Low Carbon Heating Technician L3 Apprenticeship
VITAL ENERGI UTILITIES LIMITED
Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Northampton
Closes in 13 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 July 2025
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Summary
Are you ready to shape the future of sustainable energy and gain valuable skills and qualifications? We’re offering a unique opportunity to join our team as an Apprentice Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Technician, playing a key role in delivering and maintaining low-carbon heating and hot water systems across a range of national/regionalised sites.
- Wage
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£16,500 a year
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Wage will increase to £17,250 on successful completion of 6-month probation.
- Training course
- Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 08.00 – 17.00 with 1 hour for lunch.
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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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
Vital Energi regards our people as the most important part of our business. You'll be joining a company responsible for some of the most exciting energy projects in the UK delivering O&M Services, and your work will make a meaningful contribution to the UK meeting its Net Zero targets and maintaining the assets achieving this.
As an Apprentice O&M Technician, you’ll get hands-on experience working on assets delivering O&M services on live sites, whilst studying towards a nationally recognised qualification. Your day-to-day tasks will include:
- Undertake planned preventative and reactive maintenance in accordance with Site Procedures
- Operate and maintain plant and equipment in a safe & controlled manner
- Preparing, installing, testing, and commissioning systems
- Performing routine service and maintenance
- Diagnosing and rectifying faults and if necessary, carrying out safe isolation procedures
- Decommission heating and hot water systems
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems
- Communicate at all levels, through different means of communication platforms (verbal and in writing)
- Works collaboratively with colleagues, clients or stakeholders to solve problems
This is a physically demanding role that involves manual handling and may involve lifting heavy equipment, working at height, and in confined spaces. You’ll need to work both independently and as part of a close-knit team, liaising with site supervisors, colleagues and clients.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Unit 1, Brunel Lock Development, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6SE
- Central Library, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3AB
- St. Johns Beacon, 1 Houghton Street, Liverpool, L1 1RL
- The Exchange, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4AH
- The Guildhall, St. Giles Square, Northampton, NN1 1DE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BOLTON COLLEGE
Training course
Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
- Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
- Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
- Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
- Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission heating and hot water systems.
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
- Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
- Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
- Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
- Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
- Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
- Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission heating and hot water systems.
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
- Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
Training schedule
Training will be facilitated and delivered by our chosen provider, at a location to be determined. This will likely be delivered as a day-release model (subject to change).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Initiative
Other requirements
Must hold a full clean driving licence.
About this employer
Vital Energi is undergoing significant growth to meet the increasing demand for energy-saving and low-carbon energy projects. We are an energy solutions provider who design, build, operate and maintain low carbon energy projects. We support hospitals, universities, residential developments, towns and cities, as well as industrial and commercial clients to decarbonise their buildings. The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sexual orientation, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements. Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in the UK and are currently resident in the UK are invited to apply.
After this apprenticeship
After completing the Low Carbon Heating Technician Apprenticeship, you'll be qualified to work as an O&M Technician, with opportunities to progress into senior or specialist roles such as O&M Engineer, commissioning technician, or technical support. With experience, you could move into supervisory or management positions. We encourage all of our employees to continue with their learning and there will be opportunities to work towards HNC, HND and Degree Level Apprenticeships were appropriate, upon completion of the Level 3 Apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
VITAL ENERGI UTILITIES LIMITED
Dave Archer
earlycareers@vitalenergi.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333157.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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