Trainee Engineer (Electrical) Apprenticeship

Summary

Kickstart your career in building services engineering with us as a Trainee Engineer (Electrical)! Working on impactful projects in clean energy, healthcare, life sciences, and infrastructure, you'll contribute to energy-efficient solutions and support projects using advanced technologies and engineering methods. Apply today!

Wage: Competitive
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Training course: Building services engineering senior technician (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5.00pm, with one hour for a lunch break.
36 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 3 years
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Below are some of the activities you will be involved in:

Learn how to plan and undertake the project workload and allocate specific tasks to other appointed individual personnel associated with the project in conjunction with directions from the Project Leadership team
Assist in ensuring the projects are operating in and efficient and profitable manner
Understand the preparation of operational project programmes in line with main project programme and identify labour and material procurement deadlines
Undertake the required tasks to ensure identified deadlines are met and monitor on a daily or weekly basis as appropriate
Learn how to prepare major material and master material procurement schedules and identify and check proposed procurement dates are in line with the appropriate programme dates, ensure materials and equipment are available on site at the prescribed time
Understand how estimates are created and packaged up at tender stage. To be able to create sub contract packages from this and compare responses back to the tender position, identifying any change or gaps in scope
Arrange and attend sub-contract reviews, meetings and appointments and liaise with project surveyor as necessary
Gain knowledge of reviewing and interpreting proposed designs, drawings, and specifications to ensure compliance with our obligations and appropriateness to the required function and recognised standards
Develop a deep knowledge of health and safety, making sure others and yourself go home safely everyday
Learn how to interpret technical information in specifications, appropriate standards and regulations

Where you’ll work

1 The Parklands
Lostock
Bolton
BL6 4SD

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

LEEDS COLLEGE OF BUILDING

Your training course

Building services engineering senior technician (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Apply engineering principles, using relevant scientific, theoretical and technical know-how to solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review the results, when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems.
Employ a range of advanced mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods to interpret and solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
Interpret and compare performance information to choose compliant materials, components or parts.
Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address well-defined building services engineering problems.
Produce and interpret building services engineering technical drawings, designs, and models, using analytical and computer-based software packages, recognising the limitations of the software used.
Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
Comply with, and encourage others to demonstrate, statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation.
Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks.
Apply principles of sustainable development, and assess the impact of these in their work.
Employ project management techniques, measuring and recording progress against building services engineering project plans.
Assess and report on quality using appropriate management and assurance systems and continuous improvement processes.
Identify and use resources, equipment and technology to meet project requirements, including specifications, budget and timescales.
Monitor and manage individual performance, and supervise others, recognising the need to comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) requirements.
Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, using appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information.
Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance.
Apply engineering principles, using relevant scientific, theoretical and technical know-how to solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review the results, when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems.
Employ a range of advanced mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods to interpret and solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
Interpret and compare performance information to choose compliant materials, components or parts.
Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address well-defined building services engineering problems.
Produce and interpret building services engineering technical drawings, designs, and models, using analytical and computer-based software packages, recognising the limitations of the software used.
Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
Comply with, and encourage others to demonstrate, statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation.
Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks.
Apply principles of sustainable development, and assess the impact of these in their work.
Employ project management techniques, measuring and recording progress against building services engineering project plans.
Assess and report on quality using appropriate management and assurance systems and continuous improvement processes.
Identify and use resources, equipment and technology to meet project requirements, including specifications, budget and timescales.
Monitor and manage individual performance, and supervise others, recognising the need to comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) requirements.
Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, using appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information.
Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance.

Your training plan

Block release learning at Leeds College of Building (1 week attendance every 5 weeks)
Regular progress reviews to discuss expected progress v actual progress/interventions/additional support

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Five GCSEs including Maths, English and Science (grade 4/C or above)

Other in:

in a relevant subject (grade Level 3)

Desirable qualifications

BTEC in:

Building Services Engineering (grade Level 3)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Works well under pressure

Other requirements

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

About this company

Dalkia Engineering deliver mechanical and electrical technical solutions across the UK’s built environment from initial design to project completion. Harnessing a value-engineering approach across our projects, we optimise your environment to deliver cost savings and carbon efficiency.

https://www.dalkia.co.uk (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a market-leading company pension scheme, 26 days paid holiday rising after service to 28 and a range of flexible benefits such as health cover, cycle to work scheme and a flexi holiday purchase scheme.

After this apprenticeship

Ongoing employment
Further learning and development opportunities and continuous growth within the engineering function

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DALKIA ENGINEERING LIMITED

Dalkia Engineering Limited

recruitment.deng@dalkia.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000307434.

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Closes in 25 days (Monday 31 March at 11:59pm)

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