Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprenticeship

Overview

As a Building Services Asset Apprentice, you will learn how the building systems that support AWE’s important facilities are maintained, improved and kept safe, reliable and available. You will develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to become a Building Services Asset Engineer within AWE’s Asset Engineering function.

Wage

• Starting salary: £24,500 a year
• Increasing to £26,000 in Year 2
• Further annual salary increases throughout your apprenticeship, subject to satisfactory performance and achievement of apprenticeship milestones.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme.
• Generous paid holiday entitlement of 270 hours per year, inclusive of Bank Holidays, plus every other Friday off as part of AWE’s flexible working pattern.

Hours

• 9 day fortnight.
• 33 hrs on the short week, 8hrs 15 mins per day.
• 41 hrs on the long week, 8hrs 15 mins per day Monday to Thursday and Fridays 8hrs.
• Please note hours may alter due to your offsite training establishment training times.
• 37 hours a week

Start Date

• Wednesday 1 September 2027

Duration

• 6 years

Positions Available

• 6

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What You'll Do

As a Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprentice, you will learn how the building systems that support AWE’s important facilities are maintained, improved and kept safe, reliable and available. You will develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to become a Building Services Asset Engineer within AWE’s Asset Engineering function.

This is not a generic building services design role. It is focused on maintaining, improving and assuring the performance of complex building services and facility systems that support national security operations within a licensed nuclear environment. You will work alongside experienced engineers responsible for ensuring that building services plant and infrastructure remain safe, reliable, compliant and available throughout their operational lifecycle.

Through an approved provider, structured placements and workplace experience, you will learn how engineering decisions support:

• Nuclear safety and safe facility operation
• Facility reliability and asset availability
• HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning), ventilation, LEV (Local Exhaust Ventilation), heating, cooling, water and electrical building services performance
• Building management systems and energy performance
• Engineering change, commissioning, handover and configuration control
• Maintenance optimisation, asset information quality and lifecycle renewal
• Regulatory compliance, SQEP (Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person) development and continuous improvement
• Nuclear safety-related equipment and environmental protection systems in high hazard facility infrastructure
• Heat exchangers, pressurised gasses, lifting equipment and handling systems

Where You'll Work

Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire RG7 4PR

Training

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

Training Provider

AWE PLC

Training Course

Building services engineer (level 6)

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).