Apprentice Service and Maintenance Technician

Summary

Join our Facilities Services team where you can learn from the industry’s best, maintaining prestigious office buildings across the region. No two buildings or contracts are ever the same.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

Training course

Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)

Hours

Shifts are Monday to Friday between 07:00- 18:00 dependent on the project.

40 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 26 August 2026

Duration

4 years

Positions available

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

• Follow a schedule to test and maintain all heating, ventilation and water systems correcting any faults you may find
• Read and understand engineering drawings
• Use the Building Management System to control and monitor the electrical, heating and ventilation systems
• Use small hand tools such as hammers, saws, screwdrivers etc.
• Implement essential safety procedures before working on systems
• Assist with minor electrical maintenance
• Work with other trades and gain experience from their knowledge
• Develop strong customer service and client relationship building skills

Where you'll work

3 Endeavour House
Parkway Court, Longbridge Road
Plymouth
PL6 8LR

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

LEEDS COLLEGE OF BUILDING

Training course

Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)

What you'll learn

• 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

• You will attend college to complete the Building Services Engineer Service and Maintenance Level 3 Apprenticeship
• In addition, you will regularly attend in house training and development as part of the programme

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade C/4)
• Maths (grade C/4)
• Science (grade C/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
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Logical
• Team working