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Overview of the role
Installing large-scale environmental system components for heating and cooling industrial and commercial buildings.
Building services engineering installer
Reference Number: ST0065
Details of standard
1. Occupational profile
A Building Services Engineering makes buildings work. It is a specialist branch of engineering within the construction sector. Installers, install components of large-scale industrial and commercial systems such as heating, chilled water, hot water and cold water which are used for heating workplaces such as those found in industrial and commercial buildings like office blocks, factories, schools and hospitals. These engineering systems operate by moving temperature controlled water around the inside of buildings, providing heating and cooling, and utilise fossil fuels and sustainable energy systems.
Installers have a basic knowledge of the systems and how the components within systems relate to each other. They also, under close but not constant supervision:
- plan allocated work tasks to install system components;
- undertake allocated work tasks in testing system components;
- assist in pre-commission testing;
- undertake allocated work tasks in de-commissioning
Installers are able to demonstrate competence in the health and safety, communication, quality control and environmental requirements appropriate to their scope of work.
Installers are able to work within new build construction sites and existing buildings under close, but not constant, supervision in the most efficient and economical manner. They must adhere to safe working practices without endangering themselves or others.
2. Requirements Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
Knowledge |
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Working Safely |
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Working Sustainably
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Planning and Preparing
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Installing Components
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Skills |
What is required |
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Working Safely |
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Planning, Preparing and Working Sustainably
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Installing Components
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Behaviours |
What is required |
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Communicating Effectively |
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Working Effectively and Efficiently |
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Taking Responsibility |
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Working with Others |
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Continuing Personal Development |
• Maintain and enhance competence in own area. |
Working Ethically |
• Exercise responsibilities in an ethical manner. |
3. Duration
Candidates entering this apprenticeship without previous experience will normally take 24 months to demonstrate competence in the standard.
4. Qualifications
Individual employers will identify any relevant entry requirements in terms of previous qualifications, trainability tests, or other criteria. Most candidates will have English and Mathematics at level 2 and Information Communications Technology (ICT) level 1 on entry, and all will have achieved these levels by the end of the apprenticeship. Additionally, all apprentices must achieve the Level 2 Heating and Ventilating Installer qualification prior to undertaking the end-point synoptic assessment with an independent assessment organisation. This is currently under development.
English & Maths
Apprentices without level 1 English and maths will need to achieve this level and apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to take the tests for this level prior to taking the end-point assessment. For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimum requirement is Entry Level 3. A British Sign Language (BSL) qualification is an alternative to the English qualification for those whose primary language is BSL
Level
This is a level 2 Apprenticeship
Review date
This standard will be reviewed in 3 years
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