Plumbing - Apprenticeship Level 3

Essentials

Duration: 2 Years Full-time
Start date: 2nd September 2024
End date: 18th June 2026

Attendance at an information session is required.

Course fee: FREE (Eligibility criteria may apply)

Course Content

The plumbing course is designed to meet industry standards and provides underpinning knowledge for the workplace.

Units include:

• Understand how to organise resources within building services engineering (BSE);
• Understand and apply domestic cold water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques;
• Understand and apply domestic hot water system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques;
• Understand and apply domestic central heating system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques;
• Understand and carry out electrical work on domestic plumbing and heating systems and components;
• Understand and apply domestic sanitation system installation, commissioning, service and maintenance techniques

Meet the Apprentice

Abigail shares her experiences on what it is like to work, earn and learn with an apprenticeship.

Course Update

Please note from September 2025, all Ballymena courses are planned to move to the new Ballymena campus at Farm Lodge.

You must:

• have successfully attained a Level 2 Apprenticeship in Plumbing
• be employed or be about to take up permanent paid employment with a Northern Ireland-based company and be contracted to work a minimum of 21 hours per week (including day release/off- the-job training) with one employer.
• have the potential to successfully complete all the requirements of the appropriate Level 3 Apprenticeship Framework.
• meet any health requirements (eg colour vision) specific to the occupation of your choice.

All relevant paperwork should be uploaded to the admissions portal prior to being considered for an apprenticeship, this should include your:

• Employer response form
• Vision verification form (Electrical Installation only)
• One form of official photographic ID
• Official proof of your National Insurance number eg Letter from HMRC

To access the forms and for further details visit our Apprenticeship page 

Over 90% of students who completed this course in the last three years have successfully become fully qualified Plumbers.

Those attaining this qualification meet the entry requirements for further post-apprenticeship training opportunities in the Gas and Renewable Energy sectors.