Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Energy Centre, St Georges Hospital Town Tooting Salary £30,074 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 01/12/2025 23:59
Building Services Engineering Apprentice
Band 2
Job overview
The Building Services Engineering Apprenticeship Programme is a structured three-year training scheme designed to develop future professionals in mechanical, electrical, and public health (MEP) disciplines. This apprenticeship provides a pathway to obtaining an HND in Building Services Engineering at London South Bank University, ensuring apprentices gain industry-relevant skills, knowledge, and experience while working towards the End-Point Assessment (EPA).
Main duties of the job
Technical Training and Competency Development
* Assist in planned and reactive maintenance of mechanical and electrical building services, ensuring operational efficiency.
* Support installation, commissioning, and fault-finding activities on systems including:
o Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC)
o Low-pressure hot water (LPHW) systems
o Electrical distribution, lighting, and power systems
o Drainage, plumbing, and water safety management (Legionella control)
o Fire detection, suppression, and life safety systems
o BMS (Building Management Systems) and energy control measures
* Conduct plant room and equipment inspections, recording meter readings and system data.
* Use hand tools, power tools, and diagnostic equipment for fault-finding and maintenance tasks.
* Work alongside experienced engineers to complete repairs, servicing, and testing of essential building systems.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000‑strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Carries out routine maintenance, inspection and non-routine repairs on a range of engineering plant and equipment.
* Carries out plant room and equipment inspections including taking readings from gauges and completes log sheets including reporting defects.
* Assists maintenance craftsmen with the less technical aspect of their work including calorifier and boiler strip downs and cleaning and drain clearance.
* Cleans and tidies plant rooms and workshops, as well as shadowing engineers and technicians to build the necessary skillset for progression.
* Records plant data and meter readings and enters onto paper log sheet.
* Prepares and uses equipment, materials and fine tools for assembly, inspection, maintenance and repairs, for example use of hand tools, electric drills, pillar drill and grinding wheels.
* Liaises with and assist other trades and specialist contractors where work requires multiple persons or multiple trades.
* Liaises with and assist other facilities staff and contractors where work involves other services such as capital works, cleaning, emergencies and mechanical isolations.
* Liaises with supervision on planning of work, work progress, state of repair, procedures, safety, equipment, spare parts and tools. Work may be interrupted by supervision to leave one job to go to another.
* Receives and communicates routine and some non-routine information, some of which requires tact and diplomacy sometimes dealing with persons with poor interpersonal skills or language difficulties, for example gaining access for maintenance or explaining work to patients and visitors.
* Carries out the work at the request of supervision or, in the absence of supervision, at the request of management. Uses initiative to carry out minor repairs or essential emergency work without being told, provided it is safe to do so. Prioritises own work during maintenance visits to community premises weekly away from base.
Person specification
Education
* Taken Maths and Physics
Experience
* Short Exposure to any projects or short term work experience
* Short Term Work Experience
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Closing date
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Shortlisting
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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