Apprentice Mechanical Building Services Engineer
INGLETON WOOD SERVICES LIMITED
Colchester (CO4 9YQ)
Closes on Monday 30 March 2026
Posted on 16 February 2026
Contents
Summary
We are recruiting an Apprentice Mechanical Engineer at our Colchester office (CO4 9YQ) the successful candidate will study the Building Services Design Engineering Degree Apprenticeship at London Southbank University. We are a multi-award-winning private practice, renowned for offering excellent support and career development opportunities.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Building services engineer (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5:30pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Saturday 1 August 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- 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 gradually take on more responsibility as your skills, knowledge, and confidence grow. The selected candidate will be expected to:
- Ensure all projects are completed to a high technical standard, on time and on budget.
- Carry out fee earning work, getting involved in design of schemes where appropriate and particularly where high-level technical expertise is required.
- Complete tasks as assigned by the team leader including assisting in the formation of sound engineering, providing cost effective solutions.
- Meet with clients to establish project brief and budget costs for client consideration.
- Draw up detailed specifications and drawings against client’s briefs.
- Review tenders received and prepare tender reports and recommendations.
- Project manage site works from commencement to completion.
- Monitor site works against specification requirements and agree contractor’s final accounts.
- Carry out inspections of existing installations and submit condition reports.
- Write technical reports and design presentations as well as preparation of tender drawings and specifications.
- Develop Energy Strategies to adopt appropriate sustainable and low carbon mechanical design systems.
- Use drafting software such as CAD including AutoCAD and Revit.
- Select appropriate plant and equipment to develop mechanical plantroom configurations.
- Detail analysis of pipework and ductwork distribution systems and co-ordination with other disciplines.
- Complete site visits, surveys, and witness system commissioning.
- Familiar with relevant legislation, codes of practice, CIBSE guides, building regulations and best practice.
- Complete tasks as assigned by the team leader including assisting in the formation of sound engineering, cost effective solutions.
- Help prepare specifications and documents to enable projects to be tendered and to gain accurate costs from contractors.
- Draw up detailed specifications and drawings against clients briefs.
- Assist in the preparation of any necessary building regulation or planning applications and monitor and deal with as necessary through discussions with the necessary authorities.
- Assist with the assessment of tenders and make recommendations to project leaders.
- Assist Project Managers on projects by attending site for Project Progress Meetings.
- To learn from the M&E team, and other disciplines how to understand and clearly define clients’ expectations to provide advice, keep them informed of progress on projects and make them aware of technical and financial implications.
- Administer the construction contract as required, ensuring that acceptable quality standards of workmanship and performance are achieved.
- Assist in checking contractors’ valuations for M&E work.
- Learn how expenditure is controlled and how to ensure that schemes are completed within budget and on time.
- Understand how final accounts are agreed with Contractors.
- Ensure professional competence through attendance at University to complete professional competence and for continual professional development.
- Ensure that time spent on projects is recorded on daily timesheets and that fee invoicing is carried out at appropriate stages.
- Carry out inspections of properties to produce survey reports.
- Endeavour to promote the Practice to obtain new projects and new clients by being aware of and promoting Ingleton Wood’s values and objectives to external stakeholders.
Where you'll work
Ingleton Wood
Colchester Business Park
Colchester
CO4 9YQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
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
The successful candidate will work towards completing a Building Services Engineering Degree Apprenticeship focusing on Mechanical Engineering and study at London Southbank University.
The training will be one day a week out of the office with the remaining days working in the office/out on site.
More training information
You will have to complete 20% off the job training as part of the apprenticeship.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Math (grade C/4 or above)
A Level in:
- Math (grade B)
- Science (Chemistry or 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
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Data analysis skills
Other requirements
- Role involves travel to site - full clean drivintg licence and vehicle is required
- Willingness to work outside in inclement weather conditions and attend building sites
- Comfortable working at height
About this employer
Ingleton Wood is a growing and dynamic multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy, providing a wide range of services across the majority of industry sectors including commercial, health, education, defence, residential and community.
Our services include architecture, building surveying, building services engineering, planning, interior design, sustainability, civil and structural engineering, quantity surveying, project management, CDM and health and safety services.
We have offices in London, Billericay, Cambridge, Colchester, Norwich, Oxford, and Nottingham and plan to open further sites in the future to develop our national service.
https://www.ingletonwood.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Competitive Company Pension Scheme.
- Opportunities for flexible and remote working.
- Cycle to work Scheme.
- Health cash plan scheme.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Learning doesn’t stop when we leave the classroom. Our teams are supported to continue their development in order that we can support our clients and each other effectively, delivering commissions with the latest knowledge and know how to hand. Through the Practice’s ongoing appraisal process our in-house Learning & Development Specialist helps our employees to design person specific training programmes.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000015219.
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Closes on Monday 30 March 2026
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