Low Carbon Engineer Apprenticeship

Summary

Those that are selected to complete this apprenticeship will play a key role in encouraging and building the low carbon engineering industry with a particular and immediate focus on heat pump technology.

Wage

£20,999.68 a year

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25 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays Yearly salary increase whilst on the apprenticeship (depending on performance)

Training course

Low carbon heating technician (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5.00pm, Friday 8.30am to 3.30pm.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

3 years

Positions available

10

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

You will learn how to plan, install, service, commission, and maintain all aspects of a low carbon heating system. Customer service skills will be very important in the success of each stage, as well as being organised, tidy, and respectful. All of this will be further developed and supported by time spent working with and for Vaillant Group – whether that be in our service, training, product, or industrial areas or working with a selected partner/installer. You will also be placed with one of our installer partners to gain valuable work experience and attend Derby College.

Where you’ll work

Nottingham Road Belper
Derbyshire
DE56 1JT

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

DCG

Your training course

Low carbon heating technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
Decommission heating and hot water systems.
Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
Decommission heating and hot water systems.
Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.

Your training plan

Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade C/4 or above)
Maths (grade C/4 or above)
Science (grade C/4 or above)

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
Attention to detail
Problem solving skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Flexible and Adaptable
Dependable
Trustworthy
Positive attitude
Motivated
Enthusiastic

Other requirements

Candidates must be passionate about low-carbon solutions, have excellent attention to detail, have a grade 4 GCSE or equivalent in Maths, English, and Science, have basic practical skills, and be committed and keen to learn. This apprenticeship is of a physical nature, which involves manual handling of heavy equipment, working at heights and in confined spaces. Both uniforms and tools will be provided to successful candidates, as well as the costs for any regulated qualifications deemed necessary to be a successful low-carbon heating engineer. Based in one of our Derbyshire sites, the role may involve travel to other sites within the UK. They will be supervised by a fully trained, member of the team with appropriate security clearance and safeguarding checks.

About this company

Vaillant UK is proud to be part of the worldwide heating and hot water corporation Vaillant Group which has a presence in over 20 countries with national sales companies, and exports to more than 60 states. The Vaillant Group is an international family-owned company with a heritage of 150 years in providing customers with energy-saving and easy to operate solutions for heating, cooling and hot water. In its core business of heating technologies, the company is the second-largest European manufacturer in this sector. In addition, the Vaillant Group is also active in ventilation and air-conditioning technology markets. The company develops and manufactures its products and services at sites in the United Kingdom as well as Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey and China. The Vaillant Group has a growing focus on products and systems that use renewable energy. There is a growing demand for these products across Europe, and the focus of the Group in this area relates strongly to heat pumps, which utilise the heat from the earth or the ambient air, and solar thermal systems. The development of Hybrid systems which combine renewable energies with heating appliances to create highly efficient and intelligent systems, is also a key focus area for the business. As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of environment-friendly heating and air-conditioning technology, sustainability plays an integral role in the Vaillant Group’s activities. Home and world climate are inseparable and modern heating technology can today make an important contribution to achieving climate protection targets. In the UK alone, replacing an old heating system with a new high efficiency boiler can save more than 30 % of energy a year, and reduce CO2 emissions by a corresponding 30%. Sustainable heating is central to the Vaillant Group and its operation.

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Company benefits

Annual bonus up to £1500, dependent on company performance. Well-being programme. Pension scheme.

After this apprenticeship

Once the 3 year employment and training are complete, the successful candidates will have the skills required to start their own business or be prime candidates to work within our industry and contribute to the overall goal of reaching a decarbonised UK heating solution.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DCG

Isabelle Torrance

isabelle.torrance@derby-college.ac.uk

01332387420

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000313627.

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