Trainee Building Services Manager Apprenticeship

Summary

At McLaughlin & Harvey you will have the opportunity to train as a Trainee Building Services Manager. From day one, you will receive the best mentored, relevant and practical experience on site, tailored to suit your chosen career. You'll support the Building Services Manager in taking pro-active steps to ensure technical and statutory compliance.

Wage: £15,704 to £25,396.80 a year
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Training course: Building services design engineer (degree) (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 7.30am to 5pm
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 8 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

During the development period the role of Trainee Building Services Manager will assist the Building Services Managers (BSM’s) and carry out the following duties:

Assist the BSM’s to ensure all Building services needs are met, reflected in the building and fabric with information delivered in good time.
Support the BSM team to manage the Design, Drawings and approvals process in line with programme.
Assist Planning teams in making sure building services are fully integrated into the delivery programme and execution plans.
Support Site management and Health and safety teams with review of method statements and safe systems of work.
Monitor progress against targets and assisting the project management team with making sure specialist contractors resource and approach the project as needed.
Attend client progress meetings where appropriate.
Assist with all document control relating to drawings and specifications, including maintaining up to date registers, and ensuring that such documents are timeously issued to all persons, parties and subcontractors, liaising with the Document Control team.
Support the line manager in monitoring quality specification compliance is achieved first time.
Build Health & Safety awareness to eliminate health and safety risks in the design and financial risks during construction.

Where you’ll work

2530 The Quadrant

Aztec West, Almondsbury

Bristol

BS32 4AQ

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 THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL

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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C)
Mathematics (grade C)

A Level in:

Mathematics (grade C)

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

Biology; Chemistry; Computing/Computer Science (grade Pass)
Design and Technology; Electronics; Engineering (grade Pass)
Further Mathematics; Music Technology; Physics (grade Pass)
ICT, Statistics (grade Pass)

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
Number skills
Team working
Initiative

About this company

McLaughlin & Harvey is a privately owned company with over 170 years of experience, specialising in construction and civil engineering. Founded in 1853 and now operating throughout the UK and Ireland, the company employs over 800 people and has office locations in Belfast, Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Bristol. The company delivers construction, civil engineering and fit-out projects and provides facilities management services to various sectors including healthcare, education, defence, industrial, retail, sports venues, transport infrastructure, environmental, marine, commercial, residential and leisure.

https://www.mclh.co.uk/careers/job-opportunities/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Graduate Building Services Manager

Building Services Manager

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