Facilities manager apprenticeship, level 4 · Register title: Facilities manager (ST0484)
Grow the facilities manager who runs your estate with confidence
The Growth and Skills Levy covers the training and assessment, and we handle the enrolment and the paperwork. Your apprentice learns fully online, applying compliance, property and asset management, contracts, budgets and projects to your own buildings, and builds a business case your organisation can use. They might be an experienced FM who learned on the job, or a supervisor ready to manage.
Approved IWFM Centre
What they'll be able to do
Three milestones, ending ready for assessment
Lead and develop people, and manage health and safety, compliance, risk and business continuity.
Manage property and assets, planned and reactive maintenance, quality, and operations against SLAs and KPIs.
Manage budgets and contracts, lead sustainability and projects, and deliver a project and business case for end point assessment.
Their learning journey
Eight themes, built around your work
Leading people in facilities
Leadership, communication, and managing conflict.
Risk, compliance and health and safety
Legislation, risk, continuity, data and cyber security.
Property and asset management
Building fabric, and reactive and planned maintenance.
Quality management
Continuous improvement, assurance, and data.
Operations
Procedures, resources, SLAs and KPIs, and root cause analysis.
Sustainability
Waste, sustainable design, and environmental impact.
Finance and contracts
Budgets, cost control and contract models.
Projects and change
Project and change management, and preparing for assessment.
Project and professional discussion
A project with a business case of up to 3,500 words and a 75-minute question session, and a 75-minute professional discussion underpinned by their portfolio. Graded fail, pass or distinction.
Every programme works the same way. They learn it, use it in your organisation, then look back at what they did and why.
Know it
Compliance, property, finance, contracts, sustainability and project management in FM.
Show it
Your buildings managed to standard, contracts held to account, and a business case made.
Live it
Leadership, integrity, and decisions they can explain.
Who you could put forward
Someone already with you, or someone new
An FM who learned on the job
Mohamed Khalid Riaz had risen from security officer to facilities manager with no formal FM training.
A school or trust site lead
Scott Stoll had practical experience and wanted the confidence to match.
A supervisor ready to manage
Someone already running part of your estate.
An FM on a large contract
Bellrock and HMRC both put staff through it with us.
You're trusting us with someone from your team. Here's how we look after them.
One trainer-coach from start to finish, who knows facilities management and gets to know your estate.
A one-to-one review every month, and a three-way review with you at the end of every theme. Nobody is guessing where they are or what's next.
Fully remote and built around the working week: live online sessions, coaching huddles and workshops, so nobody leaves site to learn. No day or block release.
What your organisation gets
An estate you can trust, led from within
An estate you can trust
Compliance, maintenance and contracts managed by someone trained across all of it.
A business case you can use
Their final project is real work for your organisation.
Your next head of estates
Leadership grown from within.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy you already pay, up to the funding band for this standard. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over.
We check eligibility before you commit to anything. We complete the enrolment, the funding agreement, and the records the rules require, in the format auditors expect.
You get one named account manager, from your first conversation to your last review. If something isn't working, you go to them, and we take it seriously.
Where it fits
Where it sits on the ladder
Estates and facilities practitioner, level 3 ›The step before this one.
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner, level 4 ›For FMs leading sustainability.
The honest answers
Questions people actually ask
At least 487 hours of off-the-job training across the programme. We convert that into hours per week around their role and agree it in writing before anyone starts.
No. It's fully online, with nothing to travel to.
See Recognition above.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy, up to £7,000. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over. We'll confirm exactly what applies before you commit.
If they move to a new employer, they can carry on their apprenticeship there. Your funding commitment from the Growth and Skills Levy ends when they leave.
Let's begin
Tell us who you'd like to back.
We'll reply within one working day. You'll know whether this programme fits them, what it costs you, and how quickly they could start. No commitment. And if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.
Together, let's go