Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer

At GLP Training, our Building Services Engineering Service & Maintenance Engineer Apprenticeship is strategically designed to develop skilled professionals who ensure that building systems operate efficiently and sustainably. As an apprenticeship provider committed to excellence, we train engineers who play a pivotal role in making buildings functional and safe, focusing on a variety of industrial and commercial building services engineering systems.

A Building Services and Maintenance Engineer is fundamental in planning and executing a wide spectrum of maintenance activities. These professionals manage critical systems such as ventilation, heating, water supply, and waste management, along with effluent discharge and comprehensive drainage systems. Their expertise extends to the meticulous execution of electrical isolation, disconnection, reconnection, and reactivation, ensuring all engineering systems coordinate seamlessly and safely.

Our apprentices learn to perform planned preventative maintenance, a proactive approach that preserves the long-term integrity and efficiency of building systems. They are also skilled in conducting necessary remedial repairs to address any emergent issues promptly, thereby preventing potential disruptions in building operations.

Additionally, apprentices in this programme are trained to adeptly monitor and manage the operation of plants and equipment via sophisticated building and energy management systems. This includes optimising the performance of these systems to ensure energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness, aligning with environmental standards and sustainability goals.

Through our Building Services Engineering Service & Maintenance Engineer Apprenticeship, apprentices are equipped with the skills and knowledge to maintain high standards of building functionality and safety. They become adept at ensuring operational continuity in a variety of settings, making them invaluable assets in the maintenance engineering sector.

This course is suitable if you are currently or shortly due to manage a team of building service engineers, as well as planning and completing a range of maintenance work encompassing industrial and commercial building services engineering systems such as ventilating, heating, water supply, waste (effluent discharge) and drainage.

To see whether you’re eligible for this apprenticeship, you will need to complete a skill scan to check your knowledge prior to starting.

Entry Requirements

Down to the discretion of individual employers but typically includes:

Level 2 English and Mathematics, or equivalent (can be completed during the apprenticeship)
16 or over
Not in Full-Time Education

Knowledge

Working Safety
Working Sustainably
Planning and Preparing
Undertaking Planned and Reactive Maintenance

Skills

Managing Tasks and Communication
Mechanical & Electrical Systems
Mechanical & Electrical Testing
Planned and Reactive Maintenance
Air Conditioning and Cooling Systems
Working Safely and Customer Interaction
Waste Systems and Drainage
Water Treatment and Testing
Sustainability

Behaviours

Communicating Effectively
Working Effectively and Efficiently
Taking Responsibility
Managing Tasks
Working with Others
Working Ethically
Continuing Personal Development

As this course is varied in terms of its content, with a lot of hands-on skills as well as knowledge to be taught, we deliver with a hybrid approach. We have bays on-site at our Worcester HQ where all practical elements of the standard can be taught, demonstrated and practiced, as well as classroom space for knowledge segments. Further knowledge segments are also taught remotely with online masterclasses where you will hear from industry experts.

To make sure students are keeping up to speed with the knowledge, skills and behaviours they are learning, a structured learning and assessment plan is put in place to test core components of the course along the way. As well as this, a Record of Achievement is compiled and forms the basis of the Professional Discussion part of your End Point Assessment.

To attain the qualification, you will undergo an assessment throughout your apprenticeship, culminating into a final evaluation known as the End Point Assessment (EPA), which can get you a result of a Pass, Distinction, or Fail.

Moreover, the apprentice must have completed the following requirement prior to beginning their EPA:

Obtain a Functional Skills Qualification (if applicable).

End Point Assessment Gateway:

The Building Services Engineering EPA is administered by The Building Engineering Services Association, our designated End Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO).

The employer must be satisfied that the apprentice is consistently working at, or above, the level of the occupational standard.

Apprentices must complete the following before beginning their EPA in the standard:

The apprentice must submit a portfolio of evidence.

The apprentice must submit the gateway evidence to their EPAO, including any organisation specific policies and procedures.

End Point Assessment:

EPA's typically take about 3 months and apprentices are required to complete:

Multiple Choice Test: The apprentice answers questions in a controlled and invigilated environment. It gives them the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge mapped to this assessment method.

Interview underpinned by a portfolio of evidence: An assessor asks the apprentice questions. It gives the apprentice the chance to demonstrate the right KSB's. The apprentice can refer to their answers with evidence from their portfolio of evidence.

Observation with a professional discussion: An assessor observes the apprentice in their normal working conditions and asks relevant questions. It gives the apprentice the opportunity to demonstrate the KSBs mapped to this assessment method.

The combined score of these methods will provide an overall final grade for the apprenticeship.

APPRENTICESHIP

Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance and repair of building services, such as: ventilation, heating, water supply.

Level

3

Duration

36+ months

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Building Services Engineering Service and Maintenance Engineer

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36+ months

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