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-award-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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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Building services engineering senior technician (level 4)
- 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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3 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 COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
Training course
Building services engineering senior technician (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply engineering principles, using relevant scientific, theoretical and technical know-how to solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review the results, when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems.
- Employ a range of advanced mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods to interpret and solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
- Interpret and compare performance information to choose compliant materials, components or parts.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address well-defined building services engineering problems.
- Produce and interpret building services engineering technical drawings, designs, and models, using analytical and computer-based software packages, recognising the limitations of the software used.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Comply with, and encourage others to demonstrate, statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development, and assess the impact of these in their work.
- Employ project management techniques, measuring and recording progress against building services engineering project plans.
- Assess and report on quality using appropriate management and assurance systems and continuous improvement processes.
- Identify and use resources, equipment and technology to meet project requirements, including specifications, budget and timescales.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and supervise others, recognising the need to comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, using appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance.
- Apply engineering principles, using relevant scientific, theoretical and technical know-how to solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
- Apply building services engineering techniques, procedures and methods, and review the results, when measuring and testing, designing, installing, commissioning, maintaining or operating building services engineering systems.
- Employ a range of advanced mathematical, statistical and data interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods to interpret and solve well-defined building services engineering problems.
- Interpret and compare performance information to choose compliant materials, components or parts.
- Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address well-defined building services engineering problems.
- Produce and interpret building services engineering technical drawings, designs, and models, using analytical and computer-based software packages, recognising the limitations of the software used.
- Produce building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation.
- Comply with, and encourage others to demonstrate, statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation.
- Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks.
- Apply principles of sustainable development, and assess the impact of these in their work.
- Employ project management techniques, measuring and recording progress against building services engineering project plans.
- Assess and report on quality using appropriate management and assurance systems and continuous improvement processes.
- Identify and use resources, equipment and technology to meet project requirements, including specifications, budget and timescales.
- Monitor and manage individual performance, and supervise others, recognising the need to comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) requirements.
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, using appropriate engineering terminology and conventions.
- Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information.
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance.
Training schedule
You will be studying a Level 4 apprenticeship in Building Services Engineering at the University of the Built Environment. Once complete you can progress to studying for your degree.
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 build 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 D)
- Physics (grade D)
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.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020909.
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Closes in 30 days (Saturday 11 April 2026)
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