2026 Trade Apprenticeship - Pipe Fitter
LAING O'ROURKE SERVICES LIMITED
Oldbury (B69 4LA)
Closes in 19 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026)
Posted on 12 March 2026
Contents
Summary
You will be part of a delivery-focused assembly team. You will be provided with steel frames of varying shapes and sizes, incorporating welded pipework produced by other areas of the business. Using modern installation methods and working from fixed designs, you will be responsible for installing pipework into these frames.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Building services engineering installer (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday between 8.00am to 5.00pm. As a project-led business, the location of our work can vary depending on project needs. This role may require you to be prepared to work away from home at project sites across the UK.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 August 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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6
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
- Learn how to install and work with building service pipework systems on real projects
- Use tools and equipment safely, following industry health and safety standards
- Prepare work areas and materials before starting installation tasks
- Fabricate, bend and join pipework using specialist techniques
- Read drawings and technical plans to support installation work
- Work as part of a team, testing systems and helping complete projects to a high standard
Where you'll work
Trinity Street
Oldbury
B69 4LA
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
Requirements
Essential 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
The Trade and Technical Apprenticeship programme provides you with a formal college education, leading to a Level 2 and/or 3 apprenticeship standards in your chosen vocation. You will also gain a broad set of trade technical skills through on-the-job training, supported by our qualified and experienced workforce, and construction professionals. A dedicated mentor and approved training provider will work closely with you, providing regular feedback on your progress towards completing your apprenticeship.
Company benefits
Hands-on from day one.
We offer - Private Medical Insurance. Life Insurance. Personal Accident and Injury Insurance. Income Protection Enhanced Pension.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- On completion of the apprenticeship you will remain in the business and progress in your career
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CROYDON COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020770.
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Closes in 19 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026)
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