Building Maintenance Engineer Apprentice
HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES
London, EC3N 4AB
Closes on Wednesday 14 May 2025
Posted on 20 February 2025
Contents
Summary
We are recruiting for a Building Services Engineering Apprentice at HM Tower of London, giving you a fantastic opportunity to grow and develop your skills whilst working at this historical site.
- Wage
- £23,587.20 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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36 hours per week (4 year fixed term contract).
36 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 1 September
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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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’ll be part of a busy maintenance service team, providing assistance in respect to the upkeep and continuity to all aspects of the M&E systems, plant and equipment of the palaces. Support with rectifying faults, monitoring works, liaising with other internal departments and supporting a variety of administrative and technical engineering requirements.
Whilst studying towards your apprenticeship you will also be:
- Assisting in the assessment of M&E failures and faults.
- Supporting the M&E Contracts Manager in sourcing plant and equipment for M&E maintenance work.
- Liaising with contractors and obtaining quotations for repair works.
- Assisting with the provision and monitoring of the PPM programme.
- Assisting in the preparation of building service schedules.
- Categorising and updating M&E drawings and CAD plans.
- Supporting in the formulation of maintenance policy, health & safety and quality assurance.
- Carrying out general maintenance related administrative tasks.
- Familiarising, use and updating data/PPM’s to our maintenance software system.
- Supporting sustainability initiatives in respect of M&E systems.
- Liaising with internal departments and stakeholders.
- Undertaking any other relevant activities which fall under the general scope of this role as directed by the Line Manager.
Where you’ll work
The Tower Of London
Tower Hill
London
EC3N 4AB
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
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
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.
- 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
Requirements
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
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
We are looking for someone who is keen to learn and has good attention to details, strong computer skills (use of CAD would be desirable) You will also need good communication skills and the ability to manage your time and workload.
About this company
Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) is a team of people who love and look after six of the most wonderful palaces in the world. We create space for spirits to stir and be stirred.
After this apprenticeship
- Building Services Engineer
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000305170.
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Closes on Wednesday 14 May 2025
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