Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative

Role Overview

The apprentice will support the maintenance, repair, and improvement of Trust buildings and facilities, ensuring they remain safe, compliant, and fit for purpose for pupils, staff, and visitors.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What You'll Do at Work

• Assist with planned and reactive maintenance activities across Trust sites
• Carry out routine inspections of buildings, fixtures, fittings, and equipment
• Identify defects and report maintenance requirements
• Assist in plumbing inspections, water isolation, repairs to taps, traps, and associated fittings
• Support repairs to waste systems and clearing blockages
• Inspect, adjust, and repair doors, windows, and associated fittings
• Assist with glazing bead replacement and minor joinery repairs
• Prepare surfaces and carry out painting and decorating works
• Apply caulk and frame sealants
• Assist with plasterboard, plastering, and tiling repairs
• Support school site teams with day-to-day maintenance tasks
• Assist with classroom moves, furniture installation, and holiday maintenance programmes
• Support contractors working on Trust premises
• Follow Trust Health and Safety procedures and wear appropriate PPE
• Complete and log compliance checks through portal

Where You'll Work

Chesterton Community College
Gilbert Road
Cambridge
CB4 3NY

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

Training Provider

CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL 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 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, 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 while maintaining customer service.
• Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.