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Types of Apprenticeships

• Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care
• Arts, Media and Publishing
• Business, Administration and Law
• Construction, Planning and the Built Environment
• Education and Training
• Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies
  • Building Products Occupations
  • Bus and Coach Engineering and Maintenance
  • Advanced Engineering Construction
  • Building Services Engineering Technology
  • Ceramics Manufacturing
  • Combined Manufacturing Processes
  • Domestic Heating
  • Driving Goods Vehicles
  • Engineering Construction
  • Engineering Manufacture (Craft and Technician)
  • Engineering Manufacture (Operator & Semi Skilled)
  • Engineering Manufacture (Senior Technician)
  • Extractives and Mineral Processing Occupations
  • Food and Drink
  • Furniture, Furnishing and Interiors
  • Glass Industry
  • Heating and Ventilation
  • Improving Operational Performance
  • Jewellery Silversmithing and Allied Trades
  • Laboratory and Science Technicians
  • Marine Industry
  • Metal Processing
  • Nuclear Decommissioning
  • Nuclear Working
  • Passenger Carrying Vehicle Driving (Bus and Coach)
  • Polymer Processing Operations
  • Print and Printed Packaging
  • Production of Coatings
  • Process Manufacturing
  • Rail Engineering (Track)
  • Rail Infrastructure Engineering
  • Rail Services
  • Rail Traction and Rolling Stock Engineering
  • Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
  • Sea Fishing
  • Signmaking
  • Sustainable Resource Management
  • The Gas Industry
  • The Power Industry
  • Traffic Office
  • Vehicle Body and Paint
  • Vehicle Fitting
  • Vehicle Maintenance and Repair
  • Vehicle Parts
  • Water Industry
• Health, Public Services and Care
• Information and Communication Technology
• Leisure, Travel and Tourism
• Retail and Commercial Enterprise

The Gas Industry

The Gas Industry Intermediate Level and Advanced Level Apprenticeships cover a range of job roles in the industry. They enable you to train to work in the installation, service and repair of domestic gas appliances.

These appliances could include boilers, cookers, central heating systems and fires. Gas installation/service technicians are trained to connect appliances to gas supplies and ensure that everything’s safe, and deal with leaks according to strict safety requirements.

As an apprentice, you’ll assist a gas engineer and learn how to install and maintain gas appliances, working towards registration on the Gas Safe Register – a requirement for anyone performing work on gas appliances. The Apprenticeship also covers other aspects of the job, such as systems design, customer service, tools and materials.

On the Advanced Level Apprenticeship, you’ll learn to work on more complex systems. Advanced Level apprentices will have the option to follow the emergency services path, learning to respond to an emergency, assess the situation and make the necessary repairs.

The Intermediate Level Apprenticeship also provides opportunities to work on the national transmission system that transports gas across the country from “beach to burner”. You could learn the skills and knowledge required to lay and maintain gas mains and service pipes.

As well as technical ability, you need to be good with people, who will want to feel that everything is being done safely. You’ll also need some computer skills, because safety and maintenance records must be kept up-to-date.

Apprenticeships are the ideal way into this industry because of their technical content and all the safety requirements of the job – there’s no room for mistakes.

Job Roles

Intermediate Level Apprenticeship

• Gas Mainlayer - Self Lay
• Gas Mainlayer - Distribution
• Gas Mainlayer - Repair and Maintenance
• Gas Servicelayer - Self Lay
• Gas Servicelayer - Distribution
• Gas Servicelayer - Repair and Maintenance

Advanced Level Apprenticeship

• Gas Installation & Maintenance Engineer
• Gas Installation Engineer
• Gas Service Engineer
• First Call Operative

Last Updated: 16/01/2012