the sector
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K5: Statutory well being, security and welfare insurance policies, procedures, and rules, together with threat administration, in relation to civil engineering venture supply
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K6: Business insurance policies, requirements, rules and codes of observe, similar to Frequent Security Technique (CSM), Development Design and Administration (CDM) or Design Guide for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), that have to be adhered to within the civil engineering surroundings
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K7: Environmental insurance policies and the rules of sustainable improvement, together with these referring to the United Nations Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDG) and net-zero carbon emissions, and their impression on the civil engineering tasks
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K8: Understanding of equality, range and inclusion, and its impression on civil engineering options
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K9: Undertaking administration, high quality administration and assurance techniques and steady enchancment as utilized to civil engineering
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K10: Strategies of communication and when to make use of them, together with find out how to write technical stories and utilizing acceptable engineering terminology and conventions
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K11: Moral rules as utilized to civil engineering and the safety of knowledge and knowledge
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K12: The values and requirements by which they preserve their private, skilled and technical data and abilities by means of preliminary skilled improvement (IPD) and persevering with skilled improvement (CPD)
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Abilities
S1: Apply acceptable civil engineering rules, strategies, and strategies, together with mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to civil engineering and the development course of
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S2: Apply key rules, strategies and strategies of knowledge and technical info assortment, evaluation, and analysis to help the supply of civil engineering fashions, designs, and technical options
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S3: Function acceptable software program packages for knowledge gathering and evaluation, similar to Laptop Aided Design (CAD) or Constructing Info Modelling (BIM), to create technical drawings, fashions and designs utilizing related conventions and engineering terminology
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S4: Apply statutory well being, security and welfare insurance policies, procedures, and rules within the civil engineering surroundings, utilizing threat administration processes, procedures, and documentation
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S5: Assist and contribute to the manufacturing or modification of civil engineering technical options in accordance with related trade requirements, rules, and procedures and codes of observe
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S6: Apply environmental insurance policies and sustainable rules in civil engineering tasks, recognising the necessity to scale back carbon use, decrease emissions and plan for wider sustainability
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S7: Plan, perform and handle personal work in step with high quality assurance, recognising the broader implications to buyer wants, and inside value and useful resource limitations
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S8: Think about equality, range and inclusion within the supply of civil engineering tasks
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S9: Apply doc management processes and procedures utilizing the authorized processes, sustaining high quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
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S10: Talk utilizing acceptable strategies for the viewers, and incorporate related and acceptable phrases, requirements, and knowledge
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S11: Apply moral rules to civil engineering tasks, together with the safe use of knowledge and knowledge
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S12: Plan, undertake and evaluation their very own skilled competence, usually updating and reviewing their CPD to enhance efficiency
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Behaviours
B1: Adjust to well being, security and welfare necessities, trade requirements, statutory rules, insurance policies and codes of observe
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B2: Work independently, working in a scientific, proactive, and clear manner, utilizing sources successfully to finish duties, understanding their limitations and when to ask for help or escalate
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B3: Applies a structured method to downside fixing with consideration to element, accuracy, and diligence
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B4: Is motivated when collaborating in groups, providing smart problem, displays on and supplies constructive suggestions and contributes to discussions
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B5: Maintains skilled and moral working relationships with inside, exterior, and related stakeholders
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B6: Takes duty for their very own skilled improvement, in search of alternatives to reinforce their data, abilities, and expertise
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{Qualifications}
English and Maths
Apprentices with out stage 2 English and maths might want to obtain this stage previous to taking the Finish-Level Evaluation. For these with an schooling, well being and care plan or a legacy assertion, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimal requirement is Entry Degree 3. A British Signal Language (BSL) qualification is a substitute for the English qualification for these whose major language is BSL.
Different necessary {qualifications}
Pearson BTEC Degree 3 Nationwide Diploma in Civil Engineering (603/1217/8)
Degree: 3
Ofqual regulated
Skilled recognition
This customary aligns with the next skilled recognition:
- Establishment of Civil Engineers (ICE) for Engineering Technician
- Chartered Establishment of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) for Engineering Technician
- Institute of Highways Engineers (IHE) for Engineering Technician
- Establishment of Structural Engineers (IStructE) for Engineering Technician
- Everlasting Manner Establishment (PWI) for Engineering Technician
Extra particulars
Occupational Degree:
3
Length (months):
36
Evaluation
This apprenticeship customary will likely be reviewed after three years
