Technical Trainee Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Apprentice
Briggs & Forrester Group
Bristol (BS32 4QH)
Closes on Sunday 15 June 2025
Posted on 9 April 2025
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Summary
Ready to start your career in Construction. You’re in the right place. The Briggs and Forrester Technical Apprenticeship enables you to experience a variety of roles which include Design, BIM, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Engineering, Planning, Work Winning and Estimating, Commissioning and Procurement to name but a few.
- Wage
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£15,515 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday-Thursday 8.30am until 5pm with a 30 minute lunch break. Friday 8.30 until 4.00pm, with a 30 minute lunch break.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
If your keen to understand more about our industry and want to continue your education with one of the leading players in the Building Services arena, get in touch today.
Your day to day activities will include but are not limited to:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical and Electrical design
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Quantity surveying
- Planning
- Work winning and Estimating
- Procurement
During your Training you will spend time in each of the following departments which will assist you in developing and broadening your skill set as well as determining which career path you feel you would like to follow once your training has concluded:-
- Operations (site based)
- Design and BIM (office/site based)
- Commercial/quantity surveying (office/site based).
- Work winning and Estimating (office based)
- Planning (site/office based)
Our positions suit self-motivated and enthusiastic individuals who possess A minimum of five GCSEs at Grade 9/A* to 4/C, including Maths, English Language and ICT; 1 A Level, or 2 AS Levels (40 UCAS points), or an equivalent qualification such Level 3 BTEC National in a relevant Construction or Engineering subject, and are keen to continue with their education. We offer a variety of career paths and the company is structured so that those with talent and enthusiasm will get responsibility and the rewards to match. Many of our current management and fully qualified employees have progressed through our comprehensive training scheme and with the right attitude, the same rewards could be yours. We offer a good basic salary, a structured training programme which leads to a recognised qualification, a varied working environment and excellent career prospects. We are committed to developing young talent, and invest significantly into training each year. We are recognised within the construction industry for our training standards. The Briggs & Forrester Technical Trainee programme produces some of the industry’s best and brightest, who have been recognised with awards from WorldSkills, H&V News, BESA and The Worshipful Company of Plumbers.
Where you’ll work
Linden House
Almondsbury Business Centre
Bristol
BS32 4QH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BATH COLLEGE
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
You will attend College one day per week, term time only at our Somer Valley Campus in Radstock.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 2 other subjects (grade 4/C or above)
- English (grade 4/C or above)
- ICT (grade 4/C or above)
- Maths (grade 4/C or above)
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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
The Apprentice will be working between our Bristol office in Almondsbury, various sites and project sites in and around the Bristol area.
About this company
Information about your organisation Tell us about your organisation Briggs & Forrester has established itself as a leading player in the building services market and is one of the industry’s largest independent contractors. We have an annual turnover of over £220m. The group has been at the forefront of the building services industry for over 70 years and is totally committed to quality, service and innovation. We undertake projects across a wide variety of market sectors including commercial developments, luxury residential properties, hi-tech laboratories, engine production and testing facilities, retail and leisure developments, educational establishments and healthcare.
After this apprenticeship
After successful completion of the level 3 apprenticeship, there may be the opportunity for you to undertake the level 4 apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BATH COLLEGE
Laura Joy
laura.joy@bathcollege.ac.uk
01225328752
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314687.
Apply now
Closes on Sunday 15 June 2025
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