Apprentice Site Engineer
SEP ENGINEERS LIMITED
LATHOM (L40 6LN)
Closes in 27 days (Friday 19 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Site Engineering is a critical discipline within the Construction industry, ensuring whatever's being built is completed as per the designs. Our apprenticeship provides an unrivalled introduction to what is a highly regarded and rewarding career through a mix of on and off-site learning led by our dedicated Training Manager.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Civil engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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This will be a full-time apprenticeship. Working hours will be Monday to Friday 7.30am to 4.00pm (except college days).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 26 January 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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2
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
In addition to completing your college-based studies, you will be developing core job skills through a combination of on-site learning (under the tutelage of a mentor) and completion of activity-specific training modules off-site at our offices in Lathom with our Training Manager.
The skills you'd develop and activities you'd undertake would include:
- Reading construction drawings
- Manipulating drawings to extract relevant data
- Transferring data to the total station controller for setting-out purposes
- Understand how to set out the lines & level of various features, predominantly groundworks aspects such as piles, foundations, drainage
- Understand how, when, and why to use various pieces of equipment, including total stations, GPS systems, automatic levels, laser levels and tape measure & string line
- Completing quality assurance checks
- Conducting basic surveys such as for original ground levels or slab levels
Additionally, as you will be working on busy construction sites with ever-changing risk profiles, you will be responsible for keeping yourself and those around you safe by wearing the correct PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) at all times, keeping to designated walkways and making sure Plan Operators and others are aware of your presence.
Upon commencement, you will join one of our experienced Site Engineers, shadowing them to gain an understanding of their role and responsibilities before being tasked with completing your own activities. Throughout the course of the apprenticeship, however, you will work with different mentors on different sites throughout the North West (for example, in Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackpool, Burnley, or Chester), exposing you to alternative approaches and techniques as well as a wider variety of construction processes and activities, accelerating your learning and development.
By the end of the apprenticeship, we would expect you to be able to attend sites on your own and complete certain setting-out and surveying tasks unsupervised.
Where you'll work
UNIT 6
HOLLAND BUSINESS PARK
SPA LANE
LATHOM
L40 6LN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WIGAN AND LEIGH COLLEGE
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
Civil Engineering Technician Level 3.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 and above)
- Maths (grade 4 and above)
Desirable qualifications
T 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Applicants holding a valid driving licence preferred as you will be expected to travel to various sites within the North West.
About this employer
Established in 1986, SEP Engineers is a leading specialist provider of Site Engineering services. We operate throughout the UK supporting all manner of Construction companies with Setting-out, Quality Assurance and Record Keeping activities on projects ranging from single Houses to £multi-million Apartment Blocks, Football Stadia and new Road & Rail Infrastructure.
http://www.sepengineers.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
+ Travel Expenses
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be promoted to Junior Site Engineer.
Thereafter, progression available with our company would be to Site Engineer, then Senior Site Engineer.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WIGAN AND LEIGH COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001762.
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Closes in 27 days (Friday 19 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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