Low Carbon Heating Technician L3 Apprenticeship in Leeds

Are you ready to shape the future of sustainable energy and gain valuable skills and qualifications? We\’re offering a unique opportunity to join our team as an Apprentice Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Technician, playing a key role in delivering and maintaining low-carbon heating and hot water systems across a range of national/regional sites. Vital Energi regards our people as the most important part of our business. You\’ll be joining a company responsible for some of the most exciting energy projects in the UK delivering O&M Services, and your work will make a meaningful contribution to the UK meeting its Net Zero targets and maintaining the assets achieving this. As an Apprentice O&M Technician, you\’ll get hands-on experience working on assets delivering O&M services on live sites, whilst studying towards a nationally recognised qualification. Your day-to-day tasks will include:

Responsibilities

• Undertake planned preventative and reactive maintenance in accordance with Site Procedures
• Operate and maintain plant and equipment in a safe and controlled manner
• Preparing, installing, testing, and commissioning systems
• Performing routine service and maintenance
• Diagnosing and rectifying faults and if necessary, carrying out safe isolation procedures
• Decommission heating and hot water systems
• Decommission electrical and electrical control systems applicable to heating and hot water systems
• Communicate at all levels, through different means of communication platforms (verbal and in writing)
• Works collaboratively with colleagues, clients or stakeholders to solve problems
• This is a physically demanding role that involves manual handling and may involve lifting heavy equipment, working at height, and in confined spaces. You\’ll need to work both independently and as part of a close-knit team, liaising with site supervisors, colleagues and clients.
• 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
• 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

We encourage all of our employees to continue with their learning and there will be opportunities to work towards HNC, HND and Degree Level Apprenticeships were appropriate, upon completion of the Level 3 Apprenticeship.

Qualifications

• GCSEs in Maths and English (grade 4 or above or equivalent). Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience.
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Logical
• Initiative