Engineering Trainee
Job Title: Engineering Trainee
Location: Great Blakenham, IP6
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Engineering Trainee and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Engineering Trainee, you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
The purpose of the role is to provide assistance to the Engineering Team who co-ordinate design and maintain technical support to all regional departments and site based teams to enable the region to achieve its objectives and agreed goals.
Primary Responsibilities
- Help provide Engineering support and technical guidance for regional site and office based operations
- Helping to produce designs in agreed timescales to ensure regional targets are achieved.
- Utility designs
- Assisting in the production of all engineering drawings for start on site including infrastructure, foundations and any remediation proposals
- Building Regulation/CML issues
- Interact closely with design and planning team to deliver planning consents
- Working closely with the Architectural Team in order to satisfactory resolve engineering issues as part of planning applications
- Help to ensure compliance with Building Regulations and Statutory Authorities.
- Maintain documentation for the standard product portfolio.
- Preparation and co-ordination of Legal Conveyance Plans.
- Assistance in the preparation of Land Appraisal Viabilities
What experience do I need?
- Construction and the Built Environment’ or ‘Civil Engineering’ and have a keen interest in engineering design.
- Ideally undertaking/has undertaken a Construction Related Course such as
- Computer literate with a good knowledge of Excel and Word. Knowledge of AutoCAD would be ideal.
- Uses Own initiative.
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timescales.
- Ability to work in a team and as an individual.
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to visualise a problem and look to solve it.
- Attend Day Release College/University in order to obtain a Construction related HNC or Degree
- Must undertake continuous professional development.
- Must have A-C grades in Mathematics, English and Science.
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