2027 Building Services Design Engineer- Degree Apprentice - Oxford

Location: Oxford (OX2 6AT)
Closing date: 28 days (Friday 6 November 2026)
Posted on: 8 October 2026

Summary

Joining us is the chance to play your part in the future of building services engineering design. Our projects span scales, styles, and geographies. We’re committed to sustainable design, innovation, and collaboration with forward-thinking clients. Straight away you’ll experience working on live projects.

Wage: £25,878 a year
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. 37 hours a week
Start date: Monday 6 September 2027
Duration: 5 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

As an apprentice, your day-to-day tasks will vary, as we’ll expose you to all aspects of our work:

• How to produce detailed designs and drawings
• Use the latest computer modelling software
• Undertake site surveys
• Research ground-breaking technologies
• Have regular meetings with project teams, clients or end users
• Prepare engineering system designs on computers
• Writing specifications
• Monitoring progress on construction sites

There could be opportunities to specialise in electrical, mechanical or digital engineering design. Communicating will span all of these, as we regularly liaise with project teams, meet clients or end users, and attend collaborative meetings.

Where you'll work

35 Great Clarendon Street
Oxford
OX2 6AT

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)

What you'll learn

• 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).