Civil Engineering Degree Apprentice
WILLIAM HARE LIMITED
Lancashire (BL8 1JJ)
Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026
Posted on 20 February 2026
Contents
Summary
As a Civil Engineering Degree Apprentice, you will work within our Engineering Team while studying towards a BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Degree with Liverpool John Moors University.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Civil engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Based in our Bury office, sites around the country and completing your degree at Liverpool John Moors University.
Monday to Thursday, 8.30am - 5.00pm.
Friday, 8.30am - 1.30pm.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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5 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
- Assist in coordinating engineering activities across multiple projects
- Support the management of engineering programmes (design and detailing phases)
- Help prepare and distribute technical documentation and drawing registers
- Assist in coordinating material requirements and preliminary lists
- Support connection and member design activities under supervision
- Assist in reviewing drawings and calculations prior to issue
- Learn to interpret 3D models and extract relevant engineering information
- Understand how structural elements interact and how engineering decisions are justified
- Assist in processing Technical Queries (TQs), RFIs and design clarifications
- Liaise with internal departments including Projects, Construction and Fabrication
- Attend internal and external meetings as required
- Support the coordination of variations and technical updates
- Assist in implementing internal technical guidance notes and work instructions
- Develop understanding of industry standards and compliance requirements
- Contribute to maintaining accurate engineering records and documentation
Where you'll work
Brandlesholme House
Brandlesholme Road
Bury
Lancashire
BL8 1JJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY
Training course
Civil engineer (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply engineering principles to solve engineering problems: scientific, theoretical and technical principles.
- Apply civil engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review and evaluate the results, including measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, constructing, maintaining or operating civil engineering components and systems; consider how continuous improvement can contribute to improved performance.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret and compare information to select materials, components or parts used in civil engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate civil engineering problems.
- Produce civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model civil engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of civil engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of civil engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against civil engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
- Apply engineering principles to solve engineering problems: scientific, theoretical and technical principles.
- Apply civil engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review and evaluate the results, including measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, constructing, maintaining or operating civil engineering components and systems; consider how continuous improvement can contribute to improved performance.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret and compare information to select materials, components or parts used in civil engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate civil engineering problems.
- Produce civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model civil engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of civil engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of civil engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against civil engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
Training schedule
- You will attend Liverpool John Moors University on a day release basis, completing your HNC and degree over 5 years
- You will follow a learning plan in the workplace, supported by a mentor
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
- Engineering, Construction or other STEM-Related (grade DMM/Minimum 112UCAS points)
- English (grade 6)
- Mathematics and a STEM-related subject (grade BBC/Minimum 104 UCAS points)
- Maths (grade 6)
- Science (grade 6)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this employer
The William Hare Group is a family owned business with origins in the UK dating back to the 1880s. William Hare is Europe’s largest independent structural steel contractor, specialising in engineering, fabrication and erection of steel structures – such as Manchester airport (T2), Trafford Centre and Hinkley Point C. Throughout the world, the group has carried out projects in over 50 countries and currently employs over 2000 skilled staff.
After this apprenticeship
- Once qualified, you will become a junior or assistant quantity surveyor or depending on your progress a quantity surveyor or the opportunity to become a project QS
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000017031.
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Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026