Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprenticeship
AWE PLC · South East · RG7 4PR
About the role
🚀 Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprentice 🚀
Ready to kickstart your engineering career in a role that's anything but generic? Join us as a Building Services Asset Engineering Degree Apprentice and dive deep into the critical world of maintaining, improving, and safeguarding the complex building systems that power AWE's vital facilities. This isn't your average design gig; we're focused on ensuring the performance, safety, and reliability of facility systems crucial for national security operations in a licensed nuclear environment. 🛡️
You'll be learning the ropes alongside seasoned engineers, gaining hands-on experience in:
- Ensuring the safety, reliability, and compliance of building services plant and infrastructure throughout their entire lifecycle. 🏗️
- Understanding how engineering decisions directly impact nuclear safety and the smooth operation of our facilities. ⚛️
- Mastering HVAC, ventilation (including LEV!), heating, cooling, water, and electrical building services performance. 🌬️❄️💧⚡
- Working with building management systems and optimizing energy performance. 💡
- Navigating engineering change, commissioning processes, and configuration control. ✍️
- Driving maintenance optimization, ensuring top-notch asset information quality, and planning for lifecycle renewal. 📈
- Upholding regulatory compliance and contributing to the development of Suitably Qualified and Experienced Persons (SQEPs). ✅
- Gaining insight into nuclear safety-related equipment and environmental protection systems within high-hazard facilities. 🌍
- Exploring key plant like heat exchangers, pressurised gases, and lifting equipment. 🏋️♀️
Through an approved provider, structured placements, and invaluable workplace experience, you'll develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become a highly skilled Building Services Asset Engineer within AWE's Asset Engineering function. Your journey will be supported every step of the way, setting you up for a rewarding career. 🌟
Apply now and become a vital part of safeguarding national security through cutting-edge engineering! 🎯
Key responsibilities
- Support experienced engineers in ensuring the safety, reliability, compliance, and availability of building services plant and infrastructure.
- Learn the processes for maintaining, improving, and assuring building systems performance.
- Understand and contribute to ensuring nuclear safety and safe facility operation.
- Study and apply principles of HVAC, water, and electrical building services performance.
- Gain insight into engineering change, maintenance optimisation, and regulatory compliance.
Entry requirements
A Level in: (Chemistry or Physics (112 UCAS points) (grade Merit), Maths and English (grade Merit or above))