Job Description

How you'll make a difference:

As a Civil Engineering Technician Apprentice, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of transport projects that enhance road safety and alleviate congestion for the South Gloucestershire community. Supporting your team, you will be helping to create more accessible travel options that include improved routes for buses, pedestrians and cyclists.



The StreetCare Design Team is responsible for the detailed design and construction of traffic and transport projects in South Gloucestershire. In contrast, the Assess and Decide Team focuses on preliminary design proposals by assessing and investigating requests for various highway improvements. Each team is seeking a Civil Engineer Technician Level 3 Apprentice to join them.


What you will be doing:
Working as part of the Design Team, you will help produce detailed design and construction plans and documents for varied traffic management and active travel schemes, ensuring they comply with legislation. Consulting on your designs with the public, you will produce legal orders where required to ensure the best possible outcomes when the schemes are built. As part of the Assess and Decide Team, you will write to and speak with people requesting highways improvements. Undertaking investigations, you will collect and analyse data, assessing the demands against council values and ultimately recommend options to meet those requests in a viable and cost-effective way. You will learn how to design highway and transport projects by assisting team members, and independently on your own projects with support; or by assessing and investigating requests for new highway improvements and producing outline designs. Working as part of either team will help you learn how to use a wide range of guidance and legal regulations to produce drawings, reports and online consultation material. Using AutoCAD, GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping software and other specialist software, you will have the opportunity to learn how to produce engineering drawings to assist team members in design or investigation of schemes. Through producing product documents and communicating technical information to a varied audience, you will improve your Microsoft Office skills using products such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook. Regularly, you will engage with stakeholders both inside and outside of the organisation, ranging from Members of Parliament to residents and school age children through our consultations.

What we need from you:
Ideally, you will hold a minimum of 5 GCSEs (grade A to C/4 to 9) including English and science. Please note, you will need to hold a grade B/6 in maths which is an entry requirement for Weston College. Given the elements of the role, you must have good attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, error free work. It would be advantageous to have effective IT and numeracy skills including the ability to accurately update information systems and databases. You must have good communication skills and able to follow instructions. You should be enthusiastic in your approach to work with an interest in street improvements and highway engineering.

What you need to know

All candidates that successfully reach the interview stages will be required to provide a 10-minute presentation as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who do not provide a presentation at interview will not progress through the recruitment process. This is a 36-month limited term contract for the duration of the apprenticeship programme. Interviews will be held on 18th June 2025. Throughout your 36-month apprenticeship, we will allocate you a workplace mentor to give you guidance and support in completing your Level 3 Civil Engineering Technician. This will involve day release learning at Weston College, South West Skills Campus, Locking Road, BS22 8NL. The council will cover the cost of your travel expenses to the college As part of this training route, you will need to undertake a basic skills assessment as part of the selection process. These will be emailed to you by the training provider, Weston College. The salary for this apprenticeship is set at the current National Minimum Wage:




Age Hourly rate Annual salary

21 + 12.21 23,492

18 - 20 10.00 19,240

16-17 7.55 14,526

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities. What's special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.



We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses. We're providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We're making a difference, be part of it!

For further information please refer to the Apprenticeship - Civil Engineering Technician Apprentice 0425