Apprentice Pipefitter Level 2

SOUTHEAST CENTRE FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT LTD

London (EC4Y 8AE)

Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 23 October 2025

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Summary

Working on a new installation in the Salisbury Square area of London. You will be installing the infrastructure pipework and setting up energy efficient plant rooms for this new exciting project.

Wage

£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age

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CoTrain will cover all travel costs to and from College and if you live more than 45 mins from Croydon then accommodation will be booked and paid for during these block weeks. A £25 travel allowance per week is also available for daily site travel.

Training course
Building services engineering installer (level 2)
Hours
Site hours will be typically 07:30 to 16:30, Monday to Friday. College will be 09:00 to 16:00 during block weeks. Weekend work will only be offered if eligible and confirmed in advance with the apprentice.

39 hours a week

Start date

Monday 17 November 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

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

  • Comply with appropriate health and safety, risk and quality requirements 
  • Correctly select and safely use tools and equipment for the fabrication, assembly, installation and decommissioning of pipework components and systems 
  • Plan, organise and undertake the fabrication, assembly, installation, maintenance and decommissioning of pipework components and systems 
  • Read, interpret and apply engineering drawing information 
  • Shape pipework components using hand and power tools to cut, drill, and shape  

Where you'll work

1 Salisbury Square
London
EC4Y 8AE

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CROYDON COLLEGE

Training course

Building services engineering installer (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Comply with building services engineering industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and practices.
  • Identify and report hazards and risks in the workplace. Take action to mitigate hazards and risks.
  • Comply with safe systems of work and apply control measures.
  • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • Follow environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
  • Move, lift, and handle materials.
  • Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Use and store hand tools, power tools and equipment.
  • Prepare work area and complete set out requirements.
  • Maintain a safe working area.
  • Select materials, components, and fittings required to complete the work tasks.
  • Plan order of works and carry out pre-work checks.
  • Carry out pre commissioning activities for building service engineering installations.
  • Fabricate system pipework including pipe bending.
  • Test fabricated pipework system.
  • Install pipework system, including pipework, bracketry and components of pipework systems, not including the energy source.
  • Use pipework jointing techniques.
  • Test installed pipework.
  • Apply decommissioning practices, for example draining pipework system.
  • Complete system handover activities.
  • Complete a final quality inspection.
  • Communicate with others verbally including internal and external customers, colleagues using sector specific terminology.
  • Communicate with others in a written context including internal and external customers, colleagues using sector specific terminology.
  • Interpret drawings from drawings, specifications, and system schematics.
  • Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
  • Use information technology and digital systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and polices.
  • Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion policies.
  • Work within limits of authority and escalate issues.
  • Collaborate with others including customers, colleagues, internal and external stakeholders and other trades.
  • Apply team working and wellbeing principles.
  • Comply with building services engineering industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
  • Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and practices.
  • Identify and report hazards and risks in the workplace. Take action to mitigate hazards and risks.
  • Comply with safe systems of work and apply control measures.
  • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
  • Follow environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
  • Move, lift, and handle materials.
  • Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Use and store hand tools, power tools and equipment.
  • Prepare work area and complete set out requirements.
  • Maintain a safe working area.
  • Select materials, components, and fittings required to complete the work tasks.
  • Plan order of works and carry out pre-work checks.
  • Carry out pre commissioning activities for building service engineering installations.
  • Fabricate system pipework including pipe bending.
  • Test fabricated pipework system.
  • Install pipework system, including pipework, bracketry and components of pipework systems, not including the energy source.
  • Use pipework jointing techniques.
  • Test installed pipework.
  • Apply decommissioning practices, for example draining pipework system.
  • Complete system handover activities.
  • Complete a final quality inspection.
  • Communicate with others verbally including internal and external customers, colleagues using sector specific terminology.
  • Communicate with others in a written context including internal and external customers, colleagues using sector specific terminology.
  • Interpret drawings from drawings, specifications, and system schematics.
  • Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
  • Use information technology and digital systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and polices.
  • Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion policies.
  • Work within limits of authority and escalate issues.
  • Collaborate with others including customers, colleagues, internal and external stakeholders and other trades.
  • Apply team working and wellbeing principles.

Training schedule

  • The apprentice will spend 80% of their time on site installing all associated pipework and control mechanisms as per site drawings and instructions
  • 20% of the time will be at Croydon College on a block relase timetable studying theory and practical aspects of the apprenticeship

More training information

  • Croydon College campus
  • Block release (intial 2 week block and then 1 week blocks)
  • 2 year program
  • Opportunity to progress onto level 3 if successful and want to continue

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English Language (grade 4 to 9)

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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

Other requirements

Working at heights Working in all conditions Reliability and enthusiasm to learn and work hard to gain knowledge and qualifications

About this employer

CoTrain is a program under SECBE . As a shared apprenticeship scheme and a Flexible Job Apprenticeship Agency partly funded by CITB to provide a route into industry for anyone wishing to complete an apprenticeship. We employ and mentor the apprentice and place them with our construction partners and colleges to gain the correct experience & skills to complete their qualifications.

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Company benefits

Travel bursary as above. Free employer support program. Allocated Apprenticeship Manager to support you throughout the apprenticeship.

After this apprenticeship

  • Progression onto Level 3 Apprenticeship in the same discipline
  • Full time employment as a Pipefitter/Installer
  • Continue progression onto management postions in the industry

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SOUTHEAST CENTRE FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT LTD

Helen Banning

Helen.Banning@secbe.org.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000348100.

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Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 11:59pm)

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