(App852) Construction Property Maintenance Apprentice Level 2

About the Role

We carry out extensions, dormers, conversions, and New Builds. Completing all aspects of the work from roofing to electrics so you will gain a vast amount of experience.

What you'll do at work

• Assist with:
  • Site preparation - loading and unloading, preparing tools and materials
  • General labouring - mixing mortar, concrete, plaster, measuring and marking
  • Supporting with joinery tasks - stud walls, insulation, skirting boards, and door linings. Installing doors, windows, and flooring
  • Repairs and fixing damaged fixtures and fittings, fixing holes, basic decorating
  • Assisting with plumbing and electrical work
  • Assisting with groundworks and foundations
  • Helping with timber frame and blockwork preparation
  • Assisting with roof work, under supervision
  • Keeping sites clean and tidy
  • Assisting with snagging at completion of a project

Where you'll work

44 HIGHMOOR LANE
BRIGHOUSE
HD6 4JB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

• Training provider: CALDERDALE COLLEGE
• Training course: Property maintenance operative (level 2)

What you'll learn

• Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
• Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
• Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
• Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
• Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment, and ensuring the work area is prepared and reinstated.
• Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
• Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
• Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing, and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components, and clearing blockages.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
• Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors, and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
• Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing, and mixing materials and compounds.
• Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
• Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation, and cutting around obstacles.
• Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation, and cutting around obstacles.
• Perform planned, responsive, or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork, or landscaping.
• Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
• Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
• Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
• Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
• Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
• Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
• Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.