Particulars of ordinary
Occupation abstract
This occupation is discovered within the building and engineering sectors, with constructing companies engineering technicians employed in quite a lot of organisation varieties and sizes. Constructing companies engineering technicians will usually work for:
- Purchasers, for whom building or refurbishment tasks are carried out, with technicians supporting the preparation and manufacturing of constructing companies engineering data, undertaking plans and resourcing, usually for consultants and contractors. This sort of organisation may embody Builders, Hospital Estates departments, Native Authorities, Services Administration, and so on.
- Consultancies, usually appointed by the consumer, to design, put together or modify constructing companies engineering designs, with technicians supporting the planning, design, coordination, administration, and monitoring of constructing companies engineering tasks, within the design section, usually offering data for the consumer and contractor.
- Contractors, usually appointed by the consumer, to coordinate the development, set up, refurbishment, or manufacture section of a constructing companies engineering undertaking, with technicians supporting the planning, undertaking administration, monitoring, commissioning and coordination of the construct or refurbishment section of constructing companies engineering tasks.
- Suppliers and Producers, appointed to produce supplies and gear, or to design, construct and manufacture constructing service methods, for constructing companies tasks.
Technicians work on and in all forms of buildings throughout the constructed surroundings sector, together with residential (personal properties, bigger residential buildings, together with excessive rise buildings), faculties (schooling), healthcare services & hospitals, shops, procuring centres, workplaces, eating places, cinemas, gyms, museums, and infrastructure tasks resembling transport hubs and stations, ports and airports, water and waste services, energy vegetation.
The broad goal of the occupation is to carry the constructed surroundings to life by connecting up the buildings we reside and work in, guaranteeing they meet the wants of the folks, plant, and companies they should accommodate, while offering consolation, constructing security and safety and effectivity by way of ever growing environmental safeguarding.
Constructing companies engineering technicians help within the supply of constructing companies options and methods which can be to be manufactured, put in, or managed and maintained, inside a constructing. The primary forms of constructing companies methods are mechanical (heating, air flow, and cooling), electrical (energy, lighting and so on) and public well being (water companies and drainage).
In these areas, constructing companies engineering technicians could think about:
- security and safety, together with emergency lighting, safety and alarm methods, fireplace detection and prevention, emergency back-up methods, inclusive entry, and move by way of buildings for each folks and gear, together with escalators and lifts.
- effectivity and sustainability, together with the seize, provide and use of vitality (electrical, mechanical, and different energy methods, renewable vitality methods (resembling photo voltaic, wind or warmth pump sources), water provide and administration (together with plumbing and drainage), communication networks to help built-in methods and clever buildings, and façade engineering.
- consolation and management, together with heating and air flow, air con and refrigeration, and lighting (synthetic and pure) and acoustics.
Constructing companies engineering technicians will use and apply engineering rules and methods to arrange, produce and current constructing companies engineering diagrams and documentation, with regard for the sensible want to put in and preserve gear and methods. They will even assist in technical downside fixing which assist within the supply of constructing companies engineering options.
Technicians will supply, evaluation, and analyse information and data, perform calculations, and use a variety of instruments and methods, together with engineering evaluation software program (resembling CAD and Revit), and digital information modelling methods, resembling Constructing Data Administration (BIM), to help the communication, evaluation and safe administration of constructing companies engineering data.
With the necessity to mitigate the detrimental results on the surroundings and an elevated drive for sustainability, technicians might want to think about the entire life cycle of a constructed asset, guaranteeing constructing service engineering methods and tasks align with United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets (UNSDG), reply to net-zero emissions targets and are compliant with local weather change acts, and environmental and sustainability insurance policies and laws.
Constructing companies engineering technicians will contribute to the planning, design, programming, undertaking administration, or supply of engineering actions to agreed timescales and budgets, utilizing high quality methods and threat evaluation procedures to observe and handle tasks and their dangers. Technicians can also help in web site inspections or surveys, report progress in opposition to undertaking plans, or verify specified technical facets of design, web site or manufacturing actions.
Of their day by day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with their line supervisor, usually a senior constructing companies engineer or web site supervisor, to verify programmes of labor and agree particular person tasks, which in flip assist the supply of wider plans throughout constructing companies engineering groups; these groups may embody engineers throughout a variety of disciplines, resembling mechanical, electrical or public well being engineering, from varied employer varieties (e.g. shoppers, consultancies, contractors), and undertaking managers, the place their collective outputs will probably be used to provide constructing companies engineering options which can be match for goal, protected, safe, environmentally sustainable, and meet buyer and trade specs.
Technicians shall even have a mentor who will assist them within the growth of their profession plans, upkeep of their private {and professional} growth, and in some instances, development into extra superior roles, resembling constructing companies engineers or technical specialists.
Technicians can also be uncovered to different skilled disciplines, resembling civils, lighting and acoustics engineers, surveyors, architects, planners, environmental practitioners, or authorized groups. In addition to liaising with inner colleagues throughout quite a lot of multidisciplinary areas, some technicians will even be chargeable for working with prospects, suppliers, producers, and stakeholders or with representatives from applicable regulatory our bodies.
Constructing companies 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, suppliers, or producers.
An worker on this occupation will probably be chargeable for aiding within the supply of correct and high quality constructing companies engineering options, guaranteeing they’re inside agreed time and useful resource limits, compliant with well being and security laws, to trade, regulatory and legislative requirements, such because the Constructing Security Invoice, and to outlined specs.
They are going to usually report back to an engineer or undertaking supervisor, usually as a part of a cross purposeful crew, the dimensions of this crew and tasks various with the scope of the undertaking and dimension of the employer.
Additionally they have a duty to plan and organise their very own work and contribute to the administration of tasks utilizing quite a lot of enterprise processes, procedures, and strategies of working, and adjust to the insurance policies and steerage of their office, resembling these related to employment, well being, wellbeing and welfare, and moral {and professional} conduct.
Technicians are ready to make use of their very own judgement when endeavor the occupational duties and making use of their technical information, expertise, and behaviours in a variety of contexts and environments. They’re additionally chargeable for their very own persevering with skilled growth and recognising their very own obligations to society.
Typical job titles embody:
Assistant technician
Constructing companies engineering technician
Building technician
Design technician
Electrical engineering technician
Engineering technician
Infrastructure technician
Junior web site technician
Mechanical engineering technician
Undertaking administration technician
Public well being engineering technician
Web site technician
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Information
K1: Applicable engineering rules, underpinned by related mathematical, scientific, and technical information and understanding, referring to constructing companies engineering and the development or manufacturing course of
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K2: Applicable constructing companies engineering methods and strategies used to design, set up, fee, preserve or function buildings and infrastructure, the requirements, contracts, and specs used, and their impression on the development or manufacturing course of
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K3: Key rules, methods and strategies of information and technical data assortment, evaluation and analysis utilized in delivering constructing companies engineering fashions (resembling Constructing Data Modelling), designs, and technical options
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K4: Technical drawings, designs, and Constructing Data Fashions, utilizing computer-based software program packages, resembling Pc Aided Design (CAD) or modelling software program (Revit), and their use within the sector
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K5: Statutory well being, security and welfare insurance policies, procedures, and laws, together with threat administration, in relation to constructing companies engineering undertaking supply
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K6: Business insurance policies, requirements, laws and legislations (resembling Constructing Security laws), and codes of apply (resembling Widespread Security Technique (CSM) and Building Design and Administration (CDM)), that have to be adhered to within the constructing companies engineering surroundings
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K7: Rules of sustainable growth, together with these referring to United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets (UNSDG) and net-zero carbon emissions, environmental insurance policies and legislations, the local weather change act, and their impression on the design, supply, and upkeep of constructing companies engineering tasks
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K8: Understanding of equality, range and inclusion, and its impression on constructing companies engineering options
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K9: Undertaking administration, together with high quality and data administration and assurance methods and steady enchancment processes, as utilized to constructing companies engineering
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K10: Strategies of communication and when to make use of them, together with the way to write technical reviews and current technical data, utilizing applicable engineering terminology and conventions
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K11: Moral rules as utilized to constructing companies engineering and the safety of information and data
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K12: The values and requirements by which they preserve their private, skilled, and technical information and expertise by way of preliminary skilled growth (IPD) and persevering with skilled growth (CPD)
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Abilities
S1: Apply applicable constructing companies engineering rules, methods, and strategies, together with mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to constructing companies engineering and the development or manufacturing course of
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S2: Apply key rules, methods and strategies of information and technical data assortment, evaluation and analysis to assist the supply of constructing companies engineering fashions (resembling Constructing Data Modelling), designs, and technical options
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S3: Function computer-based software program packages, resembling Pc Aided Design (CAD) or modelling software program (Revit) to provide and current technical data and documentation with related conventions and engineering terminology
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S4: Apply statutory well being, security and welfare insurance policies, procedures, and laws within the constructing companies engineering surroundings, utilizing threat administration processes, procedures, and documentation
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S5: Assist and contribute to the manufacturing or modification of constructing companies engineering technical options in accordance with related trade requirements, procedures, codes of apply, laws, and laws, such because the Constructing Security laws.
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S6: Apply rules of sustainable growth, together with these referring to United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets (UNSDG), environmental insurance policies and legislations in constructing companies engineering tasks, recognising the necessity to scale back carbon use, decrease emissions, and wider sustainability
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S7: Plan, perform and handle personal work consistent with high quality assurance methods and processes, 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 constructing companies engineering tasks
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S9: Apply doc management processes and procedures utilizing the permitted processes, sustaining high quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
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S10: Talk utilizing applicable strategies for the viewers, and incorporate related and applicable phrases, requirements, and information
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S11: Apply moral rules to constructing companies engineering tasks, together with the safe use of information and data
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S12: Plan, undertake and evaluation their very own skilled competence, commonly updating and reviewing their CPD to enhance efficiency
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Behaviours
B1: Complies with well being, security and welfare necessities, trade requirements, statutory regulation and laws, insurance policies, and codes of apply
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B2: Works independently, working in a scientific, proactive, and clear method, utilizing assets successfully to finish duties, understanding their limitations and when to ask for assist or escalate
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B3: Applies a structured strategy to downside fixing with consideration to element, accuracy, and diligence
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B4: Is motivated when collaborating in groups, providing wise problem, displays on and offers constructive suggestions and contributes to discussions
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B5: Maintains skilled and moral working relationships with inner, exterior, and related stakeholders
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B6: Takes duty for their very own skilled growth, in search of alternatives to boost their information, expertise, 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 Stage 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 Stage 3 Nationwide Diploma in Constructing Companies Engineering
Stage: 3
Ofqual regulated
All apprentices will probably be required to realize at the least, one in all these necessary {qualifications}. These {qualifications} have been permitted by one of many skilled engineering establishments as assembly the educational outcomes for Engineering Technician (EngTech). Different {qualifications} could also be added at a later date, however should obtain approval from one of many skilled engineering establishments licenced by the Engineering Council and meet the Institute’s standards for inclusion.
Pearson BTEC Stage 3 Nationwide Prolonged Diploma in Constructing Companies Engineering
Stage: 3
Ofqual regulated
All apprentices will probably be required to realize at the least, one in all these necessary {qualifications}. These {qualifications} have been permitted by one of many skilled engineering establishments as assembly the educational outcomes for Engineering Technician (EngTech). Different {qualifications} could also be added at a later date, however should obtain approval from one of many skilled engineering establishments licenced by the Engineering Council and meet the Institute’s standards for inclusion.
EAL Stage 3 Electrotechnical Qualification
Stage: 3
Ofqual regulated
All apprentices will probably be required to realize at the least, one in all these necessary {qualifications}. These {qualifications} have been permitted by one of many skilled engineering establishments as assembly the educational outcomes for Engineering Technician (EngTech). Different {qualifications} could also be added at a later date, however should obtain approval from one of many skilled engineering establishments licenced by the Engineering Council and meet the Institute’s standards for inclusion.
Pearson BTEC Stage 3 Diploma in Superior Manufacturing Engineering (Improvement Technical Information)
Stage: 3
Ofqual regulated
All apprentices will probably be required to realize at the least, one in all these necessary {qualifications}. These {qualifications} have been permitted by one of many skilled engineering establishments as assembly the educational outcomes for Engineering Technician (EngTech). Different {qualifications} could also be added at a later date, however should obtain approval from one of many skilled engineering establishments licenced by the Engineering Council and meet the Institute’s standards for inclusion.
Metropolis and Guilds Stage 3 Electrotechnical Qualification
Stage: 3
Ofqual regulated
All apprentices will probably be required to realize at the least, one in all these necessary {qualifications}. These {qualifications} have been permitted by one of many skilled engineering establishments as assembly the educational outcomes for Engineering Technician (EngTech). Different {qualifications} could also be added at a later date, however should obtain approval from one of many skilled engineering establishments licenced by the Engineering Council and meet the Institute’s standards for inclusion.
Skilled recognition
This commonplace aligns with the next skilled recognition:
- Engineering Council for Engineering Technician (EngTech)
Further particulars
Occupational Stage:
3
Length (months):
32
Evaluation
This apprenticeship commonplace will probably be reviewed after three years
