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Apprentice CAD Technician
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
£15.4k/yr
Posted 1 day ago
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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
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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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Option 1: 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.
Option 2: 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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Option 3: 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.
Option 4: 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.
Option 5: 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.
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.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Full time position upon completion of the apprenticeship.
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Skills
2D CAD
3D CAD
Engineering documentation
Drawing revisions
Design updates
Quality assurance
Health and safety
Continuous improvement
Engineering design
Technical information
Specifications
Engineering drawings
Stakeholder management
Material selection
Sustainable engineering
Problem solving
Project support
Digital record keeping
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Calculation
Measuring techniques
Electrical power design
Control and instrumentation design
Mechanical design
Piping design
Structural design
BIM
Plant Design Management Systems
Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Administrative skills
Team working