Apprentice Building Services Engineer
MITIE GROUP PLC
Portsmouth (PO3 6FH)
Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 13 August 2025)
Posted on 30 July 2025
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Summary
Ready to turn your potential into something extraordinary? At Mitie, we're the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company. We deliver critical services that power businesses, communities, and individuals across the nation.
- Wage
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£19,000 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, shifts may vary.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 3 months
- 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
As an Apprentice Maintenance Engineer, you'll be supporting Mitie's delivery of two Public Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts, covering 8 buildings across a diverse and critical portfolio. These include residential respite centres, day centres, healthcare facilities, and hospitals – essential community sites where the quality and timeliness of maintenance really matter.
Our services are largely self-delivered and supported by a network of trusted subcontractors. You'll join a high-performing team providing planned and reactive maintenance across all sites – helping to keep essential services running safely and efficiently, 24/7. As part of a rotating on-call schedule, you'll contribute to our fast-paced response operation, where meeting PFI contract response times is essential.
This role involves working in sensitive environments and around vulnerable young people, so an enhanced DBS check will be required.
Our Apprentice Mobile Engineers are problem-solvers, team players, and hands-on learners who support our clients' facilities on the ground. Under the guidance of your experienced mentor, you'll:
- Develop core trade skills and technical knowledge to conduct routine maintenance and minor planned and responsive repair work.
- Learn to work across a variety of trades including carpentry, plumbing, plastering, painting, decorating, tiling, and external works.
- Respond to urgent issues across a mobile patch of PFI sites, contributing to planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive repairs.
- Put health, safety, environmental, and quality standards at the centre of everything you do – helping protect both people and places.
Where you'll work
Unit 1.1, Central Point
Kirpal Road
Portsmouth
PO3 6FH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLP TRAINING LTD
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
As part of your Apprenticeship, you will be enroled onto a Level 3 Building Services Engineering qualification which normally runs for 36 months. You will be fully supported by our partnered training provider, GLP Training, to achieve this qualification by having 1-2-1 advice and support, e-learning materials, and a whole team of experts on hand for advice. As part of your training, you will attend GLP Training Centres in Worcester every 3 months for 2-3 days. All travel expenses and accommodation will be covered for you to attend this training.
Our dedicated Apprenticeship Team will support you every step of the way, helping you make the most of your opportunities and to achieve the goals you already have – and those you have yet to discover!
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
Other requirements
This role involves working in sensitive environments and around vulnerable young people, so an enhanced DBS check will be required. As you will be covering multiple sites, and be assigned a Mitie Van, a full UK driving licence is essential for this role.
About this employer
At Mitie, we’re the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company. We deliver critical services that power businesses, communities, and individuals across the nation. Rock Power Connections are proud to be part of Mitie designing and building electrical infrastructure solutions across the UK, bringing high voltage power to the places it’s needed.
After this apprenticeship
Joining Mitie means being part of a team that values collaboration, innovation, and the passion to make a difference. We're here to help you kick off your career with purpose, passion, and plenty of support.
Whether you're stepping into your first job or looking to change your career, our apprenticeships are your ticket to learning, earning, and achieving. With us, you'll gain nationally recognised qualifications, real-world experience, and a competitive salary – all while being part of a company that truly cares about its people and the planet.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GLP TRAINING LTD
earlycareers@mitie.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334552.
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Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 13 August 2025)
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