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Estates & Facilities Apprentice
Macclesfield
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This role is to gain a Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship Qualification.
You will support the Estates and Facilities Team in ensuring College buildings, facilities and grounds are safe, compliant, efficient and well maintained.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Reflect the vision, mission, aims and values of the College.
- Assist with the planning and administration of the College Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme.
- Support the monitoring and scheduling of statutory inspections and compliance activities.
- Maintain Estates and Facilities records, databases and asset registers.
- Assist with reactive maintenance requests and monitor progress through to completion.
- Support the administration of Estates and facilities management systems.
- Assist in monitoring service delivery standards and contractor performance.
- Support energy, sustainability and environmental initiatives across the College.
- Verify that contractor documentation, insurance and certification records remain current.
- Observe contractor activities and raise concerns where standards are not met.
- Support the collection of contractor quotations and procurement information.
- Assist in maintaining statutory compliance documentation including fire safety, legionella, gas, electrical and lifting equipment records.
- Assist with monitoring and tracking actions arising from audits, inspections and risk assessments.
- Support fire safety management arrangements including testing and record keeping.
- Assist with accident, incident and near miss investigations where appropriate.
- Promote a positive health and safety culture throughout the College.
- Support compliance reporting and key performance indicator monitoring.
- Assist with the processing of purchase orders and invoices.
- Attend all apprenticeship training, workshops and reviews.
- Complete assignments and evidence requirements within agreed timescales.
- Actively develop knowledge of Facilities Management, Compliance and Health & Safety legislation and best practice.
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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 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.
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This apprenticeship is black release to Macclesfield College (5 weeks with employer and 1 week in college).
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