Building Services Engineer Service and Maintenance Apprentice - Hard Services
NEWSPRINTERS HOLDINGS LIMITED
Prescot (L34 9HN)
Closes in 20 days (Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 15 July 2025
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Summary
The Hard Services Apprentice will maintain and repair our print sites' physical infrastructure, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing systems, building and fabric, essentially handling the "hard" aspects of facilities management, fixing and maintaining heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, pumps, and water management.
- 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, times to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 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
The Hard Services Apprentice will:
- Maintain and repair our print sites' physical infrastructure, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing systems, building and fabric
- You will be trained to be able to fix and maintain heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, pumps, water management and testing
- Maintain the building infrastructure
- You will learn these skills through practical on-the-job training under the guidance of experienced technicians while also completing relevant academic coursework
Where you'll work
Kitling Road
Knowsley Business Park
Prescot
L34 9HN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SALFORD CITY COLLEGE
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
You will attend day release at City Skills College (M6 6AP, Salford) and some block releases.
More training information
Apprenticeships at Salford City College are an award-winning, leading training provider in Greater Manchester, operating across the North West. We have been offering outstanding apprenticeship provision for over 10 years.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/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
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
About this company
Newsprinters’ vision is to work collaboratively with publishers for mutual sustainability and benefit. Our modular service allows our customers to choose from a range of services, from print and logistics to ancillary circulation services. With continued investment in our plants, Newsprinters offers our customers the most technologically advanced, national printing operation in the UK. Our customers look for quality, reliability and an end-to-end solution that ensures a cost-effective robust route to market. Our 19 triple width Manroland full colour presses offer our national, regional, trade and magazine printing clients a wide suite of off-the-shelf print innovation options.
https://newsprinters.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Discounted gym membership. Bikes for Work/Electric Car scheme. Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio and counselling. Generous pension scheme - emp contributions of up to 5%. 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days.
After this apprenticeship
Great opportunity to work with Newsprinter’s Holdings to learn and develop skills. This role is part of the current succession plan within the Hard Services Team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SALFORD CITY COLLEGE
Sarah Allen
sarah.allen@salfordcc.ac.uk
01616315555
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331599.
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Closes in 20 days (Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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