Gas engineer courses in Hull

Start with plumbing at Hull College

Hull College runs a one-year, full-time Level 3 plumbing course at its Queen's Gardens campus, for students who've completed Level 2. It covers advanced plumbing and heating systems, fault-finding and the electrical principles behind heating controls.

A plumbing qualification doesn't let you work on gas, but it's the usual foundation for gas training.

Qualifying in gas

The usual route is the Level 3 Gas Engineering Operative apprenticeship with an employer. Adults changing career more often take a managed learning programme with supervised site work, followed by ACS assessments. Then you register with Gas Safe.

We couldn't confirm a gas apprenticeship provider in Hull itself. Ask Hull College and local heating firms what's running, and check any private training centre carefully before paying.

Work in Hull

Hull City Council and housing associations manage a large stock of homes, and their contractors carry out thousands of gas safety checks and services a year. Private landlords add more. Many new engineers start on that planned work, then move into installations and repairs.

Engineers who learn to deal with scale, from descaling plate heat exchangers to fitting the right scale reducers, are always in demand here.

Extra skills

Once you're registered, adding F-Gas certification opens up air conditioning and air-to-air heat pumps. Joining or working for an MCS certified firm lets you fit heat pumps paid for by the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. With semis and bungalows across Hull's suburbs and villages, heat pump work is growing.