Building Services Engineering Apprenticeship

Summary

This apprenticeship will provide the candidate with the opportunity to train to become a building services engineer. This will enable the candidate to design building services within buildings and make them come to life. At the end of the apprenticeship the candidate will be a significant way along their chosen career path.

Annual wage: £12,480 to £22,308 a year
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Training course: Building services design engineer (degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm with 1/2 hour lunch
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 5 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

Your training and education will enable you to design mechanical and electrical building services and to carry out dynamic modelling of buildings and their contained building services. You will be able to make informed engineering decisions and enable our clients to have faith and confidence in your abilities as a designer.

The candidate will carry out the following as part of their apprenticeship:

Create Dynamic Simulation Models of building services systems
Design mechanical services
Size plant
Design electrical services
Provide detailed design calculations
Attend client meetings
Carry out surveys and condition reports
Provide technical support to the engineering team already in place

As they progress they will enhance the training of other apprentices and more junior members of staff. Develop the ability to operate in an engineering technical team.

Where you’ll work

5 Palatine Square

Coppull Business Centre

Mill Lane

Coppull

WN7 4RZ

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

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE

Your training course

Building services design engineer (degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Use a sound, evidence-based approach to problem solving to develop building services engineering design solutions which maintain and enhance the quality of the environment and community and meet client, financial and safety objectives. Examples included: Use feedback from previous projects, and in use data from operational buildings, and incorporate lessons learnt into building services designs and management systems with cost benefit analysis
Identify, review and select techniques, procedures and methods best suited to undertake the design of complex building services systems and components. Examples included: comparison and selection of methods for equipment sizing for power systems; assessing the suitability of computational fluid dynamics for understanding thermal and ventilation dynamic characteristics in complex scenarios
Promote the continuous improvement of the design of building services systems and components. This includes using market intelligence and best practice and participating in design reviews and evaluation. Examples include: maintaining awareness of technical developments in equipment such as chillers, boilers and generators; and good practice methods for system configurations and control. Participating in design critiques for the building services strategy at the concept design stage
Manage and apply safe systems of work including responsibility for own obligations for health, safety and welfare issues, assessing and controlling risk, working with health, safety and welfare legislation and best practice. Examples include: Undertaking hazard identification and risk assessment for building services systems involving electricity, gas, rotating plant, refrigerants, hot surfaces, testing and commissioning. Planning suitable access and facilities for operation and maintenance of mechanical and electrical equipment
Managing the planning, budgeting and organization of tasks, people and resources through the use of appropriate management systems, working to agreed quality standards, project programme and budget, within legal, contractual and statutory requirements. Examples include: Use employer's quality management system for stage-by-stage project delivery; assessing required person-hours for design, site visits, inspections and witnessing in relation to fees
Manage teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs. Examples include: Provide team briefings and guidance on interpretation and application of new energy regulations or employer/institutional design guidance on lighting design
Communicate effectively through reports, drawings, specifications, presentations and discussions with both technical and non-technical people. Examples include: Presenting building services design concepts and proposals to a client using diagrams, data in context and interactive discussions on the intended operational performance and user benefits
Carry out and record the continuing profession development needed to maintain and enhance knowledge and competence as a building services design engineer. Examples include: Learning and evidence records from project activities, such as mechanical/electrical systems design calculations; heating, cooling and power load assessments; lighting calculations; equipment capacities and selection; schematic and layout drawings for mechanical and electrical services; witness reports from commissioning; writing reports; and attendance at seminars, lectures and workshops

Your training plan

Working towards a Level 6 Building services design engineer (degree) apprenticeship standard.

Training will be one day a week
Training location University of Central Lancashire Preston Campus

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

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
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

An interview will be offered to successful applicants at the SPARK event. This event will be held on our Preston Campus on 27th March 2025. You must be registered for this event, with an approved application and be available to attend on this day. Click here for further details https://www.uclan.ac.uk/events/listing/spark. Please note places are limited at the event.

About this company

We are a small building services consultancy based in the Northwest of England and service the UK. We carry out a number of services from feasibility and technical advice through to fully detailed design and site monitoring of installations. The company is founded upon the principles of delivery and protecting our clients. These are our key drivers. By implementing philosophy based upon listening to what our clients want, designing to suit this we can ultimately deliver what our clients need and want. We cover all aspects of mechanical, electrical and public health engineering. We also provide designs which are sustainable and incorporate the latest technologies. As a company we strive to deliver advances in efficiency and technology. We do provide advice to a number of cutting edge manufacturers and venture capital companies. We are Chartered Building Services Engineers. We thrive on designing buildings that meet the needs of the people who live and work in them. Through collaboration we listen, we design, we deliver.

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

Company benefits

Pension, Healthcare 28 days holidays Christmas Shutdown

After this apprenticeship

The right candidate may move into a full-time role as a Building Services Engineer within the business.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE

ams@uclan.ac.uk

01772 895500

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000296427.

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Closes on Friday 28 February

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