Refrigeration air-con and warmth pump engineering technician / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Training

Laws, Laws and Requirements

• Understanding of related UK and worldwide requirements, technical and environmental laws together with well being & security, environmental safety, working with stress techniques, electrical circuits and flammable substances.
• Familiarity with trade Codes of Follow and different sources of updated data and recommendation on technical security and legislative facets of their work.

Underpinning ideas

• Sound understanding of ideas of thermodynamics, fuel legal guidelines, psychrometrics, fluid movement, electrical energy, properties of refrigerant fluids and lubricants.

Information evaluation

• Skill to grasp related diagrams, calculations, instruments, charts, tables and formulae and apply them as applicable.

System fundamentals

• Understanding of the perform and operation of system parts and the way they work together in a variety of various techniques and purposes.

Sustainability

• Understanding of environmental affect of refrigerants, maximising environment friendly system efficiency and mitigation of direct and oblique carbon emissions.
• Understanding of environmental applied sciences employed within the sector reminiscent of warmth restoration, low GWP refrigerants, and different tools which can be utilized to scale back warmth achieve, cooling load or power use.

Protected working practices

• Set up, commissioning, testing, fault diagnostics, rectification of techniques, element/refrigerant suitability and choice
• Working with stress techniques and electrical circuits and techniques
• Evaluating and mitigating dangers of refrigerants together with toxicity, flammability and different potential dangers or hazards to self and most of the people.
• Decommissioning, protected restoration and disposal of kit and unsafe waste switch

Management circuit utility

• Electrical and digital management techniques setting, testing and fault discovering; and their integration with system-associated communication networks.

Mechanical operations

• Positioning, fixing, jointing and testing of pipework, electrical circuits and water circuits the place related.

Utility of mathematical ideas

• Figuring out heating and cooling masses and deciding on and balancing applicable parts and techniques for optimum efficiency and effectivity.

Sustainable system operation

• Utilizing system working parameters for environment friendly efficiency to realize measurable and sustained reductions in carbon emissions.
• Routine and reactive service and upkeep, testing, fault discovering, reporting and rectification.
• Retrofitting and retrofilling of current tools to decrease GWP refrigerants together with security, reliability and environmental issues.

Security method

• Disciplined method to assessing, managing, mitigating and avoiding danger in quite a lot of conditions to themselves, colleagues, the general public and the surroundings.

Sturdy work ethic

• Optimistic moral angle and behaviours together with reliability, willingness to take accountability. Dedication to finishing duties and talent to work as a part of a multidisciplined group.

Logical downside solver

• Employs logical pondering, and decided angle to downside fixing and technical challenges.

Give attention to high quality

• Consideration to element, following procedures, planning and preparation, verifying compliance.

Private accountability

• Takes accountability for work and interactions with colleagues, prospects, suppliers or subcontractors.

Communicates properly

• Makes use of a variety of communications strategies successfully, positively and in well timed trend.

Adaptable

• In a position to adapt to adjustments in circumstances, applied sciences, conditions and all kinds of various working environments.

Self motivated

• Willingness to be taught and dedication to skilled improvement and to making use of ideas of sound engineering and sustainability of engineering techniques.