Apprentice Air Conditioning Engineer
J Fletcher (Engineers) Ltd
Eccles (M30 0SF)
Closes in 6 days (Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 23 July 2025
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Summary
Fletcher Engineering is a dynamic, family-run engineering firm based in Manchester, serving clients nationwide. We are currently seeking a motivated Apprentice to support one of our Commercial Maintenance Mobile Air Conditioning Engineer and strengthen our service team.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 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
Job Role & Responsibilities:
- Responding to service calls on a UK wide basis
- Test, service and repair a wide variety of equipment
- Fault Finding
- Offering advice and technical support to customers
- Reporting directly to the Technical Service Manager
- Air Conditioning Engineer Required Skills & Experience
- NVQ Level's 2 & 3 or equivalent
- F Gas Cat 1
- Electrical experience preferable
- Must have installation skills
- Working with a range of systems split type units to VRV/VRF to water chillers
- Good communication skills
- Motivated to work on industry leading equipment
Where you'll work
James Nasmyth Way
Nasmyth Business Park
Patricroft
Eccles
M30 0SF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TOTAL PEOPLE LIMITED
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.
Training schedule
- Refrigeration Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Engineering Technician Level 3
- Day release at Total People's Wythenshawe Campus (M22 9UH)
- Access to an electronic portfolio
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Mathematics (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Logical
- Number skills
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
Other requirements
In return, and upon completion of your apprenticeship, J Fletcher offer a competitive basic salary (dependent on experience) as well as the following: * 40 hours per week with overtime available * Company vehicle (full-licence) and mobile phone/tablet * 23 days holiday plus bank holidays * Door to Door * Attendance bonus for contracted hours @ £0.80p per hour
About this employer
HVAC
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, and subject to progress as an employee, the job role could lead onto a Refrigeration Engineer post - the company is growing rapidly
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TOTAL PEOPLE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000330694.
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Closes in 6 days (Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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