Building Services Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

Help provide our customers with a bright, clean, functional and welcoming environment that is safe and accessible. You’ll help us retain and develop the in-house knowledge of Electrical & Mechanical assets, upgrade our legacy assets to become safer, more reliable, automated and energy efficient.

Wage: £29,281 a year
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Training course: Building services design engineer (degree) (level 6)
Hours: The role will be based in London.  Hybrid working (typically working from home no more than 50% of the time) will be the default arrangement going forward, although some courses and placements will require full-time attendance. TBC.
35 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 8 September
Duration: 6 years
Positions available: 4

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

Become familiar with the development of technical scopes, design preparation and installation/commissioning support for small scale local infrastructure performance renewals on London Underground stations & associated infrastructure.
Support the development of technical scopes for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) infrastructure
Support in the supervision of external design and installation
Commissioning support for medium scale performance improvements on the DLR system.
Preparing designs and installing or commissioning support for medium scale infrastructure performance enhancements.
Gain experience improving e.g. new station ticket halls, upgraded retail provisions in stations, substation ventilation and mid tunnel ventilation fans.
Understand the technical scopes development and preparation of designs for a varying range of commercial development projects, in particular provision of retail units across the TfL estate.
Design preparation and installation of TfL’s street and road lighting infrastructure, focusing on performance improvements.
Assist in the preparation of technical work scopes or designs for major tube line capacity upgrade works.

Where you’ll work

197 Blackfriars Road

London

SE1 8JZ

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

LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY

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

The qualification you will earn is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English Language (grade 4 (C))
Maths (grade 4 (C))

A Level in:

Any (grade B (or equivalent))
Any (grade B (or equivalent))
Maths (grade C (or equivalent))

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

Open
Caring
Adaptable

Other requirements

https://tfl.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=047054

About this company

At TfL, our work goes beyond transport. We keep London moving – day in, day out. We’re about building stronger connections, and helping people do more of what they love. From sustainable futures to post-pandemic economic recovery, we’re constantly breaking new ground, and taking innovation to new heights. For our people, this is more than just a job. Our apprentices are pioneers, frontrunners, and mentors. And, with a culture built on support and flexibility that puts wellbeing first.

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Company benefits

Free travel on the TfL network for you and a nominee who lives in the same household. Discounted national rail and Eurostar travel  . Minimum 29 days annual leave (pro rata dependent on role) plus public and bank holidays and more!

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

Upon successful completion of this scheme, you could roll-off into a Junior Engineer position in one of our E&M sub-teams. From here, you could have the opportunity to continue developing into one of our resident technical discipline experts, an experienced Senior Project Engineer or even a Senior Leader. The current Technical Director of Engineering and the Chief Capital Officer for TfL both started their careers as apprentices demonstrating that our apprentices can aspire to senior leadership positions or anything else in between.

The qualification you will earn is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY

earlycareerscampaigns@tfl.gov.uk

0203 005 1680

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000303598.

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