- If you don't want to spend all your time behind a drawing board or computer,
- If you would like to be involved with new designs for houses, schools, resorts, health care, leisure facilities and more
- If you have a yen to tackle more practical tasks, like discussing client requirements, sketching suggested ideas, specifying materials, and obtaining approvals.
- If your career plans embrace environmental sustainability and ecological design
- If you could be passionate about timber as a wonderful structural material
- If serving the community would give you extra job satisfaction
...then contact Benfield ATT now!
Recognised as one of the UK's leading timber frame structural design, manufacture, and build companies, Benfield ATT are offering key industry job opportunities to committed architectural technicians and technologists.
Your Job
You will liaise with clients to obtain their requirements and produce drawings specifications and details before producing manufacturing and erection drawings and materials schedules in accordance with CDM requirements. Before work starts, you will brief panel makers, erection teams, and site service logistics personnel to make sure everything on your project runs smoothly. Directly, or via outworkers, you will obtain or verify approvals from local authorities and government departments. Once work has started you will deal with site queries, interim payments and certificates.
Job Scope
As a Benfield ATT architectural technician / technologist you will work on a wide range of projects, from the mundane to the exciting and exotic, from home extensions and self build houses, to developer and housing association schemes, schools, churches, health care, resort and hospitality buildings , both in the UK and overseas. After successfully 'earning your spurs' you can look forward to being promoted to a senior technical positions which may include responsibility for supervising staff.
Knowledge Development
Keeping abreast of regulatory changes and material developments, you will help to keep the company at the forefront of environmentally sustainable building structures, ensuring through surveys that these are properly designed for their sites, checking roof, wall, and wall details deliver performance in advance of current requirements and recommendations.
Your Tools .
Using computers with CAD software, drawing instruments, levels and calculators. You will work a basic 40 hour week but sometimes need to put in extra time to satisfy project demands and client needs. You will be responsible for designing buildings from the roof down, including roof trusses, walls, joist frames and floors. But don't worry about this because training will be given. .
Your Performance
If you enjoy working with structural designs, have an eye for detail, a good 3D mind, a positive attitude to career advancement, the aptitude to learn fast, and the ability to deliver accurate work to agreed performance standards, then this exciting opportunity could be for you.
Your Place of Work
Working from our UK Headquarters, just over the Severn Bridge in South Wales, you will enjoy some of the most beautiful countryside in the British Isles. Set close to Newport, between Bristol and Cardiff, you will have easy access to the motorway network and be within 1-2 hours of the Midlands, London, Exeter and Plymouth (click here for map).
Here, you will meet some interesting people, clients, staff and collaborating professionals and occasionally visit very interesting buildings and sites.
Your Skills & Qualifications.
You will, of course, have a good standard of drawing and hand-writing, as well as computer skills, computer aided design (CAD). Since we normally work in conjunction with clients and other professions, good communication skills are necessary as is the ability to work in a team, often under pressure.
While a formal route to becoming an Architectural Technician / Technologist with Benfield ATT is not essential, you are likely to have:-
- GCSEs.- probably at least four GCSEs/S grades (AC/ 1-3).
- Work experience.
- On-the-job training.
- ONC in Building Studies.
- HNC in Building Studies.
or the equivalent, and be familiar with building regulations and construction principles.
You'll also need to be willing to learn from others in a supportive, training and development orientated organisation.
Benfield ATT
are an equal opportunities, training and development orientated, Investors in People certified organisation.
What Now?
If you feel this major career opening could be right for you, please complete and submit the on-line application form, now to:-
Human Resources Department
Benfield ATT.
Castle Way
Caldicot
Monmouthshire NP26 5PR
To be considered for these role/s, please Click Here to download an application form. Then include a CV together with an outline of:-
a) why you consider yourself suited for the post
b) what you think might be entailed in the work
c) how your experience to date fits the job profile / requirement to...
Personnel Department
Benfield ATT Ltd
Castle Way
Caldicot
Monmouthshire
NP26 5PR
Tel: 01291 437065
