Low Carbon Heating Technician Apprentice
VAILLANT GROUP UK LIMITED
Bury St Edmunds (IP33 3SP)
Closes in 18 days (Monday 31 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 August 2026
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Summary
Vaillant UK are proud to be part of the worldwide heating and hot
water corporation. The company develops and manufactures its products and services at sites in the United Kingdom as well as Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey and China.
- Wage
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£21,944.68 a year
- Training course
- Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday 8.30am - 5.00pm and Friday 8.30am - 3.30pm.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 October 2026
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- Positions available
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7
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
Apprentices will learn how to plan, install, service, commission and
maintain all aspects of a low carbon heating system. During the apprenticeship, apprentices will be placed with one of our
installer partners 3 days a week to gain valuable work experience,
they will also attend college and will spend some time with out field
service engineers.
Customer service skills will be very important in the success of each
stage, as well as being organised, tidy and respectful. All of this will
be further developed and supported by time working with and for
Vaillant Group - whether that be in our Service Centre, Training
department, Product teams, or Industrial areas.
Where you'll work
73 Western Way
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 3SP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE
Training course
Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
- Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
- Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
- Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
- Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission heating and hot water systems.
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
- Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
- Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
- Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
- Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
- Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
- Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission heating and hot water systems.
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
- Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
Training schedule
- The learner will be studying the Low Carbon Heating Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship standard qualification
- Day Release to West Suffolk College
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
- Science (grade 4)
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
About this employer
Vaillant UK are proud to be part of the worldwide heating and hot
water corporation Vaillant Group who has presence in over 20
countries with national sales companies, and exports to more than 60.
The Vaillant Group is an international family-owned company with a
heritage of over 150 years in providing customers with energy-saving
and easy to operate solutions for heating, cooling and hot water.
In its core business of heating technologies, the company is the
second-largest European manufacturer in this sector. In addition, the
Vaillant Group is also active in ventilation and air-conditioning
technology markets.
As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of environment-friendly heating and air-conditioning technology, sustainability plays an
integral role in the Vaillant Group’s activities. Home and world climate
are inseparable and modern heating technology can today make an
important contribution to achieving climate protection targets. In the
UK alone, replacing an old heating system with a new high efficiency
boiler can save more than 30 % of energy a year, and reduce CO2
emissions by a corresponding 30%. Sustainable heating is central to
the Vaillant Group and its operation.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Those that are selected to complete this apprenticeship will play a key
role in encouraging and building the low carbon engineering industry
with a particular and immediate focus on heat pump technology.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE
apprenticeships@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043746.
Apply now
Closes in 18 days (Monday 31 August 2026 at 11:59pm)