Building Services Engineer Apprentice Level 3 and 4 (Progression to Degree Level Apprenticeship)
Intake Talent
Kidlington (OX5 1LJ)
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026
Posted on 6 January 2026
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Summary
This apprenticeship offers the opportunity to begin a professional career in Building Services Engineering, learning how modern buildings are designed, planned, and equipped to create safe, sustainable, and comfortable environments.
- Wage
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£14,526 a year
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Your salary will increase each year, in line with minimum wage and experience. The expected salary range is as follows:
Y1 14K
Y2 17K
Y3 20K
Y4 25K
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Full-time, Monday - Friday (1 day per week college release).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 8 September 2026
- 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
During the apprenticeship, you’ll develop technical knowledge and practical understanding to support projects from design through to delivery. You’ll learn to:
- Understand the principles of building services systems (mechanical, electrical, and environmental).
- Assist in design development, technical drawings, and material schedules.
- Support project planning, costing, and coordination.
- Use CAD software and building information modelling tools.
- Work with architects, engineers, clients, and contractors to deliver successful projects.
Where you'll work
Langford Locks
Kidlington
OX5 1LJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNITED COLLEGES GROUP
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
You’ll attend the City of Westminster College one day per week to study towards your Level 3 BTEC Diploma in Building Services Engineering, with all travel and course expenses covered. On completion, you’ll progress to the Level 4 HNC in Building Services Engineering with the option to then progress to a Degree Level Apprenticeship
Travel from Oxford Park Way station to Paddington, followed by a short walk to the City of Westminster College (Paddington Campus).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade 4 or above)
- Science (grade 4 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Our Client: is a trusted name in mechanical building services, delivering high-quality design, installation, and maintenance solutions across commercial, residential, and public sector projects. With a focus on quality, collaboration, and professional growth, They are proud to invest in the next generation of engineers through their structured apprenticeship programmes
After this apprenticeship
On completion, you’ll progress to the Level 4 HNC in Building Services Engineering with the option to then progress to a Degree Level Apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNITED COLLEGES GROUP
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000006973.
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Closes on Friday 31 July 2026