Apprentice Chiller Engineer - Hatfield
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC EUROPE B.V.
Hatfield (AL10 8XB)
Closes in 22 days (Saturday 14 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 22 May 2025
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Summary
This role sits within CLCS, a product group of LES, a business division within MEU-UK. The role supports commercial product sales which covers a very broad range of customers, from large corporate commercial sites, production facilities, data centres to small offices.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
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First year salary will be £18-22k, depending on previous experience. Second year salary, dependent on hitting academic and performance milestones, will increase up to £25k. And then up to £30k for the third year. There will be a bonus payable of 7.5%
- Training course
- Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Shift Patterns; per week 37.5 hours ‘on the tools’ and we expect 7.5 hours travel time to/from jobs; before we allow field-based engineer colleagues to claim travel or overtime. These are weekly figures. So 45 hour week before travel can be claimed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 18 August 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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1
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
- To gain practical knowledge and experience through working alongside our qualified engineers
- Conducting Planned Preventative Maintenance
- Responding to breakdown calls
- Carrying out minor repairs and equipment upgrades
- Actively support initiative to reduce the number of customer Call Back Service requests through improvements in equipment reliability
- Support improvement and efficiency initiatives for the service department and wider organisation
- Complete all site visit reports in a timely manner
- Any other reasonable duties as instructed by the Service Operations team
Where you'll work
Travellers Lane
Hatfield
AL10 8XB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Your training course
Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety, regulations and standards. Apply safe systems of work, including carrying out a risk assessment.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and standards for example prevention of refrigerant emissions, segregate resources for reuse and, recycling and disposal of waste.
- Position, fix, joint and test, pipework and electrical circuits.
- Test, charge with refrigerant and commission vapour compression systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Interpret information and data from log books and diagrams.
- perform servicing, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on vapour compression systems including routine and reactive maintenance, installation of components and safe electrical isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to vapour compression systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission vapour compression systems, safe recovery and disposal of equipment, hazardous waste refrigerant transfer.
- Decommission electrical and electronic systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Adjust vapour compression system operating parameters to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
- Maximise performance of vapour compression systems by determining heating and cooling loads and selecting and balancing components and systems.
- Retrofit and retro fill existing equipment to lower GWP refrigerants.
- Mitigate risks of refrigerants including environmental, toxicity and flammability hazards.
- Identify and use tools and equipment.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Complete a customer handover.
- Work collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
- Apply project leadership techniques and principles.
- Use information and digital technology and comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Comply with health and safety, regulations and standards. Apply safe systems of work, including carrying out a risk assessment.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and standards for example prevention of refrigerant emissions, segregate resources for reuse and, recycling and disposal of waste.
- Position, fix, joint and test, pipework and electrical circuits.
- Test, charge with refrigerant and commission vapour compression systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Interpret information and data from log books and diagrams.
- perform servicing, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on vapour compression systems including routine and reactive maintenance, installation of components and safe electrical isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to vapour compression systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission vapour compression systems, safe recovery and disposal of equipment, hazardous waste refrigerant transfer.
- Decommission electrical and electronic systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Adjust vapour compression system operating parameters to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
- Maximise performance of vapour compression systems by determining heating and cooling loads and selecting and balancing components and systems.
- Retrofit and retro fill existing equipment to lower GWP refrigerants.
- Mitigate risks of refrigerants including environmental, toxicity and flammability hazards.
- Identify and use tools and equipment.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Complete a customer handover.
- Work collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
- Apply project leadership techniques and principles.
- Use information and digital technology and comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations.
- Apply ethical principles.
Your training plan
- Attend College, study and qualify with the following qualifications:
Refrigeration Air Conditioning & Heat Pump Engineering Technician
City & Guilds 6090-30 & F-Gas 2079 (Cat1) - This programme is delivered via a block release delivery model, your attendance is required at our Construction Campus (NG17). This attendance is required during term time only
- You will work with expert assessors and tutors to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours within the profession
- You will experience a blended learning model
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
- Science (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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Driving Licence is essential and 18+ - due to insurance purposes.
About this company
Mitsubishi Electric has introduced high quality products and innovative technologies into the UK for more than 35 years. Throughout this time, we have maintained a firm reputation for reliability, powerful solutions and quality service, meeting the needs of today's commercial and industrial markets
After this apprenticeship
- The role is mobile field based and is critical to the smooth operation of the service team - Opportunities of further training and career progression
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Leoni
apprenticeships@wnc.ac.uk
01623 900469
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322361.
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Closes in 22 days (Saturday 14 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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