Apprenticeship - Construction Support Technician Apprentice

Yate, England, United Kingdom

4/15/2025

How You'll Make a Difference

Our StreetCare Design and Operations team are playing a key role in the delivery of an ambitious programme to deliver over £100m worth of investment in active travel through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) programme. This involves constructing a new high-quality footway, cycleway links, improvements to public transport and the reopening of Charfield Railway Station.

As a Construction Support Technician apprentice, you will be predominantly site-based working with our delivery teams to ensure efficient execution of the construction phase. You will get involved in versatile activities using digital processes and systems to secure future projects and enable progress and completion of actual construction sites.

What You Will Be Doing

• Working alongside our experienced staff, you will support with the coordination of construction site based projects alongside supervisory and technical teams.
• You will have the opportunity to assist in the production of risk assessments and method statements as well as with the development of estimates relevant to the project.
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, you will ensure records of communications are kept up-to-date and accurate contractual records are kept.
• Using technical drawings, you will support with the production of resource lists based on estimates. You will identify requirements and implement progress reports, early warning notifications and compensation events.
• You will be taught how to undertake the procurement of project materials, plant and sub-contractors.
  
  

What We Need From You

• Ideally, you will hold a minimum of GCSE (grades 1-9/A-F) or equivalent qualification in English and maths or be willing to undertake and gain Level 2 Functional Skills in English and maths as part of the apprenticeship.
• Given the nature of the role, you must have the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• You will have a good work ethic and commitment to gaining your qualification, learning on the job and employment.
  
  

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.
• The apprenticeship is programmed to be delivered on a weekly day release learning during term time only over the 24 months of training. This requires attendance to, South Gloucestershire and Stroud Horizon, Units E & F, Taurus Road, Filton, BS34 6FE. The council will cover your travel expenses.
• The salary for this apprenticeship is set at the current National Minimum Wage:
  
  

Age Hourly rate Annual salary

21 + £12.21 £23,557

18-20 £10.00 £19,292

16-17 £7.55 £14,566

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.
  
  

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 job description Apprenticeship - Construction Support Tech Apprentice 0425