Reference Quantity: ST0205
Particulars of normal
Occupational profile
The UK’s fuel community consists of roughly 286,000 kilometres (175,00 miles) of pipeline that provides pure fuel from on shore terminals by to 21.5 million fuel customers.
Pure fuel is a hazardous substance. The secure operation, management and upkeep of the fuel community is important to avert main loss or interruption to provides, this contains responding to and managing fuel emergency conditions to make sure potential issues of safety are managed and remediated at once. That is the idea of the Fuel Community Craftsperson’s occupation.
Fuel Community Craftsperson’s are employed by organisations authorised to move fuel all through the UK. These organisations range from very giant firms who personal and function networks that provide cities and cities throughout a large geographical space, by to small firms who personal unbiased networks that provide small housing developments with as few as 3 or 4 properties. They could possibly be instantly employed by the organisation that owns and/or manages the fuel community or by an organisation that contracts their companies to the networks.
They work as half of a bigger crew, which can embrace planners, designers, supervisors and managers. They’re usually deployed to web site in pairs or alone, depending on the exercise being undertaken. Good communication abilities are important because the might should work together with most people, businesses and emergency companies on security associated issues and likewise present technical recommendation to different stakeholders. The tasks labored on may have values in extra of £250,000.
The occupation incorporates 4 specialist roles; the principle duties and duties for every position are as follows:
Community Upkeep Craftsperson (Electrical & Instrumentation)
Answerable for sustaining the controls and techniques that measure, monitor, analyse and management the efficiency of the fuel community. This varieties a part of a management system structure that makes use of computer systems, networked information communications and graphical consumer interfaces for high-level course of supervisory administration related to the fuel transportation community. This will likely embrace the next:
- Putting in instrumentation and communications know-how related to the management of fuel inside the fuel transportation community
- Testing and sustaining instrumentation and communications techniques related to the management of fuel inside the fuel transportation community
- Responding to faults and taking motion to revive working techniques
- Monitoring and reporting on the efficiency {of electrical} and instrumentation management techniques
Community Upkeep Craftsperson (Stress Administration)
Answerable for sustaining the controls and techniques that measure, monitor and analyse pressures and flows inside the fuel community to make sure the secure and environment friendly operation of the fuel transportation community. This will likely embrace the next:
- Putting in and sustaining gear that controls flows and pressures inside the fuel transportation community in accordance with firm procedures
- Responding to faults and taking motion to revive techniques to full operation
- Monitoring and reporting on the efficiency of stress management techniques
- Endeavor corrosion monitoring of kit and pipework and supply stories
Community Pipelines Upkeep Craftsperson
Answerable for the upkeep and safety of the fuel transportation pipelines and related connecting plant and gear to make sure the secure operation of pipelines and forestall harm from third events. These are specialist upkeep companies which will embrace:
- Beneath stress drilling, move stopping, fabrication, testing, in-line inspection, re-compression and valve restore to facilitate secure and environment friendly networks
- Putting in, sustaining, monitoring and reporting on corrosion prevention techniques on pressurised fuel pipelines
- Monitoring works adjoining to excessive stress pipelines and take motion to stop harm
- Finding and marking the route of excessive stress pipelines
Emergency Response Craftsperson
Answerable for attending reported fuel emergencies to safeguard individuals and property. This contains coping with reported fuel escapes each inside and out of doors of shoppers’ properties and responding to stories of carbon monoxide leakage. This will likely embrace the next:
- Responding to stories of fuel escapes and taking motion to safeguard life and property in accordance with firm procedures
- Responding to stories of carbon monoxide and taking motion to safeguard life in accordance with firm procedures
- Putting in and changing fuel meters
- Putting in, testing and commissioning inside fuel pipework
On completion of the apprenticeship the Emergency Response Craftsperson might be required to grow to be a member of a category of individuals authorized by the Well being and Security Govt to hold out fuel work, this at the moment requires them to be registered with Fuel Protected™.
Typical job titles embrace:
Community Technician – Electrical and instrumentation, Community Craftsperson – Electrical and instrumentation, Stress Management Craftsperson, Stress Management Technician, Pipelines Technician, Pipelines Craftsperson, First Name Operative – Emergency, First Name engineer – Emergency
Apprentices should develop the core data, abilities and behaviours and abilities for the choice particular to their position.
Core Data – Fuel Community Craftsperson’s should know and perceive:
- Firm testing and commissioning procedures wanted to ascertain the situation of fuel belongings, gear, community infrastructure and the actions wanted on account of the assessments. This contains each sensible purposes and using diagnostic methods and IT techniques.
- The necessities of the Fuel Security (Administration) Rules as related to their position, this being supported by firm particular procedures concerned within the sensible set up and upkeep of fuel community belongings
- The necessities of Well being and security requirements and laws, and environmental and regulatory necessities, together with; The Well being and Security at Work Act Harmful Substances Explosive Atmospheres Rules, The ATEX Directives, The Administration of Well being and Security laws, PUWER, Working at Peak Rules, Confined areas Rules, COSHH, PPE Rules, RIDDOR, Noise at work laws, Management of Asbestos laws and the Handbook Dealing with Operations Rules.
- Firm upkeep practices, processes and procedures related to fuel community techniques, controls and gear
- Fuel engineering and mechanical or electrical rules and processes that underpin the placement, analysis and rectification of faults
- Firm insurance policies, procedures and engineering directions as specified by the employer
Core Abilities – Fuel Community Craftsperson’s have the next abilities:
- Undertake and doc danger assessments in accordance with firm procedures
- Adjust to office well being, security & environmental practices and laws, sustaining a secure and safe working atmosphere
- Observe engineering directions and firm procedures to finish duties safely and on-time
- Undertake inspection and examination of community belongings as a way to keep the secure and compliant operation of the community to make sure the integrity, security and safety of provide
- Keep and/or set up fuel engineering belongings, elements and related gear
- Set up, take a look at, purge and fee fuel community belongings
- Function powered instruments and gear, reminiscent of drills, angle grinders, brush cutters and shot blasting gear as required for community upkeep operations.
- Use authorized fuel detection gear to make sure secure atmosphere
- Use Private Protecting Tools (PPE) and security gear in accordance with producer’s directions and employer coverage
- Get hold of and analyse asset situation and efficiency info to facilitate choice making
- Establish, organise and use assets successfully to finish duties, with consideration for price, high quality, security, safety and environmental impression
- By way of danger evaluation, minimise dangers to life, property and the atmosphere when endeavor work actions
- Precisely report job info, full job stories and course of
- Liaise with fuel customers, statutory businesses and members of the general public as a way to guarantee their security
- Precisely replace firm techniques with particulars of labor undertaken
Core Behaviours
- Show a self-disciplined, self-motivated method
- Ship a well mannered, courteous skilled service to all prospects, stakeholders and members of the general public as applicable
- Display and apply a security first method
- Settle for accountability when endeavor particular person and crew duties
- Follows instruction from applicable supervision, and makes selections when required.
- High quality-focussed {and professional} in work and in private requirements
- Recognise private limitations and search recommendation from managers, consultants and specialists when required
- Accepts accountability for work undertaken
- Receptive to the wants and issues of others, particularly the place associated to range and equality
- Dedicated to finishing up and recording Continued Skilled Improvement needed to keep up and improve competence
- Workouts obligations in an moral method
- Interacts with folks and approaches work actions in a method that contributes to steady self enchancment
Particular Data and Abilities Necessities for every Function
Option1. Community Upkeep Craftsperson (Electrical & Instrumentation)
Abilities Necessities
- Apply electrical theories and rules and use gear to hold out diagnostic fault discovering procedures
- Examine, keep, restore, overhaul take a look at and calibrate instrumentation and management gear and circuits in accordance with firm procedures
- Keep web site lighting and stuck and moveable gear which can embrace mills, batteries and related gear
- Perform cable testing throughout a variety of voltages to make sure security and suitability to be used
- Set up, keep and dismantle devices, controllers, probes, attachments, cabling, meters and show models
- Configure telemetry outstation and inside techniques
- Establish and resolve information high quality and calibration points
- Check, calibrate and validate mounted and moveable analogue and digital instrumentation utilizing authorized procedures and requirements
- Restore, keep, configure and calibrate area instrumentation, communication gadgets and related gear utilized in system and course of management
- Use requirements and specs to enhance the knowledge gathered by telemetry information
- Examine and keep safety gear, telecommunication gadgets and alarm techniques
- Perform isolation procedures to make sure course of or system stability and the security of personnel when finishing up operations
- Present help to day-to-day customers of instrumentation and management techniques
- Guarantee constant and legitimate information is offered for enterprise and regulation functions
- Apply electrical abilities to put in, keep and dismantle a variety of plant, equipment and elements
Data Necessities
- The security processes to be utilized when testing for voltages throughout the vary more likely to be encountered
- The permitry necessities when sustaining or configuring telemetry techniques or endeavor works which will provoke system alarms
- Recognise the processes to be adopted as a way to establish and resolve information high quality and calibration points
- Perceive tips on how to take a look at and calibrate instrumentation and management gear in accordance with firm particular procedures
- The theories used to keep up, take a look at and calibrate electrical gear in step with firm particular procedures
- Perceive tips on how to safely apply diagnostic fault discovering rules to electrical techniques
- Establish related, firm particular procedures and know tips on how to entry such documentation
- Legislative necessities affecting electrical works and be capable of describe how such laws might have an effect on them
- The hazards that could possibly be encountered when sustaining each mounted and moveable electrical gear
- Perceive why secure isolation procedures have to be adopted when finishing up electrical or instrumentation operations
Possibility 2. Community Upkeep Craftsperson (Stress Administration)
Abilities Necessities
- Apply mechanical theories and rules for instance thermo dynamics and laminar move theories, as a way to perform diagnostic fault discovering procedures
- Perform distant stress monitoring & management on the fuel community
- Examine and monitor mechanical techniques and gear as a way to guarantee security and suitability for service
- Undertake corrosion inspection actions
- Keep, dismantle and restore mechanical gear and elements
- Check mechanical gear and techniques to make sure integrity, security and safety of provide
- Help in putting in mechanical techniques and gear
- Set up, keep and dismantle a variety of advanced plant, equipment and elements together with; stress regulators, security gadgets, system safety gadgets and monitoring gear.
- Seek the advice of design specs to analyse and calculate mechanical system parameters and rectification procedures
- Interpret plans and drawings to put in, place or re-locate mechanical gear and elements
- Check, service and restore mechanical gear as a part of deliberate preventative upkeep and/or reactive upkeep programmes
- Set up mechanical elements together with regulators, filters, valves, compressor gear
- Keep mechanical elements together with regulators, filters, valves, compressor gear
- Apply stress discount methods to help in coping with fuel emergencies
- Examine and keep situation monitoring gear
- Find and keep away from underground plant and gear previous to and while endeavor actions
- Set up signing, lighting and guarding techniques
Data Necessities
- Perceive tips on how to apply diagnostic fault discovering procedures to stress management gear
- Perceive tips on how to function the techniques and processes used for distant stress monitoring & management of the fuel community
- The permitry necessities when sustaining or configuring stress management gear
- Firm particular and legislative necessities for the inspection and monitoring of mechanical stress management techniques and gear
- The necessities for corrosion inspection actions in step with the necessities of each the stress techniques security laws and pipeline security laws
- The hazards related to engaged on techniques that include pressurised fuel
- The safety of fuel provide implications when endeavor stress management work operations
- The implications of the stress techniques security laws when assessing the suitability of kit for use
- The security processes to be adopted when planning to entry stress management gear
- the New Roads and Road Works Act necessities for the availability of signing, lighting and guarding when working in or adjoining to the general public highways
Possibility 3. Community Pipelines Upkeep Craftsperson
Abilities Necessities
- Apply non-destructive testing theories and rules as a way to perform diagnostic fault discovering procedures
- Apply the theories and rules of integrity testing, purging commissioning and de-commission of fuel pipelines and related gear and elements
- Examine, monitor, keep, dismantle, set up and restore pipeline techniques and gear for instance; move regulators, security gadgets, system safety gadgets, measurement gadgets and monitoring gear.
- Take away, restore and substitute elements of fuel transportation pipelines and related gear
- Undertake corrosion prevention actions i.e. cathodic safety techniques and monitoring, coating and wrapping
- Take motion to stop third events inflicting harm to fuel transportation pipeline belongings and gear i.e. tracing, marking, monitoring third occasion actions and responding to encroachments
- Liaise with related land house owners and third events e.g. statutory businesses and members of the general public
- Seek the advice of design specs to analyse and calculate pipeline system parameters and rectification procedures
- Interpret plans and drawings to put in, place or re-locate pipeline gear and elements
- Check, service and restore pipeline gear as a part of deliberate preventative upkeep and/or reactive upkeep programmes
- Function specialised instruments and gear for pipeline upkeep operations for instance; in line inspection instruments, harm evaluation, clever pigging, valve repairs, move stopping and underneath stress drilling.
- Find and keep away from underground plant and gear previous to and while endeavor actions
- Set up signing, lighting and guarding techniques
- Liaise with emergency companies and different statutory authorities as needed
- Organise extra assets to facilitate repairs as required
- Reply to reported pipeline fuel emergencies
Data Necessities
- The well being and security necessities when conducting operations on fuel pipeline techniques
- Perceive tips on how to take a look at and ensure the suitability and effectiveness of corrosion management measures
- The necessities for the testing and inspection of pipelines in accordance with the Pipeline security and Stress techniques security laws
- The permitry necessities when coming into or engaged on fuel operational websites
- The corporate particular necessities for the inspection of pipeline techniques and related techniques and gear, together with the frequency of such inspection
- The implications of and evaluation of injury sustained to pipelines by third occasion individuals
- The hazards and permitry necessities related to engaged on or in proximity of pipelines that include pressurised fuel
- The implications of the stress techniques security laws when assessing the suitability of kit for use
- Perceive tips on how to apply firm particular procedures when responding to reported pipeline fuel emergencies
- The New Roads and Road Works Act necessities for the availability of signing, lighting and guarding when working in or adjoining to the general public highways
Possibility 4. Emergency Response Craftsperson
Abilities Necessities
- Reply to public reported upstream fuel emergencies, together with harm to or failure of fuel mains and companies that provide a client’s premise
- Reply to public reported downstream fuel emergencies, together with reported fuel escapes inside prospects properties and stories of carbon monoxide
- Perform web site investigations in relation to fuel emergencies, in step with firm procedures
- Use fuel detection gear to establish fuel concentrations
- Interpret fuel readings to find out the security of the location
- Apply evacuation procedures the place required
- Apply the business unsafe conditions procedures
- Set up and change fuel meters and stress regulators
- Set up home pipework
- Tightness take a look at, purge, fee and de-commission home fuel pipework
- Tightness take a look at, purge, fee and de-commission non-domestic fuel pipework
- Find and keep away from underground plant and gear while endeavor actions within the freeway
- Liaise with emergency companies and different statutory authorities as needed
- Organise extra assets to facilitate repairs as required
Data Necessities
- The security actions to be utilized the place crucial fuel stage concentrations are encountered when coping with reported fuel emergencies
- The necessities of the Fuel Security (Administration) Rules when coping with reported fuel emergencies
- The necessities of the related British requirements in relation to the secure set up of fuel home equipment, pipework and meters
- Perceive tips on how to establish fuel home equipment and installations that aren’t compliant with business requirements and could also be deemed as unsafe
- Perceive tips on how to adjust to the necessities of the Fuel Trade Unsafe Conditions Process, together with RIDDOR reporting necessities
- Perceive tips on how to recognise the indicators and signs of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning
- Describe the necessities for the applying of fuel tightness testing procedures
- The New Roads and Road Works Act necessities for the availability of signing, lighting and guarding when working in or adjoining to the general public highways
- Perceive tips on how to apply appropriate management measures for the placement and avoidance of provide equipment and sub-structures previous to and while engaged on fuel community belongings
- Perceive when to liaise with emergency companies and different statutory authorities as needed
Stage:
3
Length:
Usually, 48 months
Entry necessities:
Candidates will sometimes have 3 to five GCSEs at grades A to C or 9 to 4 (together with arithmetic, English and a science), or equal {qualifications}
English/maths:
Apprentices with out stage 2 English and maths on entry might want to obtain this stage previous to finishing the tip level evaluation. For these with an schooling, well being and care plan or a legacy assertion the apprenticeships English and maths minimal requirement is Entry Stage 3 and British Signal Language qualification are an alternative choice to English {qualifications} for whom that is their main language.
Hyperlink to Skilled recognition:
Upon profitable completion of this apprenticeship, people might be eligible for membership {and professional} registration as an Engineering Technician (EngTech) with the Establishment of Fuel Engineers and Managers (IGEM)
Overview:
After 3 years
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