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Vaillant UK Apprenticeship
Vaillant UK are proud to be part of the worldwide heating and hot water corporation. The company develops and manufactures its products and services at sites in the United Kingdom as well as Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey, and China.
Wage
£21,944.68 a year
Training course
Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
Hours
- Monday - Thursday 8:30am - 5:00pm
- Friday 8:30am - 3:30pm
- 37 hours a week
Start date
Monday 5 October 2026
Duration
2 years 6 months
Positions available
7
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working.
You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Apprentices will learn how to plan, install, service, commission, and maintain all aspects of a low carbon heating system. During the apprenticeship, apprentices will be placed with one of our installer partners 3 days a week to gain valuable work experience. They will also attend college and spend time with our field service engineers.
Customer service skills will be very important in the success of each stage, as well as being organised, tidy, and respectful. All of this will be further developed and supported by time working with and for Vaillant Group - whether that be in our Service Centre, Training department, Product teams, or Industrial areas.
Where you'll work
73 Western Way
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 3SP
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE
Training course
Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
What you'll learn
Course contents:
- Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance, and applying safe working practices.
- Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
- Produce work programmes for tasks within the low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
- Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test, commission, and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
- Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Service, maintain, diagnose faults, and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis, and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems, including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission heating and hot water systems.
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
- Plan, size, and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
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Training schedule
The learner will be studying the Low Carbon Heating Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship standard qualification.
Day Release to West Suffolk College
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
- Science (grade 4)
- BTEC in:
- Plumbing and Heating (grade Pass)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Vaillant UK are proud to be part of the worldwide heating and hot water corporation Vaillant Group who has a presence in over 20 countries with national sales companies, and exports to more than 60.
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The Vaillant Group is an international family-owned company with a heritage of over 150 years in providing customers with energy-saving and easy-to-operate solutions for heating, cooling, and hot water.
In its core business of heating technologies, the company is the second-largest European manufacturer in this sector. In addition, the Vaillant Group is also active in ventilation and air-conditioning technology markets.
As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of environment-friendly heating and air-conditioning technology, sustainability plays an integral role in the Vaillant Group’s activities. Home and world climate are inseparable, and modern heating technology can today make an important contribution to achieving climate protection targets. In the UK alone, replacing an old heating system with a new high efficiency boiler can save more than 30% of energy a year, and reduce CO2 emissions by a corresponding 30%. Sustainable heating is central to the Vaillant Group and its operation.
https://www.vaillant.co.uk (opens in new tab)
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Those that are selected to complete this apprenticeship will play a key role in encouraging and building the low carbon engineering industry with a particular and immediate focus on heat pump technology.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE
apprenticeships@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043746.
Closes in 18 days (Monday 31 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
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