Construction Materials Technician Apprentice (Level 3)

Tiro; Lochgilphead; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure group is seeking an Apprentice Construction Materials Technician to join their innovative team in Lochgilphead. You will engage in testing properties of construction materials and improving existing products. This apprentice role offers extensive training and practical experience, allowing you to grow your skills in a collaborative environment. You'll also ensure safety and quality standards are met in a UKAS accredited laboratory.

Benefits

Starting salary of £20,350 - £24,985 per year

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Regular training and CPD opportunities

Responsibilities

• Test properties of construction materials including concrete, aggregates, cement, grout, and admixtures.
• Improve performance of existing products and trial them for optimal performance.
• Assist with materials testing using new technologies and methods.
• Understand practical methods used to examine materials, including non-destructive testing (NDT).
• Follow testing methods to ensure safety and quality in the laboratory.

Job description

Overview

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. They design, build, finance and operate the major infrastructure that we all depend on.

With over 110 years of experience in delivering highly complex infrastructure schemes through to projects at the heart of local communities, they operate with the highest levels of quality, safety, and technical expertise, integrate with customers and local supply chains and support local communities.

Package

• Starting salary of £20,350 - £24,985 per year (depending on age)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Monday to Thursday, 8:00am – 6:00pm; Friday, 8:00am – 12:00pm (working hours can fluctuate depending on project demands and weather conditions)
• 42 hours per week
• Paid weekend overtime (Saturday morning) as and when required
• Regular training and CPD opportunities

About the role

Balfour Beatty is all about solving problems and finding solutions that make the world work better. Joining us as an apprentice, you’ll help shape these answers right from your first day. You’ll learn. You’ll gain skills. You’ll explore our business and our sectors – having real control over where you go and what you experience next. And you’ll do it all as part of a busy community of apprentices, interns, trainees, and graduates.

Responsibilities

• What will I be doing as an Construction Materials Technician Apprentice?
• Working alongside other team members, testing the properties of construction materials including concrete, aggregates, cement, grout, and admixtures.
• Improving the performance of existing products, and trialling them to provide the most optimum performance.
• Assisting to bring materials testing into the 21st century using new technologies (e.g., Switching over to automated processes, more ergonomic equipment or even new recording and reporting systems or methods).
• Developing an understanding, knowledge and practical methods used to examine materials, including non-destructive testing (NDT).
• Following testing methods to ensure safety and quality to support the laboratory in maintaining its UKAS accreditation (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) to BS EN ISO 17025 whilst operating at the highest standards required by such a prestigious project.
• Travelling to and from sites, collecting materials to be tested.