Building Services Engineering Technician
Level 3

The broad purpose of the occupation is to bring the built environment to life by connecting up the buildings we live and work in, ensuring they meet the needs of the people, plant, and services they need to accommodate, whilst providing comfort, building safety and security and efficiency through ever increasing environmental safeguarding.

Building Services Engineering Technicians assist in the delivery of building services solutions and systems that are to be manufactured, installed, or managed and maintained, within a building. The main types of building services systems are mechanical (heating, ventilation, and cooling), electrical (power, lighting etc) and public health (water services and drainage).

In these areas, Building Services Engineering Technicians may consider:

• Safety and security, including emergency lighting, security and alarm systems, fire detection and prevention, emergency back-up systems, inclusive access, and flow through buildings for both people and equipment, including escalators and lifts.

• Efficiency and sustainability, including the capture, supply and use of energy (electrical, mechanical, and other power systems), renewable energy systems (such as solar, wind or heat pump sources), water supply and management (including plumbing and drainage), communication networks to aid integrated systems and intelligent buildings, and façade engineering.

• Comfort and control, including heating and ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration, and lighting (artificial and natural) and acoustics.

Building Services Engineering Technicians will use and apply engineering principles and techniques to prepare, produce and present building services engineering diagrams and documentation, with regard for the practical need to install and maintain equipment and systems. They will also support in technical problem solving which aid in the delivery of building services engineering solutions. 

Technicians will source, review and analyse data and information, carry out calculations, and use a range of tools and techniques, including engineering analysis software (such as CAD and Revit), and digital data modelling systems, such as Building Information Management (BIM), to aid the communication, assessment and secure management of building services engineering information.

With the need to mitigate the detrimental effects on the environment and an increased drive for sustainability, technicians will need to consider the whole life cycle of a built asset, ensuring building service engineering systems and projects align with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), respond to net-zero emissions targets and are compliant with climate change acts, and environmental and sustainability policies and legislation. 

Building Services Engineering Technicians will contribute to the planning, design, programming, project management, or delivery of engineering activities to agreed timescales and budgets, using quality systems and risk assessment procedures to monitor and manage projects and their risks. Technicians may also assist in site inspections or surveys, report progress against project plans, or check specified technical aspects of design, site or manufacturing activities. 

To contribute to building services engineering solutions by preparing, producing, and presenting engineering diagrams and documents, to engineering specifications, industry codes of practice, regulations, standards, and procedures.

To assist in the development of building services engineering solutions, by sourcing, reviewing and interpreting data and technical information, carrying out calculations and analysing the outputs.

To utilise digital technologies and techniques, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other techniques, to inform and support building service engineering solutions.

To ensure compliance with health, safety & welfare requirements, apply safe systems of work, such as Common Safety Methods (CSM), and identify hazards and mitigate risks in their own work.

To comply with relevant policies, standards, regulations, legislation, strategies, technical guidance, and codes of practice, such as Building Safety legislation and Construction Design and Management (CDM), ensuring they are interpreted correctly and communicated appropriately.

To comply with environmental policies and legislation, practice sustainable principles, and support the building services engineering projects they work on to assist in the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) and net-zero carbon emissions.

To use the quality and information management and assurance systems and processes available to plan, manage, monitor, and contribute to the delivery and implementation of building services engineering projects to specification, budget and agreed targets, respecting the need for the security of data and information.

To communicate and liaise effectively with own project team, customers, internal or external stakeholders.

To work reliably and effectively independently, and as a member of a team, taking responsibility for their own work.

To ensure compliance with equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and ethical standards.

To maintain your own learning and skills development by carrying out continuing professional development in line with professional codes of conduct and/or industry specifications and obligations.

This course is completed on a ‘Day Release’ basis meaning that you will spend one day per week during term time at college with the rest of the time spent in the workplace gaining practical experience.

You will work as part of a project team and be provided with your very own Training Portfolio when you join up to our apprenticeship programme tailor made to support you every step of the way.

Our customised ‘Training Pyramids’ outline your structured objectives and goals clearly defining the 3 key transitioning stages you will pass through, during your development.

• Level 1                 Knowledge and Understanding
• Level 2                 Application of Knowledge
• Level 3                 Responsibility and Ownership

We work nationally meaning that your on site work experience could involve you travelling or staying away from home. We strongly believe this gives you a unique and exciting opportunity to work on a variety of different projects and sets our apprenticeships apart. Don’t worry, although it can be daunting at first our experienced teams are always on hand to provide help and support. After all 79% of our site team and 32% of our office personnel started as an apprentice with us too so they understand exactly what you are going through.

Applicants will require a minimium of grades 4-9 in English, Maths, Science and 2 other subjects.