Apprentice Building Services Service and Maintenance Engineer
CoTrain
London (EC2M 2QS)
Closes in 17 days (Saturday 28 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 9 February 2026
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Summary
CoTrain have an apprentice Building Services (service and maintenance engineer) position available, working on a new build project that contains domestic and commercial areas. Applicants should come from the London Borough of City of London (Bishopsgate) to meet local authority targets.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
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Starting salary will be based on the National Minimum Wage for your age group. Salaries are increased each April in line with rises in NMW and we also review your salary alongside your performace during the apprenticeship
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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Hours on site will be 8.00am to 4.30pm, Monday - Friday.
Working week based on 40 hours per week.
College days will be 9.00am to 4.30pm.
No evenings or weekends expected.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 March 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
- Inspection, Testing and repair or all Heating and ventilation systems that have been installed
- Ensuring systems meet current legislation and the buildings specified requirements
- Working safely to ensure systems are isolated correctly during inspection and testing
- Replace and repair faulty and danmaged components of systems
- Completing testing reports of systems
- Gaining knowledge of different HVAC systems and their capabilities
Where you'll work
5 Broadgate
London
EC2M 2QS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLS4STEM 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
- Training for this position involve one day a week at a local college
- Tasks on site will include inspection, testing and commisioning HVAC systems in different areas of Newly built buildings
- Investigation, fault finding and repair of existing HVAC systems
- Always following site health & safety rules and wearing the correct PPE at all times
More training information
- Working from heights will be necessary for some tasks
- Training will be 50% theory and 50% practical
- Maths and English Level 2 Functional Skills can be added to the apprenticeship for the right applicant. Grade 4 and above GCSEs in one or both subjects would be preferred
- 4 days a week will be spent on various sites working on cutomers projects with 1 day a week spent at college
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Punctuality and reliability
Other requirements
- Working at heights
- Working inside and outside
- This is a full-time position
- Willingness to learn and meet targets
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
- We provide max £25/week travel bursary which can be claimed weekly
- Salaries paid monthly on the last working day of each month
- Automatic access to our Employee Assistance Programme
After this apprenticeship
Successful completion of this apprenticeship should lead to a full-time position as a trained painter and decorator. After further experience it will be possible to move onto supervision or management positions and further opportunities to study at these levels.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SKILLS4STEM LTD.
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000013977.
Apply now
Closes in 17 days (Saturday 28 February 2026 at 11:59pm)