Apprenticeship training course
Building services engineering installer (level 2)
Installing large-scale environmental system components for heating and cooling industrial and commercial buildings.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 24 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£12,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Building services installer
- Building services technician
- Installation engineer
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Comply with building services engineering industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and practices.
- Identify and report hazards and risks in the workplace. Take action to mitigate hazards and risks.
- Comply with safe systems of work and apply control measures.
- Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Follow environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
- Move, lift, and handle materials.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Use and store hand tools, power tools and equipment.
- Prepare work area and complete set out requirements.
- Maintain a safe working area.
- Select materials, components, and fittings required to complete the work tasks.
- Plan order of works and carry out pre-work checks.
- Carry out pre commissioning activities for building service engineering installations.
- Fabricate system pipework including pipe bending.
- Test fabricated pipework system.
- Install pipework system, including pipework, bracketry and components of pipework systems, not including the energy source.
- Use pipework jointing techniques.
- Test installed pipework.
- Apply decommissioning practices, for example draining pipework system.
- Complete system handover activities.
- Complete a final quality inspection.
- Communicate with others verbally including internal and external customers, colleagues using sector specific terminology.
- Communicate with others in a written context including internal and external customers, colleagues using sector specific terminology.
- Interpret drawings from drawings, specifications, and system schematics.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Use information technology and digital systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and polices.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion policies.
- Work within limits of authority and escalate issues.
- Collaborate with others including customers, colleagues, internal and external stakeholders and other trades.
- Apply team working and wellbeing principles.
Full information on Building services engineering installer (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.