Digital Engineering Technician

You’ll help complete complex tasks using digital engineering techniques on a digital engineering technician apprenticeship course.

As a digital engineering technician, you’ll utilise digital models and presentations to offer complete solutions to guarantee that built-environment projects operate as well as they possibly can.

You’ll learn to use software, drawings, and electronic visualisations to help digital engineers and other functional specialists with challenging tasks.

You will gain knowledge and expertise in digital techniques: virtualisation and simulation; digital measurement; digital communication of complex engineering principles to stakeholders; construction data and information integration; and adherence to digital information standards and regulations.

You may become a construction design manager, quantity surveyor, construction site manager, or civil engineering site manager.

What you’ll learn

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

• Extract reports and graphics for tool-box presentations and site-inductions using models and simulations.
• Evaluate, identify, and record the project’s environmental impact, using models to demonstrate to stakeholders how waste may be minimised.
• Assist in implementing engineering ideas by using current and emerging engineering technology.
• Make simple commercial schedules and reports that show digital processes.
• Use a digital process, create early design briefs, recommendations, programmes, and complete designs while keeping design risks and responsibilities in mind.
• Contribute to value-demonstrating case studies to aid in the implementation of innovation. Excellent general information technology skills and their application
• Create basic construction simulations and logistics planning using a computerised method.
• Use the digital environment to assess and report on project quality criteria.
• Assess how the current work connects to the construction industry. expressing one’s stance in the construction industry and emphasising how it connects with other industries/disciplines
• Contribute to the expansion of stakeholder engagement by giving a stakeholder presentation and demonstrating appropriate presenting abilities.
• Participate in the transfer of digital assets to demonstrate your ability to move information from project delivery to commissioning and operation.

Entry requirements

You’ll usually need:

• Five GCSEs, including maths and English, or a level 2 apprenticeship 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: 

• Synoptic Project Task
• Interview

Duration, level, subjects and potential salary upon completion

Apprenticeship standard

More information about the Level 3 Digital 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.