Apprentice Building Services and Maintenance Engineer J3456
SOUTH WEST APPRENTICESHIP COMPANY LTD
Gloucester (GL4 3RU)
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 11 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 December 2025
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Summary
Would you like to start your career with a world-leading organisation? This apprenticeship places you within a highly skilled in-house engineering team operating in a mission-critical data centre
- Wage
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£30,100 a year
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+ £5000 shift allowance per annum
- Training course
- Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
- Hours
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This role involves shift work:
4x Day shifts (12 hours 15mins)
6x Days off
4x Night shifts (12 hours 15mins)
4x Days off
3x Days and 3x Nights in a row (all 12 hrs 15mins)
4x Days off.
43 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 23 February 2026
- Duration
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3 years 1 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
You will be trained to carry out a blend of Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM), reactive repair work, and emergency response. It is hands-on, varied, and perfect for someone who loves problem-solving and wants to develop great technical skills.
Key Responsibilities
As an apprentice, you will learn how to:
- Carry out electrical PPM tasks following set engineering schedules
- Maintain systems to maximise efficiency, safety and reliability
- Follow engineering and health & safety standards, including HASAWA
- Maintain accurate documentation and quality assurance records
- Respond to reactive maintenance and helpdesk requests as part of a dedicated team
- Assist with diagnoses of electrical faults across the site
- Gain understanding of controls for heating and ventilation systems
- Support repair work on lighting, distribution boards and electrical components
- Participate in monthly site meetings
- Provide clear reports on work completed and system performance
- Work collaboratively with other trades on site
- Carry out duties that support the wider contract and service growth
You will also learn to respond confidently to call-outs, breakdowns and emergencies, building real resilience and technical independence.
Where you'll work
Barnwood
Gloucester
GL4 3RU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLP TRAINING LTD
Training course
Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.
- Comply with current company policies and procedures.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.
- Produce a risk assessment.
- Produce a method statement.
- Plan work activities.
- Apply sustainable principles and techniques.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.
- Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
- Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.
- Minimise delays to planned work.
- Amend and replan work activities.
- Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.
- Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.
- Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.
- Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.
- Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Isolate building service engineering systems.
- Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.
- Replace components.
- Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.
- Handover completed maintenance activities.
- Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Provide internal feedback.
- Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.
- Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.
- Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.
- Repair components.
- Apply safe working practices and comply with safe working methods, including highlighting control method application and safe systems of work.
- Comply with current company policies and procedures.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment to identify and manage a safe working environment.
- Produce a risk assessment.
- Produce a method statement.
- Plan work activities.
- Apply sustainable principles and techniques.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow organisational and site procedures for waste management across the site.
- Plan, organise, and carry out tasks in a way that utilises resources, for example cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
- Plan, organise, prepare, and secure area of work for setting out and work activities.
- Minimise delays to planned work.
- Amend and replan work activities.
- Prepare and maintain work areas to ensure safe access and egress for self and others.
- Select, use, secure and store hand and power tools, equipment, and components.
- Interpret information from sources such as manufacturer's instructions, drawings, plans, specifications, or previous reports.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of a building services engineering system.
- Carry out decommission of a building services engineering system.
- Undertake planned maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Undertake reactive maintenance activities to building services engineering systems.
- Isolate building service engineering systems.
- Identify and diagnose faults and outline solutions for resolution.
- Replace components.
- Communicate options in writing for repairs, replacements or improvements including the impact of cost, and timescales in writing.
- Handover completed maintenance activities.
- Use information technology and digital systems to monitor and manage the operation of plant and equipment.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic.
- Provide internal feedback.
- Communicate verbally with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and policy.
- Refer problems outside of own responsibility or authority to the relevant person.
- Identify, carry out and record industry related continuing professional development (CPD) activities.
- Repair components.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 to 9 (A* to C))
- Maths (grade 4 to 9 (A* to C))
- Technical (grade 4 to 9 (A* to C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Commercial Awareness
- Risk Management
- Adaptability
- Drive for Excellence
- Motivated
- Customer Focus
Other requirements
This role needs your long-term commitment to attend college and all training courses over a period of four years, ending with you becoming a fully qualified building services engineer.
About this employer
As an apprentice, South West Apprenticeship Company Limited, the Flexi Job Agency (FJA) will employ the successful candidate on behalf of this employer. 99% of our apprentices gain full-time employment with their host organisation after completing their apprenticeship or they have progressed onto higher qualifications. The experience and knowledge you gain, plus the relationships you develop, make it easier to progress quickly.
After this apprenticeship
Full-time position within the company for the right candidate. Past apprentices have been promoted and gone into higher roles within the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GLP TRAINING LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000004870.
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Closes in 30 days (Sunday 11 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
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