Apprenticeships with Kimpton for 2023

We’re looking for hard-working, enthusiastic and eager-to-learn candidates for this amazing opportunity to join the Kimpton team. There are two apprenticeship roles available.

1. Apprentice Commercial Building Services Installer / Craftsman

You will complete a four-year Apprenticeship Programme which includes college-based learning on block release at Salford College, (for which travel expenses will be paid) and work-based training and experience alongside our teams of engineers. A driving license is preferred but not essential.

You will have the opportunity to take your career in Building Services Engineering as far as you want to. Of the 19 people on our senior management team, 14 of them joined us as apprentices.

Requirements

Applicants will need to be at least 18 years old this year and have completed a Level 2 or 3 plumbing diploma or have similar experience gained elsewhere. A driving license is preferred but not essential.

2. Apprentice Commercial Air-Conditioning & Heat Pump Engineer

You will complete a four-year Apprenticeship Programme which includes college-based learning on block release at City of Liverpool College (for which travel expenses will be paid) and work-based training and experience alongside our teams of engineers.

You will have the opportunity to take your career in Building Services Engineering as far as you want to. Of the 19 people on our senior management team, 14 of them joined us as apprentices.

Requirements

Applicants will need to be at least 18 years old this year and have completed a plumbing diploma or have similar experience gained elsewhere. A driving license is preferred but not essential.

About Us

At Kimpton, we’ve been delivering M&E infrastructure and Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning services across Liverpool since 1963.

You can watch the company video https://youtu.be/VBe-9Xyiw1o

We have along history if recruiting and retaining apprentices and you can read some of the background to that here.

Our clients include Merseyside’s largest employers across every sector including Unilever, Walkers Crisps, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Radisson and Hilton Hotels, Kraft Heinz, Daresbury Laboratories, Liverpool Hope University and we look after the entire M&S Bank Arena – the hosts of Eurovision 2023.

We installed the entire water and gas pipe network at Liverpool One, a 1.65million sq ft open-air complex of 170 stores, bars and restaurants, cinema and hotel – one of Europe’s leading retail and leisure destinations.

We’re carrying out a £9m upgrade and refurbishment of the HVAC systems and offices throughout The Capital Building on the Strand, the largest Grade A office space in Liverpool, housing The Home Office and Crown Commercial Services.

We installed the HVAC systems for Paul McCartney when he created LIPA in 1995 and at The Philharmonic Hall on Hope Street when it was refurbished in 1994. We’ve maintained both buildings ever since.

It’s because we have always been innovators in HVAC, and this thinking continues to the present day.

For many, Heat Pump technology is new, but here at Kimpton, we installed our first heat pumps back in the 1970’s for Walkers Crisps and Golden Wonder. They were used to keep stocks of potatoes fresh and dry and were an innovative technology that would go on to save many £000’s in fuel costs and even more in carbon saving.

We have continued to be at the forefront of heat pump system design and have gained many years of expertise in their design and installation since those early days.

This culture of innovation has led to the delivery of two other UK firsts in renewable technology – we designed and installed the UK’s first tidal water source heat pumps in open sea at Plas Newydd, Anglesey for the National Trust and installed one of the UK’s first Transpired Solar Collectors with TATA steel at the SBEC Building on Deeside.