Building Services Design Engineer Apprentice
Ridge and Partners
Plymouth (PL6 8LR)
Closes in 30 days (Saturday 11 April 2026)
Posted on 12 March 2026
Contents
Summary
Start and develop a career as a Building Services Engineer with a multi awarding winning property and construction consultancy where you will be challenged daily working on exceptionally varied and diverse projects in a team atmosphere.
- Wage
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£19,000 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, between 8.30am to 5.00pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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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
Building services engineers are responsible for ensuring that the electrical, mechanical and other systems within buildings work effectively and efficiently.
Well-designed and maintained building services systems are essential in supporting people with their busy lives and help them maximise the benefits from their built environment.
Our design approach to Building Services Engineering is to understand the client’s brief, interrogate the needs and operation of the building and use innovative methods in the design process.
As buildings are responsible for over 40% of the world’s energy consumption, Building Services Engineers have an important responsibility to minimise carbon emissions, reduce energy consumption, adapt to regulatory change and deliver on the sustainability agenda.
Duties will include:
- Working as part of a design team delivering detailed design
- Assisting with the creation of specifications and schedules
- Using specialist computer-aided design (CAD) and BIM (Revit) software and other resources to design the systems required for the project
- Site surveys and monitoring
- Attending design workshops and client meetings
- Liaising closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
- Report writing
- Producing asset registers
Where you'll work
1 Ensign House
Parkway Court, Longbridge Road
Plymouth
PL6 8LR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL
Training course
Building services engineer (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply engineering principles to solve broadly defined engineering problems and contribute to continuous improvement: scientific, theoretical, and technical principles.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate the results, including when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems or improving the performance of building services engineering components and systems.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret, and compare information in relation to materials, components or parts used in building services engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate building services engineering problems.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model building services engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of building services engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of building services engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against building services engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, Identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
- Apply engineering principles to solve broadly defined engineering problems and contribute to continuous improvement: scientific, theoretical, and technical principles.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate the results, including when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems or improving the performance of building services engineering components and systems.
- Employ mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems-based approach.
- Identify, interpret, and compare information in relation to materials, components or parts used in building services engineering.
- Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate building services engineering problems.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model building services engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of building services engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.
- Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare, within their own area of responsibility.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of building services engineering solutions.
- Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
- Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against building services engineering project performance criteria.
- Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements.
- Plans and manages resources, equipment and technology, to meet project requirements, specifications, costs and budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to, and communicate, changing demands.
- Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience. Use appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply teamwork and collaboration principles.
- Apply ethical principles, Identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing their continuing professional development (CPD).
Training schedule
You will be studying for BEng (Hons) in Building Services Engineering at University of the West of England as well as achieving Incorporated Engineer status with the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) at your End Point Assessment.
In addition:
- We’ll give you the structure you need to allocate the right amount of time to your studies, and your line manager will be focused on providing the right learning opportunities
- You’ll become part of our Future Talent Community, connecting everyone on our programmes into a safe, supportive and enjoyable space
- You’ll have opportunities to formally network with each other, as well as building your own connections on a personal level
- A full variety of CPD opportunities including webinars, short courses and masterclasses
- Allocated mentor to act as your trusted advisor throughout your programme
- Tailored development plan to strengthen your soft skills and leadership
- You’ll become a STEM ambassador
- You’ll have a buddy to support you with the day-to-day aspects of working at Ridge, someone who has trodden the same path and you’ll feel comfortable talking to about the little things!
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
- Maths (grade B)
- Physics (grade B)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
Ridge is a Built Environment Consultancy, helping our clients to create better places for people to live, learn and work. We are enabled by great people who are inspired and proud of what they do and respected for who they are.. We continually expand our expertise and nurture our talent – with a focus on quality, innovation and growth. Our multidiscipline team of 1,400+ people is based across 14 offices.
After this apprenticeship
- We pride ourselves on a strong culture of internal development and progression
- You will be supported towards becoming fully Chartered and will benefit from excellent opportunities to develop yourself and your career with a variety of courses, learning and workshops
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020901.
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Closes in 30 days (Saturday 11 April 2026)
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