Apprenticeship training course
Gas network operative (level 2)
Construct, maintain and repair gas network infrastructure, to provide a reliable supply/service to domestic, commercial and industrial users.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 24 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£13,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Gas Network Team Leader
- Gas Repair Ream Leader
- Repair & Maintenance Operative
- Servicelayer Mainlayer
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Identify hazards and implement controls to reduce risks
- Interpret work instructions, engineering instructions and determine actions
- Identify and organise resources to undertake activities
- Comply with workplace health, safety & environmental policy and practice; including use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and safety equipment
- Set out signing, lighting and guarding
- Excavate holes for utility network services
- Monitor and maintain site conditions, including good housekeeping
- Identify, locate and avoid utility supply apparatus and sub-structures
- Check, maintain, operate and store equipment and tools; report faults if required
- Communicate with colleagues and/or stakeholders, for example, statutory agencies and members of the public, customers
- Use breathing apparatus
- Use gas detection equipment
- Carry out trench installation for example, sheeting, lightweight and proprietary systems
- Record information, for example job reports, time sheets
- Construct new and replacement gas services to internal and external service termination positions using a range of techniques
- Carry out squeeze off activities on gas services (low and medium pressure)
- Construct new and replacement gas mains using a range of techniques
- Carry out flow stopping on gas mains by use of squeeze off and bag stop
- Disconnect gas meters
- Repair gas assets including valves and fittings using a range of techniques
- Join materials by electro-fusion
- Join materials by butt fusion processes
- Exchange emergency control valve
- Test gas network assets at low and medium pressure
- Purge, commission and decommission gas network assets
- Apply gas network emergency procedures including the analysis of gas readings
- Apply water extraction techniques for gas mains and services
Full information on Gas network operative (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.