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Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer (Level 3) Apprenticeship
This is a 4-year paid apprenticeship where you'll learn how to maintain, repair, and improve buildings and building services at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. You'll work with experienced engineers and maintenance teams. It is a great opportunity to earn while you qualify, work in a hands-on role, develop transferrable skills.
What you'll do at work
- Work alongside experienced engineers and maintenance staff
- Help carry out planned maintenance and repairs
- Respond to building issues reported through the helpdesk
- Learn how to inspect, diagnose, and fix faults
- Support repairs to mechanical and electrical systems
- Learn to read technical drawings and manuals
- Keep maintenance records up to date
- Follow health and safety procedures at all times
- Contribute to projects that improve the building and its facilities
Where you'll work
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
COVENT GARDEN
LONDON
WC2E 9DD
Training provider
CHOICE TRAINING LTD.
Training course
Building services engineering service and maintenance engineer (level 3)
What you'll learn
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
You'll split your time between:
- Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Choice Training Ltd, Dagenham
You will:
- Work towards a Level 3 Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer Apprenticeship
- Attend college one day per week during term time
- Complete online study and coursework
- Build a portfolio showing your skills and experience
- Work 40-hours per week (including study time)
More training information
This is a four-year course with Choice Training.
Requirements
- 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
- Problem-solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
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- Be 18 or older by 7th September 2026 (for insurance purposes).
- Have the right to work in the UK.
- Have lived in the UK for the last 3 continuous years.
- You cannot apply if you:
- You must not have a degree (or equivalent qualification).
- You must not have more than 6 months' professional experience in a similar engineering maintenance role.
About this employer
The Royal Ballet & Opera (www.roh.org.uk) is one of the most famous stages in the world for opera and ballet. The iconic theatre is home to The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, with more than 290 performances given in the main auditorium each year. More than 950 staff work at the Royal Ballet & Opera in areas ranging from lighting, costume making, set building, and scenic art, marketing, finance, box office, IT, and fundraising, and our apprenticeship scheme works across all areas.
https://www.rbo.org.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
There are many company benefits locally such as discounted gym membership, a healthcare service, and local shops and restaurants discounts. Staff can also see our productions for free or at discounted prices.
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 (opens in new tab). You may wish to apply for a role in our team or progress onto an entry-level role at another organisation. Depending on your ambition, you could work up to a managerial position in the future.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE (COVENT GARDEN) LTD
Sarah Waterman
sarah.waterman@roh.org.uk
07958522573
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040880.
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