Building Services Engineering Apprentice
St George's University Hospitals NHS Trust
London (SW17 0QT)
Closes in 15 days (Sunday 27 July 2025)
Posted on 11 July 2025
Contents
Summary
Kickstart your career in engineering with St George’s NHS Trust! Join our Building Services Engineering Apprenticeship and gain hands-on experience maintaining vital hospital systems, all while earning and learning with expert support. Make a difference every day.
- Wage
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£29,583 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 37.5 Hours Per week. Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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5 years 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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
Key Responsibilities:
Technical Training and Competency Development
- Assist in planned and reactive maintenance of mechanical and electrical building services, ensuring operational efficiency.
- Support installation, commissioning, and fault-finding activities on systems including:
o Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
o Low-pressure hot water (LPHW) systems
o Electrical distribution, lighting, and power systems
o Drainage, plumbing, and water safety management (Legionella control)
o Fire detection, suppression, and life safety systems
o BMS (Building Management Systems) and energy control measures
- Conduct plant room and equipment inspections, recording meter readings and system data.
- Use hand tools, power tools, and diagnostic equipment for fault-finding and maintenance tasks.
- Work alongside experienced engineers to complete repairs, servicing, and testing of essential building systems.
Compliance and Health & Safety
- Adhere to all health and safety regulations, including risk assessments, method statements, and safe working procedures.
- Undertake training in areas such as fire safety, water safety (Legionella control), PUWER (Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations), and COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health).
- Ensure compliance with building regulations, sustainability standards, and industry best practices.
- Work in potentially hazardous environments, such as plant rooms, boiler houses, and electrical switch rooms, while maintaining a high standard of safety awareness.
Operational Support
- Assist in energy management initiatives, including data collection for sustainability reporting and carbon reduction.
- Work collaboratively with maintenance teams, facilities staff, and external contractors to ensure seamless operations.
- Shadow experienced technicians to develop hands-on expertise across multiple trades and systems.
- Engage in project work, including refurbishments, system upgrades, and asset lifecycle management.
- Support emergency maintenance and participate in on-call rotas where required. Personal and Professional Development
- Attend and complete HND Building Services Engineering at South Bank University (day release format).
- Participate in structured learning sessions, workshops, and site visits to enhance technical knowledge.
- Undertake manufacturer-specific training on key plant and equipment.
- Develop problem-solving and critical-thinking skills through real-world engineering challenges.
- Build effective communication and teamwork skills in a professional engineering environment.
Where you'll work
Blackshaw Road
London
SW17 0QT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
Your training course
Building services engineer (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply engineering principles to solve broadly defined engineering problems and contribute to continuous improvement: scientific, theoretical, and technical principles.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate the results, including when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems or improving the performance of building services engineering components and systems.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret, and compare information in relation to materials, components or parts used in building services engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate building services engineering problems.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model building services engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of building services engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of building services engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against building services engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, Identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
- Apply engineering principles to solve broadly defined engineering problems and contribute to continuous improvement: scientific, theoretical, and technical principles.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate the results, including when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems or improving the performance of building services engineering components and systems.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret, and compare information in relation to materials, components or parts used in building services engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate building services engineering problems.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model building services engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of building services engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of building services engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against building services engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, Identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
Your training plan
Part time day release: apprentices attend university once a week for two semesters. Semester 1 runs from September to January and Semester 2 from January to June.
More training information
The Building Services Design Engineering Apprenticeship includes a degree qualification in Building Services Engineering BEng (Hons) and a qualification leading towards Incorporated Engineer status.
Did you know that more than half the graduates working in the building services engineering field in the UK have been educated at LSBU? With more than 70 years of expertise, our course will equip you with the technical and managerial know-how to be an effective leader in this specialist sector.
Building services engineering covers the design, installation, operation and maintenance of all the things that make a building safe, comfortable, energy efficient and functional. It’s always in demand and set to grow as buildings’ designs evolve to become more sustainable.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4 or the equivalent)
- Maths (grade Grade 4 or the equivalent)
A Level in:
Must include Mathematics and preferably a Science (grade BBC)Desirable qualifications
BTEC in:
in an Engineering Mathematics and Further Matha (grade DDM)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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Creative
About this company
St George’s is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals. As part of our Estates & Facilities team, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the Trust’s buildings and infrastructure operate safely and efficiently. We will provide PPE, toolkits, mentoring, and structured training to help you grow. You’ll be part of a supportive team committed to developing future engineering talent while upholding our Trust values: Excellent, Kind, Responsible, and Respectful. After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Discussed during interview.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
St George's University Hospitals NHS Trust
Harry Dosanjh
Harry.dosanjh@stgeorges.nhs.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331275.
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Closes in 15 days (Sunday 27 July 2025)
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