Building Services Engineering Design Apprentice
KIMPTON LTD
WIRRAL (CH62 3RJ)
Closes on Monday 11 August 2025
Posted on 3 July 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Building Services team as a Mechanical Design Apprentice. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers on live construction and refurbishment projects, learning how to design energy-efficient heating, ventilation, and cooling systems for buildings.
- Wage
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£19,355 a year
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Year 2: £23,330
- Training course
- Building services engineering technician 2022 (level 3)
- Hours
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Standard workweek: 8:30am to 5.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years 8 months
- 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
- Support the production of mechanical design drawings using AutoCAD or Revit (with training)
- Assist with mechanical calculations such as heating and cooling loads, pipe sizing, and airflow
- Learn to use software tools like Excel and AutoCAD under guidance
- Help prepare technical schedules and equipment specifications.
- Attend internal project meetings and take notes or assist with documentation
- Shadow engineers during site visits and surveys
Research products, standards, or solutions to support the design process - Keep your learning record up to date and participate in apprenticeship training
Where you'll work
5 HAWKSHEAD RD
GREENFIELDS TECHNOLOGY PARK
BROMBOROUGH
WIRRAL
CH62 3RJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
THE CITY OF LIVERPOOL COLLEGE
Your training course
Building services engineering technician 2022 (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply appropriate building services engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to building services engineering and the construction or manufacturing process
- Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis and evaluation to support the delivery of building services engineering models (such as Building Information Modelling), designs, and technical solutions
- Operate computer-based software packages, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or modelling software (Revit) to produce and present technical information and documentation with relevant conventions and engineering terminology
- Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the building services engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
- Support and contribute to the production or modification of building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation, such as the Building Safety legislation.
- Apply principles of sustainable development, including those relating to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), environmental policies and legislations in building services engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions, and wider sustainability
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance systems and processes, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
- Consider equality, diversity, and inclusion in the delivery of building services engineering projects
- Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
- Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
- Apply appropriate building services engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to building services engineering and the construction or manufacturing process
- Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis and evaluation to support the delivery of building services engineering models (such as Building Information Modelling), designs, and technical solutions
- Operate computer-based software packages, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or modelling software (Revit) to produce and present technical information and documentation with relevant conventions and engineering terminology
- Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the building services engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
- Support and contribute to the production or modification of building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation, such as the Building Safety legislation.
- Apply principles of sustainable development, including those relating to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), environmental policies and legislations in building services engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions, and wider sustainability
- Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance systems and processes, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
- Consider equality, diversity, and inclusion in the delivery of building services engineering projects
- Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
- Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
- Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
- Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance
Your training plan
- Standard workweek (e.g., 37.5 - 40 hours)
- One day a week at the City of Liverpool College
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
- Science (grade 4/C)
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Engineering/ Physics/ Design & Technology (grade C)BTEC in:
Engineering/ Physics/ Design & Technology (grade C)Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this company
At Kimpton, we’ve been delivering M&E infrastructure and HVAC services across Liverpool since 1963. Our clients include Merseyside’s largest employers across every sector including Unilever, Walkers Crisps, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Radisson and Hilton Hotels, Kraft Heinz, Daresbury Laboratories, Liverpool Hope University and we look after the entire M&S Bank Arena – the hosts of Eurovision 2023. We installed the entire water and gas pipe network at Liverpool One, a 1.65million sq ft open-air complex of 170 stores, bars and restaurants, cinema and hotel – one of Europe’s leading retail and leisure destinations. We’re carrying out a £9m upgrade and refurbishment of the HVAC systems and offices throughout The Capital Building on the Strand, the largest Grade A office space in Liverpool, housing The Home Office and Crown Commercial Services. We installed the HVAC systems for Paul McCartney when he created LIPA in 1995 and at The Philharmonic Hall on Hope Street when it was refurbished in 1994. We’ve maintained both buildings ever since. It's because we have always been innovators in HVAC, and this thinking continues to the present day. For many, Heat Pump technology is new, but here at Kimpton, we installed our first heat pumps back in the 1970’s for Walkers Crisps and Golden Wonder. They were used to keep stocks of potatoes fresh and dry and were an innovative technology that would go on to save many £000’s in fuel costs and even more in carbon saving. We have continued to be at the forefront of heat pump system design and have gained many years of expertise in their design and installation since those early days. This culture of innovation has led to the delivery of two other UK firsts in renewable technology – we designed and installed the UK’s first tidal water source heat pumps in open sea at Plas Newydd, Anglesey for the National Trust and installed one of the UK’s first Transpired Solar Collectors with TATA steel at the SBEC Building on Deeside.
After this apprenticeship
Design Engineer
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KIMPTON LTD
Matt Breakwell
vacancies@kimpton.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329458.
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Closes on Monday 11 August 2025
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