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About Mitie
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About the Role
At Mitie, we're proud to work in partnership with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH), delivering the engineering and facilities services that help keep vital healthcare environments running safely and efficiently. From community hospitals and health centres to specialist healthcare facilities, our teams play an important role in supporting frontline healthcare professionals to provide outstanding patient care.
As an Apprentice Building Services Engineer, you'll join our CLCH engineering team and learn how to maintain the buildings and systems that healthcare environments depend on every day. Working alongside experienced engineers and technical specialists, you'll gain practical, hands-on experience while developing the skills, knowledge and behaviours needed for a successful career in building services engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Throughout your apprenticeship you'll have the opportunity to:
- Support the maintenance, inspection and repair of a wide range of building services systems, helping to keep healthcare facilities safe, compliant and fully operational
- Assist with planned preventative maintenance activities, learning how engineers proactively identify issues and maintain critical equipment before faults occur
- Work alongside qualified engineers to diagnose and resolve reactive maintenance issues, helping to restore services quickly and minimise disruption
- Gain experience working with building systems including heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), water systems, lighting, power distribution and associated plant equipment
- Learn how to use digital maintenance systems to log completed work, record asset information and track maintenance schedules
- Build strong working relationships with colleagues, subcontractors and healthcare staff, delivering excellent customer service in a professional healthcare environment
- Follow Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality (HSEQ) procedures at all times, ensuring safe working practices and supporting Mitie's commitment to sustainability and operational excellence
- Take part in regular training, mentoring and development activities designed to support your journey towards becoming a qualified Building Services Engineer
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Training and Development
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLP TRAINING LTD
Training course
Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
Course contents
- 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.
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Training Schedule
As part of this role, you'll complete the Level 3 Building Services Engineering Technician Apprenticeship, delivered in partnership with GLP Training.
Over the course of the programme, you'll combine real workplace experience with industry-recognised training, allowing you to develop the technical expertise needed for a rewarding career in engineering.
Your apprenticeship will include:
- Dedicated support from both Mitie and GLP Training throughout your learning journey
- Structured workplace development and mentoring from experienced engineers
- One-to-one reviews, coaching sessions and access to online learning resources
- Industry-recognised technical training aligned to the Building Services Engineering profession
- Block release training at GLP Training's Worcester training centre for two days every three months. Mitie will cover all travel and accommodation costs associated with attending these training sessions
Alongside your apprenticeship provider, our dedicated Early Careers and Apprenticeship teams will support you every step of the way, helping you develop the skills, confidence and experience needed for a long-term career with Mitie.
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