Apprenticeship training course
Low carbon heating technician (level 3)
Skilled heat pump installer.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 36 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£22,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Operate in a safe working manner by complying with health and safety legislation, approved codes of practice and guidance and applying safe working practices.
- Apply environmental and sustainability principles.
- Produce work programmes for tasks within low carbon heating and hot water industry.
- Produce risk assessments and method statements for the low carbon heating and hot water systems work.
- Install, low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test, commission and handover low carbon heating and hot water systems, including providing operational advice.
- Install electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Service, maintain, diagnose faults and rectify low carbon heating and hot water systems, including safe isolation of supply.
- Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to low carbon heating and hot water systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
- Decommission heating and hot water systems.
- Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems.
- Plan, size and select low carbon heating and hot water systems.
- Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
- Works collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
Full information on Low carbon heating technician (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.