Our Apprenticeships
Our training will start you on your journey to becoming a fully qualified electrician or domestic plumber and heating technician.
Our next apprenticeship programmes will begin in Spring 2025 and Autumn 2025, with spaces still available for enrolment.
Kickstart your career
Energy is integral to the way the world works. It powers our businesses, our homes and critical infrastructure and services – like hospitals, schools and transport links.
Developing and maintaining the way energy travels and is safely used can be at the heart of your career in an important and ever-developing industry.
One of the best ways to kickstart your career is through an apprenticeship.
Our apprenticeship training will equip you with the skills, knowledge and experience required to become fully qualified electrician or domestic plumber and heating technician.
Working together with your employer, we’ll guide you through the learning process, supporting your development needs and giving you the start you need to qualify for a successful and sustainable career.
Our learners
Available apprenticeships
Our training will start you on your journey to becoming a fully qualified electrician or domestic plumber and heating technician.
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EAL 601/7345/2 - Level 3 Diploma Electrotechnical Qualification
Duration: 42 months excluding EPA
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Rated Good by Ofsted in 2022
“Apprentices benefit from well-planned and motivational lessons that are taught by skilled staff.”
“They develop new knowledge and skills which enable them quickly to become proficient and valued employees.”
Interested in hiring an apprentice?
Did you know most apprenticeships are either 100% or 95% government funded? Allowing you to grow your business at little or no cost.
We are pleased to inform you that our next apprenticeship programs in Electrical and Heating & Plumbing will begin in Spring 2025 and Autumn 2025, with spaces still available for enrolment.
For further details about your responsibilities as an employer of an apprentice - such as cost implications, appointing a mentor, and guidance for levy and non-levy businesses, please feel free to contact us at apprentices@oea.training or call us on 01480 702 555.
If you are not currently employing an apprentice but are open to the idea, we would be delighted to hear from you. We regularly receive applications from individuals eager to begin an apprenticeship who are actively seeking employers.
Our philosophy
At our Energy Academies, learning is about much more than simply imparting knowledge. We believe that it's vital to provide individual support for every student who learns and trains with us.
- We encourage our students to develop their social skills and give them room for personal development
- We encourage our students to strive towards meaningful goals and support them as they solve the problems they encounter so that they gain increased levels of autonomy
- Our philosophy is applied to all levels of our teaching plan. Students are encouraged to get involved in designing the way that they are taught.
- In short, we encourage our students to develop their own personality and to discover their own individual paths.
Our Energy Academies
Our Energy Academies in Oxford and East Anglia are supportive and based on constructive relationships between students, instructors and employers.
We use a variety of teaching methods to make learning fun in a relaxed atmosphere.
Our training centres main strengths lie in:
- Encouraging independent learning by using a variety of teaching methods
- Creating a supportive environment
- Providing high quality facilities and equipment
- Nurturing constructive relationships between candidates and their employers
- Academic learning through projects and exercises
- Holding various development events in our centre for students and employers
- Sharing a wealth of industry knowledge, skills and networking opportunities
