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Be a Part of Engineering Construction
An ECITB Apprenticeship is the foundation for an exciting and well paid career with really great prospects in engineering construction. There are plenty of opportunities and completing an Apprenticeship qualifies you for work on some awesome projects like the 2012 Olympic sports facilities and stadia and North Sea oil and gas platforms.
And if you want to travel - thousands of UK trained personnel work in engineering construction all over the world. Interested?
What is an ECITB Apprenticeship?
An ECITB Apprenticeship is a 3-year training scheme for new entrants, which helps you to learn a specialist trade or skill for the engineering construction industry. You combine learning at college with plenty of practical work experience. From the beginning, you are sponsored by an employer within the industry and will work with your sponsor in the second and third years of your Apprenticeship. The training works towards a recognised qualification in a craft, as a technician or project controller. Apprentices almost always work for their sponsor company at the end of the scheme – so you get trained, get qualified and get a job!
What is engineering construction?
The pipefitters in the North Sea, the project controllers and the welders working on the new 2012 Olympics stadium in all have one thing in common – they work in engineering construction. Engineering construction is a huge industry with heaps of opportunities for a varied and interesting career – and the money’s good too.
Engineering construction workers are responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of all types of infrastructure and process plant in a vast range of sectors, for example:
- Power generation including oil, gas, coal, renewables and nuclear
- Refineries, pipelines and offshore rigs for oil and gas
- Petrochemical and chemical
- Water collection, treatment and distribution
- Steel, metal, cement, glass, paper, polymers
- Pharmaceuticals
- Brewing, distillation and food production
- Environmental waste disposal and recycyling
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- Jim Kinnell
- Head of Apprenticeships Programmes
- Theresa Bisgrove
- Apprenticeships Administrator