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2027 Building Services Design Engineer- Degree Apprentice - Birmingham
Location: HOARE LEA LLP West Midlands (B3 2ES)
Wage: £25,878 a year
Training course: Building services engineer (level 6)
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm 37 hours a week
Start date: Monday 6 September 2027
Duration: 5 years
Positions available: 1
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.
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
Billiards Building
134 Edmund Street
Birmingham
West Midlands B3 2ES
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
Training course
Building services engineer (level 6)
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).
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Training schedule
You will receive one day study leave during term times to attend university to work towards your BSc or BEng Building Services Engineering degree.
The Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship for Building Services Design Engineer will provide a route to gain Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status.
The typical duration for this apprenticeship is 60 months, but this will depend on the previous experience of the apprentice and opportunities to gain the full range of competence.
Functional Skills in English if required.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
- Science Subject (grade A-C) or equivalent in Maths (grade A-C)
T Level in:
- Construction: Design, Surveying and Planning (grade Merit)


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BTEC in:
- Extended Diploma in an Engineering subject (grade DDM)
National Diploma in an Engineering subject (grade DD)
Level 3 or equivalent in:
- Building Services (grade Merit)
Level 4 or equivalent in:
- Building Services (grade Merit)
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
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Genuine interest in developing a career within the sector.
About this employer
Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings. Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.
https://hoarelea.com/projects/
Company benefits
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our 9-day fortnight scheme, thriving community groups, varied social and networking events, and extensive professional and technical development schemes. We also offer an extensive benefits package, including private medical cover, electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme, stock options, and 25 days of annual leave.
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
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
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Potential job opportunities in the sector.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
Earlycareers@hoarelea.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000054432.
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Closes in 28 days (Friday 6 November 2026)
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