Property Maintenance Operative (Level 2) Apprenticeship

This apprenticeship develops skilled multi-trade maintenance professionals who maintain, repair, and improve buildings across a range of environments. Combining practical workshop training with workplace experience, learners build the technical expertise, problem-solving, and safety awareness needed to keep facilities safe & operational.

Wage

£16,640 to £26,436.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training Course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Hours

Applicants must be flexible to work the following shifts as required:

• Day Shift: 9:00am to 5:00pm
• Night Shift: 10:00pm to 6:00am
• 40 hours a week

Start Date

Friday 20 November 2026

Duration

1 year 1 month

Positions Available

4

What You'll Do at Work

General Maintenance

• Assist with cleaning, polishing, and maintaining a variety of hard floor surfaces.
• Learn how to identify different flooring materials and appropriate cleaning methods.
• Support floor restoration projects across commercial and residential sites.
• Assist with stripping, sealing, polishing, and protecting floor surfaces.
• Operate floor cleaning equipment and machinery following training.
• Prepare work areas and maintain equipment to company standards.
• Load, unload, transport, and organise cleaning materials and machinery.
• Follow health and safety procedures at all times.
• Maintain a professional appearance and approach when working on client sites.
• Deliver excellent customer service and represent the company positively.
• Complete apprenticeship training and any required coursework.

Where You'll Work

11 Beavor Lane
London
W6 9AR

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

Training Provider

GLP TRAINING LTD

Training Course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

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What You'll Learn

Course Contents

• 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.