Apprentice Engineering Design Technician
MAGNA PROJECTS LTD
Stoke-On-Trent (ST1 3JJ)
Closes on Thursday 15 January 2026
Posted on 2 December 2025
Contents
Summary
An apprentice engineering design technician job description involves assisting with the design of components, structures, and systems using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software and creating technical drawings and models.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Engineering design technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 22 January 2026
- Duration
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3 years 1 months
- 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
- Design and modelling: Create and modify CAD models, technical drawings, and 3D models to company or industry standards.
- Support and development: Assist senior engineers with sub-elements of projects, contribute to innovative solutions, and help develop components.
- Research and analysis: Help identify problems, research potential solutions, analyse design criteria, and make recommendations.
- Technical documentation: Compile design packages, create reports, schedules, and other written documents.
- Quality assurance: Apply quality assurance procedures to drawings and models, check for accuracy, and provide feedback on designs.
- Communication: Communicate design information verbally and in writing to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support in the selection and procurement of materials, ensuring alignment with design intent and budget constraints.
Where you'll work
Churchill House
Regent Road
Stoke-On-Trent
ST1 3JJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
T3 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD
Training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
- Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
- Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
- Select materials and parts.
- Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
- Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
- Provide feedback on engineering designs.
- Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
- Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
- Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
- Read, interpret and establish design intent.
- Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
- Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
- Option 1. Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
- Option 1. Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
- Option 1. Identify cable types and application.
- Option 1. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
- Option 2. Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
- Option 2. Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
- Option 2. Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
- Option 2. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
- Option 3. Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
- Option 3. Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
- Option 3. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
- Option 4. Produce general arrangements of piping design.
- Option 4. Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
- Option 4. Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
- Option 5. Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
- Option 5. Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
- Option 5. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
- Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
- Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
- Select materials and parts.
- Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
- Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
- Provide feedback on engineering designs.
- Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
- Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
- Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
- Read, interpret and establish design intent.
- Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
- Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
Training schedule
More training information
The majority of the training will take place remotely / work based learning, but there are times whereby you will be required to attend the Training Providers (T3) centre to undertake examinations and or courses. T3's centre is based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire - and this would require for you to attend at least two weeks throughout the apprenticeship to undertake examinations / coursework.
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
About this employer
Magna was created to provide a service that is more than just a contractor building out projects for their clients, our focus is to deliver projects from conception to completion, going over and above to satisfy our clients requirements. We have the in house capability, experience and skillset to deliver projects from planning permission stage, to design, and through to construction ensuring all aspects of statutory compliance are met. From Magna’s Head office in Stoke on Trent we are able to complete any project in the Industrial and Commercial sectors across the UK.
After this apprenticeship
Once the apprenticeship has been completed, you may wish to consider higher level qualifications or work based training / development.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
T3 TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003374.
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Closes on Thursday 15 January 2026
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