Summary
This apprenticeship will provide the candidate with the opportunity to train to become a building services engineer. This will enable the candidate to design building services within buildings and make them come to life. At the end of the apprenticeship the candidate will be a significant way along their chosen career path.
Annual wage
£12,480 to £22,308 a year
Training course
Building services design engineer (degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm with 1/2 hour lunch
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 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
Your training and education will enable you to design mechanical and electrical building services and to carry out dynamic modelling of buildings and their contained building services. You will be able to make informed engineering decisions and enable our clients to have faith and confidence in your abilities as a designer.
The candidate will carry out the following as part of their apprenticeship:
* Create Dynamic Simulation Models of building services systems
* Design mechanical services
* Size plant
* Design electrical services
* Provide detailed design calculations
* Attend client meetings
* Carry out surveys and condition reports
* Provide technical support to the engineering team already in place
As they progress they will enhance the training of other apprentices and more junior members of staff. Develop the ability to operate in an engineering technical team.
Where you’ll work
5 Palatine Square
Coppull Business Centre
Mill Lane
Coppull
WN7 4RZ
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 CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
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
Working towards a Level 6 Building services design engineer (degree) apprenticeship standard.
Training will be one day a week
Training location University of Central Lancashire Preston Campus
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* English (grade 4)
* Maths (grade 4)
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
* Initiative
Other requirements
An interview will be offered to successful applicants at the SPARK event. This event will be held on our Preston Campus on 27th March 2025. You must be registered for this event, with an approved application and be available to attend on this day. Click here for further details Please note places are limited at the event.