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Apprentice CAD Technician
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Key Responsibilities:
- Learn to produce and update 2D and 3D CAD drawings
- Assist with the preparation and maintenance of engineering documentation
- Support the engineering team with drawing revisions and design updates
- Ensure drawings are accurate and completed to the required standards
- Liaise with colleagues across different departments to support projects
- Maintain organised digital records and drawing files
- Follow company procedures relating to quality, health and safety, and continuous improvement
- Complete all apprenticeship training and college coursework
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
TDR TRAINING LIMITED
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.
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Options
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Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
- Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
- Identify cable types and application.
- Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
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Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
- Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
- Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
- Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
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Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
- Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
- Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
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Produce general arrangements of piping design.
- Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
- Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
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Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
- Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
- Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
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Training Schedule
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Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English Language or English literature (grade 5 or above)
- Maths (grade 5 or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
About This Employer
TDR Training is here to encourage young people to take an interest in how things work, help to develop an enthusiasm for a lifelong career and provide encouragement, support and guidance to help them achieve their full potential.
We understand the needs of a business and are able to design and deliver a training solution tailor-made for each one, whatever the sector, whatever the size. We’ll start by sending in our Business Support Services Team to conduct a full analysis or training needs to make sure your organisation gets the most effective solution.
Our many years of experience mean we can then help with up-skilling existing employees already in the workforce as well as helping develop recruitment and training strategies and offering bespoke commercial courses in whatever areas you need.
We work with ambitious companies all over the North East, improving workforces, products and market shares.
After This Apprenticeship
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Full time position upon completion of the apprenticeship
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TDR TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043235.
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