Trainee Mechanical Engineer Apprenticeship

To train as a mechanical engineering apprentice technician, to undertake a structured training programme of academic study and workshop work in order to gain the required skills and knowledge to support the company.

Requirements

• GCSE in: English (grade 6)
• GCSE in: Maths (grade 6)
• GCSE in: Science (grade 5) (desirable)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Patience

Responsibilities

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

• Admin roles
• Learn and understand the use of Microsoft applications to design HVAC systems

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

What you'll learn:

• Apply appropriate building services engineering principles, techniques, and methods, including mathematical, scientific, and technical know-how, to building services engineering and the construction or manufacturing process
• Apply key principles, techniques and methods of data and technical information collection, analysis and evaluation to support the delivery of building services engineering models (such as Building Information Modelling), designs, and technical solutions
• Operate computer-based software packages, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD) or modelling software (Revit) to produce and present technical information and documentation with relevant conventions and engineering terminology
• Apply statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures, and regulations in the building services engineering environment, using risk management processes, procedures, and documentation
• Support and contribute to the production or modification of building services engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, procedures, codes of practice, regulations, and legislation, such as the Building Safety legislation.
• Apply principles of sustainable development, including those relating to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), environmental policies and legislations in building services engineering projects, recognising the need to reduce carbon use, lower emissions, and wider sustainability
• Plan, carry out and manage own work in line with quality assurance systems and processes, recognising the wider implications to customer needs, and within cost and resource limitations
• Consider equality, diversity, and inclusion in the delivery of building services engineering projects
• Apply document control processes and procedures using the approved processes, maintaining quality compliance when creating or amending engineering documentation
• Communicate using appropriate methods for the audience, and incorporate relevant and appropriate terms, standards, and data
• Apply ethical principles to building services engineering projects, including the secure use of data and information
• Plan, undertake and review their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD to improve performance