This occupation is found in the industrial and commercial contracting sector, providing installation, service and maintenance activities.
The broad purpose of this occupation is the installation of components, routine maintenance, reactive service, commissioning and decommissioning of vapour compression systems, as found in refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump systems. This is a specialist role involving planning, preparing and safely carrying out activities in process, product and space cooling. Work is carried out in a variety of applications essential for key UK business activities such as food production, product distribution, retail storage and display, transport and office climate control, manufacturing processes (e.g. petrochemical, pharmaceutical), IT/data centres and medical/healthcare services temperature and environmental control. Knowledge must be transferrable between any of the core activities of refrigeration, air conditioning or heat pumps.
This is a core and options apprenticeship. An apprentice must be trained and assessed against the core and one option. The options are:
- electrical engineering maintenance technician
- control and instrumentation engineering maintenance technician
- mechanical engineering maintenance technician
