Summary
This 5-year Building Services Design Engineer Apprenticeship will see you achieving a BSc or BEng building services degree without the fees. Through studying and on-the-job training, you’ll widen your skill set and gain all the experience you need to become a fully skilled professional.
Wage
£24,500 a year
The Salary will increase with completion of each year
Training course
Building services design engineer (degree) (level 6)
Hours
You may be required to work shifts, including evenings, weekends and night shifts. Shifts and days to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Wednesday 1 October
Duration
5 years
Positions available
5
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
* Our Level 6 apprenticeship in building services design will prepare you for a career in engineering design, installation, operation and maintenance of building services systems that support the national railway and its infrastructure.
* You will be embedded into a Building Services team that focusses on office buildings, train stations, depots and track side equipment. We cover a wide array of services, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, hot & cold water, electrical systems, fire detection & lighting, to name a few.
* We work from the early feasibility ideas stage all the way through to on-site commissioning and witness testing. This gives a vast appreciation of the design process and how you, as a designer, affect systems and infrastructure with your engineering decisions.
This apprenticeship offers a balance of academic learning and hands-on experience which will prepare you for a dynamic industry.
Where you’ll work
York
YO24 4EH
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
NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
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
This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* Any subject (grade 9-4)
* English Language (grade 9-4)
* Maths (grade 9-5)
* Science (grade 9-4)
A Level in:
* Mathematics (grade A - C)
* Physical Science (grade A - C)
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
* Organisation skills
* Team working
Other requirements
Apprenticeship will involve working outdoors, in all weathers and occasionally at night