Infrastructure Apprentice

Join a dynamic civil engineering team delivering sustainable infrastructure projects. This apprenticeship combines practical experience with a degree at the University of Hertfordshire, giving you the skills, knowledge, and support to progress towards a professional engineering career.

What you'll do at work

• Apply engineering principles to support the design of sustainable infrastructure across complex land development projects
• Produce and develop detailed technical drawings and 3D models using industry-standard CAD software
• Contribute to analytical reports, including Flood Risk Assessments, Drainage Strategies, and Utility Assessments
• Support the development of engineering solutions in areas such as drainage and highway design
• Assist with data collection, interpretation, and analysis to inform design decisions
• Take part in site surveys and technical investigations to understand real-world engineering challenges
• Support site inspections and construction monitoring, linking design work to on-site delivery
• Prepare and manage technical documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance with quality standards
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to solve engineering and environmental challenges
• Develop a strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental considerations in engineering design and delivery

Where you'll work

2nd Floor Victory House
Vision Park
Histon
CB24 9ZR

Training provider

UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE

Training course

Civil engineer (level 6)

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).