Apprentice Facilities Technician

Summary

As a Facilities Technician Apprentice Oxford Instruments will enrol you onto a course that will develop your skills and experience within facilities, operations and maintenance. You will spend time in each of our Manufacturing Value Streams to understand more about the day-to-day activities on site.

Annual wage: £13,750 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Training course: Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Thursday, 08:00 - 16:30 and Friday, 08:00 - 13:00
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Tuesday 1 October
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

You will join the Facilities team and learn how to inspect, fault find, rectify problems and maintain plant and equipment to meet operational requirements
You will also learn how to comply with health, safety and environmental working practices and regulations
We are a diverse site with a manufacturing area for complex scientific instruments, office and catering facilities, as well as beautiful grounds that require maintenance
No two days will the same

Where you’ll work

Tubney Woods

Abingdon

Oxon

OX13 5QX

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

ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.

Comply with current company policies and procedures.

Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.

Produce a risk assessment.

Produce a method statement.

Plan work activities.

Apply sustainable principles and techniques.

Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.

Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.

Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.

Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.

Minimise delays to planned work.

Amend and replan work activities.

Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.

Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.

Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.

Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.

Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.

Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.

Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.

Isolate building service engineering systems.

Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.

Replace components.

Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.

Handover completed maintenance activities.

Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.

Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.

Provide internal feedback.

Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.

Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.

Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.

Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.

Repair components.

Your training plan

Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
Company Training Plan & Assessment
Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Building Services Engineering Technology and Project Management
Level 2 Functional Skills - maths (If required)
Level 2 Functional Skills - English (If required)
End Point Assessment at the end of the apprenticeship

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

A min of 5 GCSE's inc English, Science & Maths (grade 5-9/C-A*)

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
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Team working
Initiative
Patience
Physical fitness
Time Management
Interest in Engineering

Other requirements

We are based near Abingdon (Tubney Woods, OX13 5QX) with a bus stop on the Oxford-Wantage bus route at our front gate, or a short walk from the Oxford-Faringdon-Swindon route. A genuine interest in Building Services / Maintenance / Facilities and a can-do attitude to your work.

About this company

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. Our customers use our NanoScience ultra-low temperature and high magnetic field environments to go beyond what was once thought possible, whether that’s creating Nobel Prize winning materials or developing quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems.

https://nano.oxinst.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Oxford Instruments are investing in our facility as our site grows which will give you plenty of opportunity for involvement in project work and for additional responsibility as your career develops

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ENGINEERING TRUST TRAINING LIMITED

Sally Parr

s.parr@theengineeringtrust.org

07879128768

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000274717.

Apply now

Closes in 8 days (Monday 30 September)

When you apply, you’ll be asked to sign in with a GOV.UK One Login. You can create one at the same time as applying for this apprenticeship.

After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.

Cookies on Find an apprenticeship

Contents