Reference Quantity: ST0155
Particulars of normal
Occupation
Fuel engineering
Occupational profile
Fuel engineering includes the secure set up, fee, decommission and the continuing service and restore of gasoline home equipment in both a home or non-domestic setting. Home equipment can embody, however should not restricted to, a spread of labor classes comparable to central heating boilers, unvented sizzling water storage, ducted air heaters, cookers, area heaters, meters, various gas, boosters, testing and purging for industrial pipework. Roles in gasoline engineering will embody explaining how installations and home equipment work, offering vitality effectivity recommendation and guaranteeing customer support excellence always. Fuel engineering operates strictly inside the necessities of well being and security laws.
Roles in gasoline engineering are bodily in nature, and will contain lifting and shifting of apparatus, working at heights and dealing in confined areas. All gasoline engineers should be registered on the Fuel Protected® Register for every equipment wherein they’re competent to undertake work on.
Candidates will usually have gained a minimal of 3-5 GCSEs (grade A-C) or equal, ideally English, arithmetic and a science or related / acceptable expertise. Particular person employers will set the choice standards for his or her apprenticeship and can embody a recognised background verify, equal to Felony Document Bureau/Disclosure and Barring Service (CRB/DBS).
Those that work inside Fuel engineering should have the core necessities under and display the technical necessities in a single setting – home or non-domestic. They should be registered on the Fuel Protected® Register for 4 home equipment.
Core Necessities – Information
- Present Well being, Security and Environmental laws and laws relevant to work within the gasoline business
- Protected gasoline and electrical set up, commissioning, decommissioning and/or ongoing service and restore procedures of gasoline installations and home equipment wanted to determine the secure operation of the tools and set up in accordance with business requirements
- Fuel and electrical theories and procedures concerned within the sensible set up, commissioning, decommissioning and/or ongoing service and restore of gasoline installations, home equipment and related tools
- Related electrical/mechanical ideas and the way they’re utilized in work processes and procedures
- Updated vitality effectivity recommendation and steerage to be given to the shopper
- Product data to have the ability to focus on and advise the shopper
- Present regulatory compliance, present Fuel Security (Set up and Use) Laws and the present Electrical energy at Work Laws
- Firm guidelines, insurance policies and procedures as outlined by the employer
Core Necessities – Abilities
- Undertake and doc rigorous danger assessments to make sure the security of all affected by the work actions
- Take private duty for sustaining security requirements and attaining job goals
- Use and keep instruments, tools and private protecting tools (PPE) in a secure and acceptable method
- Protected gasoline and electrical set up, commissioning, decommissioning and/or ongoing service and restore of gasoline installations and home equipment wanted to determine the secure operation of the tools and set up accordance with business requirements
- Work with focus and clear goal in all circumstances and places, overlaying enterprise necessities, together with lone working and safely adapt working strategies to mirror adjustments in working environments
- Work on buyer premises/property exhibiting acceptable care and respect while specializing in security
- Use a wide range of acceptable and efficient communication strategies to work together with clients and others to present/obtain info precisely, in a well timed and optimistic method with a purpose to ship the absolute best service
- Establish the place conditions or circumstances are to unsafe requirements and take acceptable actions inside your vary of competency
- Obtain particular person and staff duties which align to general work goals, be self-motivated and disciplined within the method to work actions
- Work successfully and effectively with folks from totally different trades/disciplines, backgrounds and experience to perform an exercise in a secure method, on time, to fulfill buyer expectations
- Establish, organise and use sources successfully and sustainably to finish the duty with consideration to price, high quality, security, safety and environmental impression
- Be capable to learn and observe technical documentation related to tools and set up necessities
Core Necessities – Behaviours
- Guarantee private wellbeing and the security of consumers and others is a precedence
- Be danger conscious exhibiting the will to scale back dangers by way of systematic monitoring and checking info and the strict compliance with acceptable laws and normative paperwork
- Reveal an consciousness of how the work impacts on others within the work atmosphere
- Confidently ship a well mannered, courteous, skilled service to all clients and members of the general public while safeguarding buyer welfare and recognising vulnerability, equality and variety
- Undertake Steady Skilled Improvement to boost data and abilities to take care of competence
- Recognise private {and professional} limitations and search acceptable recommendation when vital
- Show self-discipline and self-motivated method
- Train obligations in an moral method
Technical Necessities – should be accomplished in both a home or non-domestic setting finishing up service and restore and/or set up
Technical Necessities – Information
- Electrical consciousness and be capable of perform secure isolation and important electrical security checks
- Combustion, combustion evaluation, gasoline properties, carbon monoxide (CO), and varieties of burners
- Flues and air flow ideas
- The required security checks following gasoline work on an equipment (regulation 26/9)
- The vary and suitability of home equipment
- The statutory and normative documentation together with constructing laws, water laws and electrical laws
- Emergency procedures, together with gasoline escapes, report of fumes and for unsafe conditions
- A data and understanding of 4 home equipment
- System design, location, controls, flue varieties for home equipment and sensible controls
- An consciousness of inexperienced applied sciences
- The properties of Liquid Petroleum Fuel (LPG)
- An consciousness of gas storage – tanks and bottles (Liquid Petroleum Fuel – LPG)
Technical Necessities – Abilities
- Perform secure isolation important electrical security checks
- Perform flue testing
- Undertake the mandatory security checks following gasoline work on an equipment (regulation 26/9)
- Work in compliance with statutory and normative documentation together with constructing laws, water laws and electrical laws
- Entry and adjust to technical steerage, bulletins and security alerts e.g. Fuel Business Unsafe Conditions Procedures (GIUSP)
- Reveal tightness testing, purging and relight procedures on gasoline installations
- Reveal pipework installations/pipework abilities, stress and circulate/pipework sizing, meter installations
- Reveal ambient air testing/carbon monoxide/dioxide ambiance testing
- Establish gasoline security controls and show their secure operation
- Full information and keep information accordingly
- Establish faults and take the suitable motion
- Undertake the set up and/or restore and upkeep of 4 home equipment
- Reinstate following completion of works cleansing up and making good
Length
This apprenticeship will usually take 18 months.
Qualifications
Apprentices with out stage 2 English and arithmetic might want to obtain this stage previous to taking the tip level evaluation
Link to skilled registration
Registration with Fuel Protected® Register for 4 home equipment
In attaining a cross or a distinction on this apprenticeship, the profitable apprentice will probably be eligible to use for membership with the Establishment of Fuel Engineers & Managers (IGEM) skilled registration as an Engineering Technician (EngTech)
Level
This apprenticeship is stage 3
Overview date
This normal will probably be reviewed inside 3 years of approval
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