Construction Design & Build Technician
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You’re the Jack or Jill of all trades and assisting with essential building tasks.
Overview
As a Construction Design & Build Technician you will assist with building tasks such as building plans and designs.
You may also be a dab hand at assisting budget progression and monitoring the quality of supplies.
Typical job titles can include Assistant Design Co-ordinator or Design and Build Co-ordinator. In the case of SME construction companies the roles are likely to include Design Co-ordinator or Design Manager.
They are associated with the co-ordination of design information on construction projects and are based on construction sites with occasional time in offices.
Top 5 Tasks
- Sort client’s requirements in construction projects
- Look for health and safety risks in project design
- Assisting architects with the development of a construction project
- Monitoring of quality on a construction project
- Assisting commercial staff
Salary
This is a new role in development and salaries will vary depending on what area you work in.
Am I Suited?
- Team player
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communicator
- Designer
- Technically-minded
Over 320,000 women work in construction in the UK.
Qualifications
Individual employers will determine their own entry requirements, but the typical entry requirements for this role will be five GCSEs or equivalent, including maths, English and a science; or a Level 2 Apprenticeship.
Someone in this may then gain a Level 4 qualification in Construction and Built Environment that meets the knowledge requirements of the standard and is approved by the industry’s recognised professional bodies, meeting the educational requirements for Technician status or the equivalent level of membership.
