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24 The Quadrant
Abingdon, OX14 3YS

Civil/Structural Engineering CAD Technician apprentice

Salary: £18,000 a year
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Apprenticeship
Closing Date: Fri 15 Aug 2025 - 11:59 pm UTC
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Civil/Structural Engineering CAD Technician apprentice

Summary

An excellent introduction to a career as a CAD Technician. You will support Civil and Structural engineers by producing high quality CAD drawings of a range of civil and structural engineering designs.

Annual wage: £18,000 a year
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Training course: Civil engineering senior technician (level 4)

Hours
8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday with a 3/4 hour lunch break each day. No evening or weekend work.
38.75 hours a week

Possible start date: Monday 01 September 2025

Duration: 3 Years

Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • Use a variety of CAD software confidently with a clear understanding of the best way to approach each job.
  • Produce detailed engineering layouts and details to enable house builders to build houses on site.
  • Support engineers in getting technical approval with statutory bodies to meet legal requirements.
  • Complete simple engineering designs including levels and details, carriageway design, external works drawings, conveyance plans, standard details and other engineering tasks as directed.
  • Ensure internal processes are followed (e.g. updating drawing issue registers) so that information about jobs can be easily accessed.
  • Provide administrative support to the team e.g. printing and folding drawings and document control procedures, enabling engineers to focus on design work.

Where you’ll work

24 The Quadrant
Abingdon
OX14 3YS

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

CU APPRENTICESHIPS (BETTER FUTURES) LIMITED

Your training course

Civil engineering senior technician (level 4)

Your training plan

Training will take place via day release to Coventry University during term time and on the job training during university breaks.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English Language (grade Grade 4 (or C))
  • Maths (grade Grade 4 (or C))
  • Science/Maths/Engineering subjects (grade 64 UCAS points)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working

Other requirements

Previous applicants should not apply.

About this company

MJA Consulting is a fast moving, engineering consultancy set in the heart of the Thames Valley. We offer a complete consultancy service from pre-planning through to completion of sites including a range of civil and structural engineering services and utilities. Our extensive experience in this area means we get to work with many different clients over a range of exciting civil engineering projects.

https://www.mjaconsulting.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Access to the company health cash plan, pension scheme and death in service benefits. Ability to purchase additional holiday each year and earn additional holiday for long service.

After this apprenticeship

Apprentices have the opportunity to continue studying and gain a B.Eng in civil engineering. Some students decide to stay with the business without gaining further qualifications and we are also happy to support this.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MJA Consulting
Caroline Elly
[email protected]

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332045.

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Closes on Friday 15 August 2025

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