Level 6 Building Services Design Engineer Apprenticeship
OR CONSULTING ENGINEERS LTD
LONDON (SW9 0LS)
Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
Posted on 16 April 2025
Contents
Summary
OR Consulting is a multi-award-winning building services consultancy that specialises in developing tailored designs for a wide range of commercial buildings. We are a friendly, supportive team with 17 employees located within Central London. We are looking for a highly motivated Building Services apprentice to be part of our engineering team.
- Wage
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£25,000 a year
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A competitive salary and employee benefits package.
- Training course
- Building services engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday between 9am to 5.30pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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6 years 6 months
- Positions available
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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
What we will offer you:
- A structured degree apprenticeship program with support from experienced mentors.
- A blend of academic study and practical, on-the-job training.
- Opportunities to work on live projects with exposure to cutting-edge technology.
- A competitive salary and employee benefits package.
- Potential for the right candidate for clear path of career progression within the company upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
What you’ll do at work
- Work within a team of engineers to learn the principles of building services design in a live environment.
- Be involved in the design of services including electrical, mechanical, acoustics and lighting to deliver buildings which meet the needs of the people that use them.
- Work on a variety of building projects, enabling you to gain experience across multiple sectors. The buildings can range from new builds to historic premises within sectors such as commercial, residential, hospitality, cultural, education and leisure.
- Use engineering software to develop drawings and models in 2D and 3D.
- Develop best-practice, sustainable principles, digital skills and working knowledge of industry legislation and guidance through your learning and experience.
- Communication and coordination of information with the design team and other disciplines outside the office.
- Attend site visits for building surveys and construction site inspections alongside our engineers.
Where you’ll work
64 OFFLEY ROAD
LONDON
SW9 0LS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
Your training course
Building services engineer (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
- Apply engineering principles to solve broadly defined engineering problems and contribute to continuous improvement: scientific, theoretical, and technical principles.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate the results, including when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems or improving the performance of building services engineering components and systems.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret, and compare information in relation to materials, components or parts used in building services engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate building services engineering problems.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model building services engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of building services engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of building services engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against building services engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, Identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
- Apply engineering principles to solve broadly defined engineering problems and contribute to continuous improvement: scientific, theoretical, and technical principles.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate the results, including when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems or improving the performance of building services engineering components and systems.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret, and compare information in relation to materials, components or parts used in building services engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate building services engineering problems.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model building services engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of building services engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of building services engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against building services engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, Identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
Your training plan
The Apprenticeship training will be completed at London South
Bank University, Southwark Campus. You will attend university 1 day per week during term time.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English Language (grade 4-9/A*-C)
- Maths (grade 4-9/A*-C)
A Level in:
- ANY (grade BC)
- Maths (grade B)
BTEC in:
- Extended Diploma in an Engineering subject area (grade DDM)
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
- Passion for Building Services
- Desire to learn
- Punctual and reliable
- Committed to development
About this company
OR Consulting is a creative and responsive alternative to larger practices. Our design specialisms are delivered within our project teams, not by a team of individual specialists. We collaborate closely with our clients and project partners to deliver solutions that are the best they can be. We are committed to developing and encouraging well rounded and creative engineers and we employ tools from simple sketching to advanced 3D modelling techniques to inform, communicate and co-ordinate our ideas with others. We have a culture of rigorous internal review to ensure our strategies are efficient, safe and maintainable and that our procurement documents “buy” our designs effectively across all packages. Our projects are developed from inception to operation and we seek to continually learn and improve our process by monitoring our completed projects.
After this apprenticeship
The apprentice will be offered a full time contract at the company on completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
Apprenticeship Team
apprenticeships@lsbu.ac.uk
020 7815 5767
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315911.
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Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
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