Structural Engineering Design Technician Apprentice
DICE CONSULTING ENGINEERS LTD
NOTTINGHAM, Sheffield
Closes in 30 days (Thursday 30 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 September 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for a motivated Structural Engineering Design Technician Apprentice to join our growing civil and structural engineering practice. This role offers hands-on experience, structured training, and a clear pathway to a rewarding career in engineering design
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Engineering design technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm (Hybrid) Sheffield/Nottingham.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 November 2025
- Duration
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3 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
- Production of drawings and technical information using both REVIT and AutoCAD platforms
- Produce detailing in structural steelwork, concrete, masonry and timber
- Delivering a variety of information including GA’s, sections, details, and 3D models
- Assist with surveys and site inspections and associated reports and schedules
- Working within company BIM protocols and standards within defined project timescale
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the design is fully coordinated
- Prepare issue sheet and other administrative duties to gain an understanding of information management
- Maintain accurate drawing issue records in line with project QA procedures
- Contribute to continuous improvement of drawings and modelling standards
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- 35-37 ST. MARYS GATE, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1PU
- Third Floor Cubo 38 Carver St Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4FS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
T3 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD
Training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
- Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
- Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
- Select materials and parts.
- Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
- Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
- Provide feedback on engineering designs.
- Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
- Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
- Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
- Read, interpret and establish design intent.
- Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
- Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
- Option 1. Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
- Option 1. Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
- Option 1. Identify cable types and application.
- Option 1. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
- Option 2. Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
- Option 2. Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
- Option 2. Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
- Option 2. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
- Option 3. Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
- Option 3. Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
- Option 3. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
- Option 4. Produce general arrangements of piping design.
- Option 4. Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
- Option 4. Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
- Option 5. Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
- Option 5. Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
- Option 5. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
- Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
- Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
- Select materials and parts.
- Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
- Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
- Provide feedback on engineering designs.
- Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
- Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
- Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
- Read, interpret and establish design intent.
- Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
- Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
Training schedule
- 2 and a half years Apprenticeship Programme
- Design Technician, Knowledge, skills & Behaviours – delivered in the workplace
- Level 3 BTEC in Construction and the Built Environment - Day Release or Remote Delivery
- Specialist Training Programme Blocks of your choice
- End Point Assessment - Knowledge Test, Practical Test and Presentation/Interview
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4+)
- Mathematics (grade 4+)
Other in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
Have genuine interest in Civil and Structural Engineering. Have enthusiasm to drive your own career development and a motivation to learn.
About this employer
Dice is a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy operating nationally. Our diverse team of expert engineers offer intelligent civil and structural engineering design suited for a world driven by creativity, technology & interaction. We aim to open new possibilities for all of our clients while operating with a simplified and inclusive approach to business. We are an agile and dynamic team who maintain our core values of customer focus, sustainability, wellbeing and technology in every piece of work that we do. Dice prides itself on being different from other consultancies and we aim to challenge the stereotype of the engineering industry to create a more diverse and inclusive future. We work to create a company culture that our team are proud to be a part of. Working flexibly and offering our team a range of flexible benefits, Dice is about engineering with integrity and working with positivity.
https://diceconsult.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Flexible working hours. Hybrid working. Regular funded team social events. Company performance bonus. Medicash healthcare benefits.
After this apprenticeship
- Opportunities for onward study and progression to Engineering Technician
(EngTech) status with the ICE/IStructE - Once you have completed your apprenticeship, you will have the chance to work as a qualified Engineering Design Technician
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
T3 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD
Will Mackintosh
Will.mackintosh@t3-training.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344376.
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Closes in 30 days (Thursday 30 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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