Air conditioning apprenticeship
MORRIS & YOUNG MECHANICAL LIMITED
Hertford (SG13 7BJ)
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026
Posted on 29 April 2026
Contents
Summary
Applicants will be working as part of a team within our service, maintenance and installation departments.
Applicants must have a get up and go attitude, be willing to learn and develop and can travel around London independently. Applicants will need to be able to complete a DBS check successfully.
- Wage
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£16,640 to £26,436.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday in workplace, with one day per week in college.
Shifts TBC.
40 hours 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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2
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
- Working as part of a team in London and surrounding counties. We work on a variety of properties including The O2, The Bank of England, hospitals, universities and commercial properties.
- The applicants will learn about the installation, servicing, maintenance and repairs of air conditioning systems.
- They will be working in plant rooms and will be assisting with diagnosing faults, rectifying them and general maintenance such as filter changes. The team work closely together so a good attitude to work and time keeping is essential.
Where you'll work
12 Mead Business Centre
Hertford
SG13 7BJ
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
Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety, regulations and standards. Apply safe systems of work, including carrying out a risk assessment.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and standards for example prevention of refrigerant emissions, segregate resources for reuse and, recycling and disposal of waste.
- Position, fix, joint and test, pipework and electrical circuits.
- Test, charge with refrigerant and commission vapour compression systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Interpret information and data from log books and diagrams.
- perform servicing, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on vapour compression systems including routine and reactive maintenance, installation of components and safe electrical isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to vapour compression systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission vapour compression systems, safe recovery and disposal of equipment, hazardous waste refrigerant transfer.
- Decommission electrical and electronic systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Adjust vapour compression system operating parameters to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
- Maximise performance of vapour compression systems by determining heating and cooling loads and selecting and balancing components and systems.
- Retrofit and retro fill existing equipment to lower GWP refrigerants.
- Mitigate risks of refrigerants including environmental, toxicity and flammability hazards.
- Identify and use tools and equipment.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Complete a customer handover.
- Work collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
- Apply project leadership techniques and principles.
- Use information and digital technology and comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Comply with health and safety, regulations and standards. Apply safe systems of work, including carrying out a risk assessment.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and standards for example prevention of refrigerant emissions, segregate resources for reuse and, recycling and disposal of waste.
- Position, fix, joint and test, pipework and electrical circuits.
- Test, charge with refrigerant and commission vapour compression systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Interpret information and data from log books and diagrams.
- perform servicing, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on vapour compression systems including routine and reactive maintenance, installation of components and safe electrical isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to vapour compression systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission vapour compression systems, safe recovery and disposal of equipment, hazardous waste refrigerant transfer.
- Decommission electrical and electronic systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
- Adjust vapour compression system operating parameters to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
- Maximise performance of vapour compression systems by determining heating and cooling loads and selecting and balancing components and systems.
- Retrofit and retro fill existing equipment to lower GWP refrigerants.
- Mitigate risks of refrigerants including environmental, toxicity and flammability hazards.
- Identify and use tools and equipment.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Complete a customer handover.
- Work collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
- Apply project leadership techniques and principles.
- Use information and digital technology and comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations.
- Apply ethical principles.
Training schedule
The apprenticeship will run over 3 years with one day a weekday release to UCG Willesden Campus
More training information
We work closely with all our training providers to ensure that all works required for the portfolios are carried out, this may mean moving to a projects team to be part of a large installation.
Quarterly meetings are held with the college to review the progress. Portfolios are required weekly to the Managers so they can review the learning and understanding.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Being comfortable working at height
- Driving licence preferable
About this employer
Morris and Young Mechanical are a mid-sized air conditioning and refrigeration specialist contractor located in Hertfordshire in our newly refurbished 3500 sq. ft office and warehouse. We have engineers based around London and the Home counties.
Our directors, Jamie Stern (Sales Director) and Andy Montier (Service Director), are both fully qualified time served air conditioning engineers with nearly 65 years of experience between them.
We believe our company allows us to provide our customers with a professional, personal, bespoke and individual service that allows our engineers to familiarise themselves with the idiosyncrasies of each and every client no matter what the size of the contract.
We invest heavily in industry training and all staff that attend site are PAYE employees, we do not subcontract any of our service and maintenance contracts. Utilising our own engineers allows us to maintain a high level of service reflecting our duty of care to carry out strict preventative maintenance to reduce breakdowns and equipment downtime.
We have vast experience working with some of the UKs most recognisable heritage sites such as The O2, The Tower of London, where we designed and installed the cooling for the crown jewels and we are the current incumbent service and maintenance contractor at the Bank of England, having entered the fifth year of the contract with them. We service and maintain their air conditioning and refrigeration at Threadneedle Street, Moorgate and of course the high security Debden site with and including the critical main comms room. As expected, the security vetting for this contract is of the highest level. All works are carried out under a strict permit to work system and given the nature of the contract the client is particularly risk averse.
Our largest individual site now has over 1000 A/C units, 166 AHU’s and 20 chillers. The majority of the AHU’s are all HTM03 and much of the equipment is life critical, serving operating theatres, laboratories, drugs stores as well as numerous health care departments. The majority of the AHU’s require out of hours service and maintenance, normally over weekends or before 7:00am, again working under strict permit to work system.
http://www.mymechanical.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Mobile phone or tablet
- Company vehicle (driving licence required)
- 20 days annual leave rising to 25 incrementally
- Additional day off on birthday
After this apprenticeship
Air Conditioning Engineer with prospects to move in to Contract Management if desired.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MORRIS & YOUNG MECHANICAL LIMITED
Jamie Stern
info@mymechanical.co.uk
01992842002
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000024769.
Apply now
Closes on Friday 31 July 2026