Civil Engineering Technician

On a civil engineering technician apprenticeship course, you’ll help provide technical support to engineers and other construction professionals.

A civil engineering technician works alongside engineers and other construction professionals to design, build, commission, decommission, operate, and maintain the built environment and infrastructure.

As an apprentice technician, you will acquire various skills that will prepare you for employment in sustainable construction, structural integrity, geotechnics, materials, tunnelling, marine and coastal engineering, water, waste management, flood control, transportation, and electricity. In addition, your duties may be design, analysis, project management, and site engineering.

What you’ll learn

On a civil engineering technician apprenticeship course, you’ll learn to:

• Apply appropriate civil engineering ideas, methods, and processes to civil engineering and construction, including mathematical, scientific, and technical knowledge.
• Use key data and technical information collecting, analysing, and evaluating ideas, methods, and methodologies to help provide civil engineering models, designs, and technical solutions.
• Use appropriate data collecting and analysis tools, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) or Building Information Modelling (BIM), to create technical drawings, models, and designs that conform to relevant standards and engineering terminology.
• Use risk management techniques, processes, and documentation in the civil engineering environment to execute statutory health, safety, and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Support and contribute to creating or modifying civil engineering technical solutions according to industry standards, regulations, procedures, and practice codes.
• Implement environmental laws and sustainable principles in civil engineering projects, recognise the need to reduce carbon footprints and emissions and plan for long-term sustainability.
• Plan, execute and monitor one’s work in line with quality assurance standards while keeping in mind the wider implications for client needs and working within cost and resource limitations.
• Consider equality, diversity, and inclusion while carrying out civil engineering projects.
• Use authorised document control techniques and processes to generate or update engineering documentation while maintaining quality compliance.
• Use appropriate communication methods for the audience, and incorporate appropriate language, standards, and data.
• Integrate ethical considerations into civil engineering projects, such as data and information security.
• Plan, conduct, and assess your professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing your CPD to improve performance.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

• 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), or equivalent, including English and maths, for an advanced apprenticeship.
• Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this before taking the end-point assessment.

Assessment methods

The End Point Assessment comprises two distinct assessment methods: 

• Technical project report and presentation with questioning 
• Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 3 Civil Engineering Technician Apprenticeship standard can be found here.

Apprenticeship end point assessment

For more information about the End Point Assessment Process, please read the Institute of Apprenticeships’ information page.