Architectural Technician / Technologist

• 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 TimberTecs now!
  Part of the Benfield ATT Group, the UK’s leading timber frame structural design, manufacture, and build companies, TimberTecs offer key industry opportunities to committed architectural technicians/technologists.

Your Job
You will liaise with clients to obtain their requirements, produce drawings specifications & details before producing manufacturing and erection drawings + 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 TimberTecs architectural technician / technologist you will work on a wide range of projects, from the mundane to the exciting & exotic, from home extensions and self build houses, to developer and housing association schemes, schools, churches, health care, resort and hospitality buildings 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, floor and wall details to 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
... just over the Severn Bridge in South Wales. Here you will enjoy some of the most beautiful countryside in the British Isles. Set close to Newport, between Bristol & Cardiff, with easy

access to motorways and within 1½ - 2 hours of the Midlands, London, Exeter and Plymouth. (See map on line via ‘About us’ on our web site)
Your Skills & Qualifications.
You will have a good standard of drawing and hand-writing, computer & CAD skills. 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.
What Now?
Please complete and submit your application to:-
Human Resources Department
TimberTecs
Benfield ATT Group
Castle Way
Caldicot
Monmouthshire NP26 5PR