Apprenticeship training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
Producing engineering designs and drawings for components, structures and systems used in industrial and commercial construction.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 42 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£24,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Building information modelling (bim) technician and industrial design technician
- Cad technician
- Control and instrumentation design technician
- Design technician
- Draughtsperson
- Drawing technician
- Electrical design technician
- Engineering design technician
- Engineering designer
- Mechanical design technician
- Piping design technician
- Structural design technician
- Systems design technician
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- 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.
Full information on Engineering design technician (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.