Civil Engineering Apprentice
EUROTUNNEL SERVICES LIMITED
Kent (CT18 8XX)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 1 August 2025)
Posted on 16 July 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Civil Engineering Apprentice to join our dynamic civil engineering team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to launch a career in civil engineering, contributing to a range of infrastructure and tunnel maintenance projects while working towards a nationally recognised qualification.
- Wage
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£24,242 a year
- Training course
- Civil engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, shifts, may work evenings and weekends.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 16 September 2025
- Duration
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2 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
Key Areas of Development:
- Engineering Fundamentals: Understand core principles, including mathematics, physics, and mechanics.
- Construction Materials and Methods: Learn about construction materials and their properties. Understand construction techniques and processes.
- Structural Analysis and Design: Study how loads and forces affect structures. Assist in designing safe and efficient buildings, bridges, and roads.
- Geotechnical Engineering: Explore soil and rock behaviour under various conditions.Support assessments of foundation and slope stability.
- Transportation Engineering: Learn about the design and planning of roads, railways, and highways. Understand traffic flow and infrastructure management.
- Environmental Engineering: Gain awareness of environmental impacts and sustainability in engineering. Learn about pollution control and water management.
- Hydraulics and Water Resources: Study fluid dynamics and water interaction with infrastructure. Assist in designing drainage systems, dams, and reservoirs.
- Project Management: Develop skills in scheduling, budgeting, and risk assessment. Contribute to delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Communication and Collaboration: Build effective communication skills for working with teams and stakeholders. Learn to interpret technical drawings and produce clear reports.
- Health and Safety: Understand construction site safety regulations. Promote and implement safety measures on-site.
- Professional Ethics and Conduct: Learn about ethical responsibilities and professional standards. Demonstrate integrity, accountability, and professionalism.
Where you'll work
Uk Terminal
Ashford Road
Folkestone
Kent
CT18 8XX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LEARNING SKILLS PARTNERSHIP LTD
Training course
Civil engineering technician (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply appropriate civil engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to civil engineering and the construction process
- Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis, and evaluation to support the delivery of civil engineering models, designs, and technical solutions
- Operate appropriate software packages for data gathering and analysis, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Building Information Modelling (BIM), to create technical drawings, models and designs using relevant conventions and engineering terminology
- Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the civil engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
- Support and contribute to the production or modification of civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and procedures and codes of practice
- Apply environmental policies and sustainable principles in civil engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions and plan for wider sustainability
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
- Consider equality, diversity and inclusion in the delivery of civil engineering projects
- Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
- Apply ethical principles to civil engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
- Apply appropriate civil engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to civil engineering and the construction process
- Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis, and evaluation to support the delivery of civil engineering models, designs, and technical solutions
- Operate appropriate software packages for data gathering and analysis, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or Building Information Modelling (BIM), to create technical drawings, models and designs using relevant conventions and engineering terminology
- Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the civil engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
- Support and contribute to the production or modification of civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and procedures and codes of practice
- Apply environmental policies and sustainable principles in civil engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions and plan for wider sustainability
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
- Consider equality, diversity and inclusion in the delivery of civil engineering projects
- Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
- Apply ethical principles to civil engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
Training schedule
Online, with a mandatory 2.5days block release in May 2026 in Hessle,
East Yorkshire, HU13 0EG.
More training information
Learning Skills Partnership, Hessle,
East Yorkshire, HU13 0EG.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Desirable qualifications
GCSE 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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Eurotunnel, the historic brand of the Getlink Group, is a key player in cross-Channel transport of cars, trucks, passengers and rail freight. Since 1994, it has provided a unique and unbreakable permanent link between the UK and mainland Europe. In almost 30 years, the infrastructure has become a key player in low-carbon transport.
https://www.getlinkgroup.com/en/our-group/eurotunnel/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Civil Engineer.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEARNING SKILLS PARTNERSHIP LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331772.
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Closes in 13 days (Friday 1 August 2025)
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