Apprentice Building Services Engineer Service and Maintenance
MURRAY BUILDING SERVICES LTD
BLACKBURN (BB1 2EH)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 23 July 2025
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Summary
Murray Building are seeking a Building Services Engineer Service and Maintenance Apprentice. Engineers will fault find, fault diagnose, repair, and maintain systems, components, and equipment. They work within occupied and unoccupied buildings and facilities on their own, proficiently and without supervision.
- Wage
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£15,849.60 a year
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Year 1 apprentice £7.62 Year 2 apprentice £10.82 Year 3 apprentice £13.95
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 21 August 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
Service and maintenance engineers will
- fault find
- fault diagnose
- repair, and maintain systems, components, and equipment.
They work within occupied and unoccupied buildings and facilities on their own, proficiently and without supervision. They must communicate with team members and site managers
Where you'll work
3 SENTINEL COURT
WILKINSON WAY
BLACKBURN
BB1 2EH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SALFORD CITY COLLEGE
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.
Training schedule
Day and some block release at City Skills College in Salford M6
Working towards Level 2 Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer apprenticeship
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A-C/9-4)
- Maths (grade A-C/9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
Other requirements
We are seeking applications from applicants with a driving licence or who is actively learning to drive. This is due to the work being across the country.
About this employer
Murray Building Services was founded in the 1990s, to provide a first class, professional, mechanical engineering service to the building industry. Supported by an experienced management team, in-house designers and qualified site operatives, we operate across a wide range of commercial sectors with typical contracts ranging from £10k up to £2m.
After this apprenticeship
Full time employment may be offered to the right candidate after successful completion of the apprenticeship.
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 VAC1000333503.
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Closes in 22 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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