Gas Engineering Apprenticeship Standard Level 3

You will be employed as an appren­tice for at least 30 hours a week. You will have a work­place men­tor or super­vi­sor who will be respon­si­ble for your train­ing and wel­fare at work. You will attend the Gas Cen­tre at col­lege for one day a week.

Indi­vid­ual employ­ers set their own entry require­ments. How­ev­er, you will typ­i­cal­ly require 5 GCSEs at grades 4/?C or above, prefer­able includ­ing Eng­lish, maths and science. 

You may also be required to under­take a recog­nised back­ground check, equiv­a­lent to Crim­i­nal Record Bureau/​Disclosure and Bar­ring Ser­vice (CRB/DBS).

An asses­sor will vis­it you in the work­place to assess your progress against stan­dards and set SMART objectives.

In achiev­ing a pass or a dis­tinc­tion in this appren­tice­ship, you will be eli­gi­ble to apply for mem­ber­ship with the Insti­tu­tion of Gas Engi­neers and Man­agers (IGEM) pro­fes­sion­al reg­is­tra­tion as an Engi­neer­ing Tech­ni­cian (EngTech)

You will gain the fol­low­ing knowledge:

• Cur­rent Health, Safe­ty and Envi­ron­men­tal leg­is­la­tion and reg­u­la­tions applic­a­ble to work in the gas industry.
• Safe gas and elec­tri­cal instal­la­tion, com­mis­sion­ing, decom­mis­sion­ing and/​or ongo­ing ser­vice and repair pro­ce­dures of gas instal­la­tions and appli­ances need­ed to estab­lish the safe oper­a­tion of the equip­ment and instal­la­tion in accor­dance with indus­try standards.
• Gas and elec­tri­cal the­o­ries and pro­ce­dures involved in the prac­ti­cal instal­la­tion, com­mis­sion­ing, decom­mis­sion­ing and/​or ongo­ing ser­vice and repair of gas instal­la­tions, appli­ances and asso­ci­at­ed equipment.