Level 3 Apprentice Civil Engineering Technician "Oxford"
CoTrain
Didcot (OX11 0GD)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 5 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 November 2025
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Summary
CoTrain have the opportunity to train as an apprentice as a Civil Engineering Technician, supporting onsite Engineers to build a new large structure including the foundations and landscaping of the surrounding area. If you have an interest in construction, problem solving and using mathematics and engineering solutions this is the career for you.
- Wage
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£28,000 a year
- Training course
- Civil engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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The working week is based on 39 hours and site start and finish times will vary but are typically 07:30am to 5:00pm with an hour for breaks during the day. College will be 9am till 5pm.
Evening and weekends if required will be agreed beforehand.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- 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
- Apply civil engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review the results, when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating civil engineering systems.
- Produce civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation
- Comply with, and encourage others to demonstrate, statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation
- Attend a day release online or in person course to learn the theory required to become a civil engineer.
- Identify and use resources, equipment and technology to meet project requirements, including specifications, budget and timescales
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and supervise others, recognising the need to comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) requirements
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, using appropriate engineering terminology and conventions
Apply ethical principles to civil engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information - Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
Where you'll work
Hq Building
Thomson Avenue, Harwell Oxford
Didcot
OX11 0GD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLS4STEM LTD.
Training course
Civil engineering technician (level 3)
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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
Training to gain a Level 3 Civil Engineering Technician Apprenticeship qualification equivalent to "A" Levels will be done on a online day release program.
At present this will be online but we will consider your learning style and a suitable training college or university will be found to suit your location on a day release basis if required.
Requirements
Essential 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Willingness to learn
Other requirements
The position will require you to work mainly on site in all weathers but time will be spent in and out of doors to monitor the progression of the project. Punctuality and reliability will always be of high value as you will have daily responsibilities as you become more competent.
About this employer
CoTrain is a program under SECBE . As a shared apprenticeship scheme and a Flexible Job Apprenticeship Agency partly funded by CITB to provide a route into industry for anyone wishing to complete an apprenticeship. We employ and mentor the apprentice and place them with our construction partners and colleges to gain the correct experience & skills to complete their qualifications.
After this apprenticeship
Upon completion you may continue to study in the same or other construction diciplines at Level 4 to 6 or remain working on site as a Civil Engineer to gain real life experience. Or join a graduate program to learn and earn at the sametime.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SKILLS4STEM LTD.
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001139.
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Closes in 17 days (Friday 5 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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