Apprentice Digital Construction Coordinator
MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
London (E14 5HJ)
Closes in 16 days (Tuesday 23 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 September 2025
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Summary
The Trainee Digital Construction Coordinator will support the Digital Construction team in managing digital workflows, documentation and standards across projects. Including assisting with general queries related to digital construction and contributing to the preparation of project information particulars required by the business and project teams.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Construction design and build technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 27 October 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
- Providing support to the Digital Construction team
- Assist with general queries related to project information models
- Assist with model federation and design coordination
- Undertake QA checks on information models received via the project common data environment
- Assist the Digital Construction Managers/Coordinators with updating information particular
- Assist with project reporting and tracking.
- Contribute to functional project health checks
- Assist with the development and maintenance of the group digital construction templates and standards
- Liaise with project teams to assist with digital construction queries
- Liaise with design teams and subcontractors to assist with digital construction queries
- Support the onboarding of project teams to digital tools and workflows
- Learning how to use Solibri for model checking, and BIMcollab for issue management
- Engage in continuous learning and development activities relation to digital construction
- Take part in the McLaren Apprenticeship Development Programme
Where you'll work
20 Churchill Place
London
E14 5HJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
Training course
Construction design and build technician (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods to interpret and solve technical, engineering and design problems.
- Interpret and compare performance information to choose compliant materials, components and parts.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data.
- Produce design and technical drawings, designs, and models, using analytical and computer-based software packages.
- Produce technical design solutions.
- Comply with industry standards, CDM, statutory regulation and legislation, policies, and codes of practice.
- Comply with health, safety and welfare regulations, standards and guidance.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate and mitigate risk.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and assess impact.
- Apply ethical and data security principles to design projects.
- Prepare written design reports.
- Interact with the operation and maintenance of a Common Data Environment CDE and ensure this maintains integrity and follows agreed protocols and that data security.
- Handle information including validating, managing, disseminating and storing throughout all stages of a project or asset.
- Identify design defects and solve problems to advise a compliant outcome, escalate issues or concerns.
- Apply quality assurance techniques.
- Use computer based software systems and packages to manage construction projects for example BIM tools, data analytics and databases.
- Conduct site inspections of designs and report findings.
- Comply with sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance including the management and designing out of waste.
- Optimise energy use through design of efficient fabric, passive and active design solutions, low energy lighting, building controls, energy performance.
- Optimise site potential and building space.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Apply project management techniques. For example: project budgets, estimating, cost control, cost forecasting, and investment appraisal.
- Interpret and extract relevant information from drawings, specifications and work instructions including BIM, and other task specific modelling software
- Apply mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods to interpret and solve technical, engineering and design problems.
- Interpret and compare performance information to choose compliant materials, components and parts.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data.
- Produce design and technical drawings, designs, and models, using analytical and computer-based software packages.
- Produce technical design solutions.
- Comply with industry standards, CDM, statutory regulation and legislation, policies, and codes of practice.
- Comply with health, safety and welfare regulations, standards and guidance.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate and mitigate risk.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and assess impact.
- Apply ethical and data security principles to design projects.
- Prepare written design reports.
- Interact with the operation and maintenance of a Common Data Environment CDE and ensure this maintains integrity and follows agreed protocols and that data security.
- Handle information including validating, managing, disseminating and storing throughout all stages of a project or asset.
- Identify design defects and solve problems to advise a compliant outcome, escalate issues or concerns.
- Apply quality assurance techniques.
- Use computer based software systems and packages to manage construction projects for example BIM tools, data analytics and databases.
- Conduct site inspections of designs and report findings.
- Comply with sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance including the management and designing out of waste.
- Optimise energy use through design of efficient fabric, passive and active design solutions, low energy lighting, building controls, energy performance.
- Optimise site potential and building space.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Apply project management techniques. For example: project budgets, estimating, cost control, cost forecasting, and investment appraisal.
- Interpret and extract relevant information from drawings, specifications and work instructions including BIM, and other task specific modelling software
Training schedule
Requirements
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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
Our group of companies operates in construction, property, development and investment in the UK and UAE, offering integration of these services to meet customer needs. We apply sector-leading expertise in sustainability and digital construction for both the public and private sectors.
https://mclarengroup.com/careers/early-talent/ (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
- Digital Construction Coordinator
- Digitial Construction Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
Joanna Rose
joanna.rose@mclarengroup.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338108.
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Closes in 16 days (Tuesday 23 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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