Trainee Designer Engineer apprentice
TPT FIRE PROJECTS LTD
BASINGSTOKE (RG24 8PE)
Closes in 28 days (Wednesday 20 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 July 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a Trainee Sprinkler Designer to join our expanding design team. This is an excellent opportunity to begin or advance your career in fire protection system design with a company that is actively growing.
- Wage
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£20,000 a year
- Training course
- Engineering design technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- 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
You’ll be involved in designing commercial sprinkler systems across the UK, with a strong focus on London, Birmingham, and the Home Counties. Full training will be provided, including an introduction to current sprinkler standards and design software.
Your key responsibilities would be
- Plan and organise daily tasks and design work
- Produce compliant sprinkler designs using industry-standard software
- Work collaboratively within the team and support other departments as needed
- Demonstrate flexibility in working hours and patterns when required
- Make informed design decisions in accordance with sprinkler regulations
- Assist the Estimating team with pre-contract design support
- Ensure all work is completed to relevant British/European standards (BS EN 12845, etc.).
- Attend and carry out site surveys
- Support installation teams with design, inspection, and quality assurance during and after project delivery
- Professionally represent the company during client interactions
- Contribute ideas for process improvements and efficiency
Where you'll work
AVOCET HOUSE
AVIARY COURT
WADE ROAD
BASINGSTOKE
RG24 8PE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BASINGSTOKE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Training course
Engineering design technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
- Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
- Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
- Select materials and parts.
- Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
- Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
- Provide feedback on engineering designs.
- Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
- Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
- Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
- Read, interpret and establish design intent.
- Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
- Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
- Option 1. Produce general arrangements of electrical power.
- Option 1. Produce detailed drawings of electrical power components such as wires connection, voltage, capacity, main switches.
- Option 1. Identify cable types and application.
- Option 1. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce electrical power project deliverables such as output drawings and electrical designs.
- Option 2. Produce general arrangements of control and instrumentation designs.
- Option 2. Produce detailed drawings of control and instrumentation components such as cable numbers, wire colours, junction block numbers and panel identification.
- Option 2. Identify different cable types and appropriate application.
- Option 2. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce control and instrumentation project deliverables.
- Option 3. Produce general arrangements of mechanical designs.
- Option 3. Produce detailed drawings of mechanical components such as part dimensions, shape and manufacture.
- Option 3. Use digital tools such as CAD to produce mechanical project deliverables.
- Option 4. Produce general arrangements of piping design.
- Option 4. Produce detailed drawings of piping components such as pipework, ducts and fittings and including supports and skids.
- Option 4. Use digital tools such as CAD or Plant Design Management Systems to produce piping design project deliverables.
- Option 5. Produce general arrangements of structures showing multiple materials such as steel, concrete, masonry, timber.
- Option 5. Produce detailed drawings for multiple materials such as steel, concrete, timber or masonry.
- Option 5. Use digital tools such as CAD and BIM to produce structural project deliverables.
- Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Work in accordance with the design process, company management systems, policies and procedures.
- Review and interpret technical information and requirements from different sources such as specifications, engineering drawings, concepts, stakeholders.
- Identify and assess factors that affect designs such as materials, application, location, risk and environment.
- Select materials and parts.
- Propose and evaluate ideas for sustainable engineering concepts to solve engineering challenges.
- Develop solutions that can be manufactured or built, and proven, operated and maintained during their operational life and decommissioned or recycled at the end of their operational life.
- Provide feedback on engineering designs.
- Apply quality assurance procedures to engineering drawings or models, including own designs and those of peers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Produce written documents, schedules and reports.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Identify inaccuracies or discrepancies in drawings and specifications and propose solutions.
- Incorporate changes to an existing design as a result of any modifications made during the as-built implementation.
- Create concepts for system layouts and associated components.
- Read, interpret and establish design intent.
- Determine the correct tolerances for components of the design.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Perform simple calculations to use in design drawings.
- Use measuring techniques for reverse engineering.
Training schedule
Training will take place one day a week at Basingstoke College of Technology, and the remaining time at TPT Fire Projects Ltd
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 (C))
- maths (grade 4 (C))
- Science or technical subject (grade 4 (C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- MS Office
- AutoCAD/Revit
- Willingness to learn
- Reliable and Responsible
- Adaptability
- Time management
- Positive attitude
Other requirements
Driving licence would be advantageous
About this employer
At TPT Fire, we pride ourselves on being one of the UK's leading fire protection companies for both business and residential customers. As a dedicated, family-owned and operated fire protection and maintenance company, we have been keeping buildings safe from fires for over 30 years.
After this apprenticeship
- Further career path within engineering
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BASINGSTOKE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Business@bcot.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328342.
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