Engineering Apprentice
CHAPMANBDSP LIMITED
London (EC3V 0BT)
Closes in 21 days (Thursday 17 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 26 June 2025
Contents
Summary
Reporting to senior level engineers, you are responsible for contributing to the delivery of projects in your team in accordance with the company’s standards and procedures. An understanding of our culture and core values is to be developed along with an awareness of the company business plan and objectives.
- Wage
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£23,000 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 September 2025
- Duration
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4 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
Role Overview
The role requires you to be a strong team player, have good communication skills and the ability to liaise effectively with all members of the internal design team to assist in the delivery of a project, by contributing to specific areas under the guidance of the senior engineering team
Main Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
• An understanding and experience in producing basic calculations both manually and computerised using the appropriate technical software applications.
• An awareness of British Standards, when to refer to these and where to find them.
• An awareness of the company’s standards and procedures.
• An awareness of Health & Safety in the construction industry and its purpose to gain CSCS Construction Operative skills card to allow site access.
• Accompanied site visits as and when appropriate to further understanding of design production.
• Maintain a well-documented project, including calculation files and project correspondence.
• Ability to understand a project’s programme.
• An understanding of the reading of drawings.
• Using specialist 3D software and other resources to design the systems required for the project.
• Develop an understanding of Low and Zero Carbon Technologies and their applicability.
• Ability to understand a project’s programme.
Where you'll work
40 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V 0BT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
Your training course
Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.
- Comply with current company policies and procedures.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.
- Produce a risk assessment.
- Produce a method statement.
- Plan work activities.
- Apply sustainable principles and techniques.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.
- Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
- Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.
- Minimise delays to planned work.
- Amend and replan work activities.
- Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.
- Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.
- Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.
- Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.
- Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Isolate building service engineering systems.
- Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.
- Replace components.
- Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.
- Handover completed maintenance activities.
- Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Provide internal feedback.
- Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.
- Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.
- Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.
- Repair components.
- Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.
- Comply with current company policies and procedures.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.
- Produce a risk assessment.
- Produce a method statement.
- Plan work activities.
- Apply sustainable principles and techniques.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.
- Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
- Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.
- Minimise delays to planned work.
- Amend and replan work activities.
- Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.
- Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.
- Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.
- Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.
- Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Isolate building service engineering systems.
- Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.
- Replace components.
- Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.
- Handover completed maintenance activities.
- Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Provide internal feedback.
- Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.
- Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.
- Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.
- Repair components.
Your training plan
Off-the-job training taking place at the London Institute of Technology on a weekly day-release basis
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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter indicating your interest and suitability for this vacancy to Andrew.Marriott@newham.ac.uk
About this company
Our team of engineers, architects, designers and analysts help clients realise smarter and more efficient solutions. Our core specialisms - mechanical, electrical, public health and sustainability - work seamlessly throughout the building structure to create places that fulfil their potential.
After this apprenticeship
Progression within the company to higher level apprenticeships is a possibility for the right candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
Andrew Marriott
andrew.marriott@newham.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328430.
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Closes in 21 days (Thursday 17 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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