Structural Engineering Degree Apprenticeship
ECOTECH ENGINEERS LIMITED
Chesterfield (S41 8NG)
Closes on Saturday 31 January 2026
Posted on 19 December 2025
Contents
Summary
Ecotech Engineers are excited to share that we are looking for a Degree Apprentice to join our team and begin a career in residential structural engineering. This role combines practical experience with a fully funded university degree, giving you the chance to work on real housing projects while developing strong technical skills.
- Wage
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£21,000 a year
- Training course
- Civil engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 March 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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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
As an Engineering Apprentice at Ecotech Engineers, you will be involved in diverse projects and will help to deliver innovative design solutions across a broad range of clients, with our senior engineers supporting you along the way.
You’ll be involved with our engineers in:
- Foundation design and structural assessments
- Producing foundation schedules, zoning plans and CAD mark-ups
- Supporting Senior CAD Technician with drafting duties
- Reviewing site investigation information and technical data
- Attending site visits with senior staff
- Problem solving and designing simple structural engineering tasks
- Supporting senior engineering team to prepare design outputs for architects, developers and housebuilders
The post will offer the successful applicant an interesting, challenging and varied workload in a fast-paced environment, as well as allowing them to develop personally and professionally, as an engineer.
Your responsibilities will grow as your knowledge develops. We will also guide you through any elements of the course that aren’t typically part of our day-to-day work.
Where you'll work
Unit 109 Dunston Innovation Centre
Chesterfield
S41 8NG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY
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).
Training schedule
- You’ll be enrolled onto a Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship which starts in September 2026, working towards a BEng (Hons), with one day per week spent at Derby University for your off-the-job learning
- We will support your professional development with IStructE or ICE throughout your training
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Other 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Self-motivated
- Positive attitude
- Willingness to assist
- Independent working
- Curious, eager to learn
About this employer
Ecotech Engineers has consecutively, year after year, continued to deliver high quality and well executed projects which has cemented our position in the industry with an expanding Client base and increased project size. We specialise in the UK residential sector collaborating with large scale Developers to deliver new housing schemes across the UK with innovative designs, promoting economic designs and always striving to look around problems and find the best solutions to suit our clients. Ecotech is an award-winning consultancy highlighting our success over the past five years of practice and demonstrating the importance of all our individual employees contributions to the team with recognised for the Outstanding Growth 2023, Small Business of the Year in 2024 and managed by Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. Therefore, we are not the standard structural engineering consultancy.
http://www.ecotechengineers.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Hospitality tickets to Chesterfield FC
- Competitive pension contributions
- Free parking at the office
After this apprenticeship
- The degree will set the candidate into the engineering profession with the aim to forward them into a Masters in Structural Engineering and then support to become a chartered structural engineer
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005604.
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Closes on Saturday 31 January 2026