Apprentice Building Services Engineer
SOLATHERM LTD
Richmond (TW9 1DL)
Closes in 15 days (Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Solatherm is a multidiscipline maintenance company that delivers Facilities Management Building Maintenance to high-profile properties for domestic and commercial clients.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm (ONE HOUR LUNCH BREAK).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 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
Assisting Senior Engineers
- Support qualified engineers with installation, servicing, and repair of AC systems.
- Shadow engineers to learn industry practices and technical skills.
Installation Support
- Help with positioning and mounting AC units.
- Run and secure pipework, ducting, and electrical connections under supervision.
- Assist with charging systems with refrigerants (under guidance).
Maintenance Tasks
- Clean filters, coils, and condensers.
- Replace or check belts, fuses, and other consumable parts.
- Perform basic preventative maintenance checks.
Fault Finding Assistance
- Observe and assist in diagnosing faults and inefficiencies.
- Learn to use diagnostic tools such as gauges, multimeters, and leak detectors.
Health & Safety Compliance
- Follow safe working practices, including use of PPE.
- Help ensure compliance with F-Gas and environmental regulations.
- Maintain tidy and safe work areas.
Tools & Equipment
- Handle tools, ladders, and equipment safely.
- Assist in loading/unloading tools and materials for jobs.
- Learn proper use and care of specialist HVAC tools.
Documentation & Reporting
- Record maintenance activities and service logs under supervision.
- Report faults, parts used, and job progress to supervisors.
Customer Interaction
- Accompany senior engineers when meeting clients.
- Learn how to provide polite and professional communication.
Training & Development
- Attend college or technical training sessions as part of the apprenticeship.
- Study AC theory, electrical basics, and refrigeration principles.
- Develop practical skills through hands-on learning.
General Support Duties
- Keep the work van stocked and organised.
- Assist in site preparation and clean-up.
- Carry out other tasks as instructed by senior engineers.
Where you'll work
Oriel House
26 The Quadrant
Richmond
TW9 1DL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
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
The apprenticeship is delivered as a weekly day release across our two sites in Stratford, E15 and the Institute of Technology, Canning Town E14.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 / C or above)
- Maths (grade 4 / C or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
This role will require working outdoors and in a variety of conditions.
About this employer
Solatherm is multidiscipline maintenance company that deliver Facilities Management Building Maintenance to high profile properties for domestic and commercial clients.
After this apprenticeship
There is an opportunity to secure a permanent position after successfully completing the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000339699.
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Closes in 15 days (Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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