Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprenticeship
AWE PLC · South East · RG7 4PR
About the role
Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprentice 👷♀️✨
Ready to dive into the world of engineering that keeps critical national security facilities running smoothly? Join AWE as a Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprentice! You'll become a vital part of our Asset Engineering team, learning to maintain, improve, and ensure the safety and reliability of the complex building systems that underpin our essential operations. 💯
This isn't your average design gig! We're focused on hands-on experience with the plant and infrastructure that keep our high-hazard facilities safe, compliant, and operational throughout their lifecycle. You'll shadow seasoned engineers, gaining real-world knowledge and skills in:
- Nuclear Safety & Facility Operations: Understanding how engineering decisions directly impact safety. ☢️
- Reliability & Asset Availability: Ensuring our facilities are always ready to go. 🔋
- Building Services Performance: Mastering HVAC, ventilation (including LEV), heating, cooling, water, and electrical systems. 💡💧❄️
- Building Management & Energy: Optimizing performance and energy efficiency. ⚡
- Engineering Lifecycle: From change management and commissioning to handover and configuration control. 📜
- Maintenance & Asset Quality: Improving maintenance strategies and ensuring data integrity. 🛠️
- Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Working towards regulatory adherence and professional development (SQEP). ✅
- Specialized Systems: Getting to grips with nuclear safety equipment, environmental protection, heat exchangers, pressurised gases, and lifting equipment. ⚙️
Through a combination of structured placements, workplace experience, and an approved training provider, you'll gain the knowledge, skills, and behaviors to thrive as a Building Services Asset Engineer. 🚀 If you're passionate about engineering and want to contribute to a vital mission, this is your chance!
Key responsibilities
- Learn how to maintain, improve, and assure the safety, reliability, and availability of building systems.
- Work alongside experienced engineers to ensure building services plant and infrastructure remain safe, reliable, compliant, and available.
- Support engineering decisions related to nuclear safety and safe facility operation.
- Understand and contribute to the performance of HVAC, ventilation, heating, cooling, water, and electrical building services.
- Assist in ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement within asset engineering.
Entry requirements
A Level in: (Chemistry or Physics (112 UCAS points) (grade Merit), Maths and English (grade Merit or above))