Job Details

As a Building Services Engineer degree apprentice, AWE will first teach you the fundamental scientific principles that support mechanical and electrical building services. Following this, you’ll explore in more depth how to operate and control heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. In the final year, the focus will be on sustainability: the dynamic thermal performance of buildings, energy resources, combined heat and power, wind power generation, and lighting and electrical systems.

The programme includes:

• Part-time day release – apprentices attend university once a week
• Formal lectures, study guides, course notes, directed reading, class tutorials, assignments, small group projects, workshops, and laboratories
• Assessment of the academic element of this apprenticeship through coursework, exams, and timed assessments
• Employer-focused contextual content

You’ll take part in a variety of design projects that simulate a working environment, using computer modelling techniques to optimise and refine your design proposals, as well as conducting laboratory and workshop experiments.

This role may appeal to you if you enjoy:

• Understanding how things work and improving them
• Solving problems in different ways
• Working with Control Systems (coding Raspberry Pi/Arduino, hacking consumer electronics, small audio electronic projects, etc.)
• Working with Mechanical Assemblies (car/bike/clock maintenance, restoration, and modification, etc.)
• Working with Electrical Systems (home electrical maintenance, changing sockets/light fittings, vehicle electrical systems)
• Learning and improving practical applications
• Applying engineering principles to real-life scenarios

Alongside these benefits you will get the opportunity to learn from some of the top leaders in their field whilst helping AWE to continue to deliver national nuclear security, threat reduction and counter-terrorism solutions.

• Applicants must be aged 18 or over, as of 31 August 2026 due to security clearance requirements
• You must be a British National to apply for a role with AWE

Plus one of the following:

• A Level BBC must include Maths and a science in either Chemistry or Physics (UCAS points 112) or T-level (Merit or above) in Construction: Design, Surveying And Planning. (UCAS points: 120) or BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDM in an Engineering subject area, with a minimum of merit in Mathematics and Further Mathematics (UCAS points: 128) or BTEC Level 3 National Diploma D*D* in an Engineering subject area, with a minimum of merit in Mathematics and Further Mathematics. (UCAS points: 112)

This vacancy will close on the 11 January 2026, but AWE will review applications as they come in — so they strongly encourage you to apply early. AWE want you to shine in your application process which is designed to be fair and transparent. So they've kept it simple with a three-step process: