Apprentice Engineer
SWANN ENGINEERING GROUP LTD.
Essex (CM7 2YN)
Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 17 June 2025)
Posted on 20 May 2025
Contents
Summary
An exciting opportunity to develop the necessary skills and confidence to work as a highly competent Engineer within Swann Engineering Group, undertaking work-based secondments within a structural steelwork engineering and manufacturing environment to support and enhance the academic work being done as part of a degree apprentice programme.
- Wage
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£21,480 a year
- Training course
- Civil engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4:30pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 1 August 2025
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
CAD Team:
- Contribute to production engineering and liaise with the manufacturing department, producing high quality dxf files for programme input to the CNC/Plasma machine
- Undertake a wide range of design work, producing reinforced concrete foundation drawings, steelwork fabrication drawings and 2D and 3D elevation design drawings
- Create design drawings using the companies BIM software ‘Tekla’
- Create accurate material schedules for material ordering
Engineering Team:
- Undertake steel tower (GDC) assessments using MSTower/TOADS and existing appraisal spreadsheets
- Undertake site and client visits as required
- Undertake steelwork structural design including steel member design checks and connection design, using analysis software STaad Pro, design spreadsheets and hand calculations
- Undertake foundation design
Projects/Sales Team:
- Co-ordinate telecoms/tower project work, liaising with client, design and site teams
- Monitor and track project budgets and deliver steelwork projects within budget
- Ensure steelwork works orders (WO) are successfully issued into the factory and that programme milestones are understood and agreed
- Co-ordinate project deliveries to site to ensure construction work is started and completed on time
- Sequencing and programming of site works with third parties and service providers
- Managing CDM and H&S obligations through life cycle of a project
- Estimating and quoting projects
Where you'll work
6 Springwood Drive
Springwood Industrial Estate
Braintree
Essex
CM7 2YN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION
Your training course
Civil engineer (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply engineering principles to solve engineering problems: scientific, theoretical and technical principles.
- Apply civil engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review and evaluate the results, including measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, constructing, maintaining or operating civil engineering components and systems; consider how continuous improvement can contribute to improved performance.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret and compare information to select materials, components or parts used in civil engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate civil engineering problems.
- Produce civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model civil engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of civil engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of civil engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against civil engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
- Apply engineering principles to solve engineering problems: scientific, theoretical and technical principles.
- Apply civil engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review and evaluate the results, including measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, constructing, maintaining or operating civil engineering components and systems; consider how continuous improvement can contribute to improved performance.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret and compare information to select materials, components or parts used in civil engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate civil engineering problems.
- Produce civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model civil engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of civil engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of civil engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against civil engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
Your training plan
- BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering
- Delivered via a day release model at Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford campus
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English and two other subjects (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade B/5)
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Any including Maths or Science (grade 88 UCAS Points (CCD))BTEC in:
Engineering (grade 88 UCAS Points)Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Initiative
Other requirements
TO APPLY: Please email a CV and Cover Letter to hr.department@swanngroupltd.com. 1st round – Teams interview 2nd round – Face to face interview and project and site tour Please also consider how you would travel to work due to the nature of the job.
About this company
From Telecommunications, Outdoor Media, Structural & Architectural, Floodlighting & Gantries and Defence & Radar solutions, we can draw upon years of experience and a proven global track record to tackle bespoke engineering projects of any size in any sector.
https://swanngroupltd.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
We have a vibrant social scene if you want to take part including Summer and Winter BBQ’s a Christmas and Summer event.
After this apprenticeship
Graduate Engineer status and opportunity to be supported in further academic studies.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION
hr.department@swanngroupltd.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000321749.
Apply now
Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 17 June 2025)
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Company’s application instructions
TO APPLY: Please email a CV and Cover Letter to hr.department@swanngroupltd.com