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About the Employer
We build beautiful, practical, and sustainable new homes in Shropshire. We build carefully, using traditional methods to produce houses that will last a lifetime and beyond.
Over 35 years’ of experience and we’re still hands-on developers; we don’t outsource construction, every aspect of the build, fit out, and finish is completed by us, ensuring the best possible quality for your new home.
Our team, most of whom have been with us for many years, take great pride in producing homes of exceptional quality. Their experience and professionalism is built into every Dennis Edwards home. So much so that we’ve achieved the top rating with LABC.
What You'll Do at Work
- Setting out to drawings, working from profiles, levels, and setting-out marks
- Excavating and backfilling foundations, trenches, and service runs
- Laying drainage, including manholes, inspection chambers, and soakaways
- Concreting foundations, footings, oversite slabs, and paths
- Laying kerbs, edgings, block paving, and hard standings
- Blockwork and brickwork up to damp proof course
- Installing ducting and service entries for water, electric, and telecoms
- Operating small plant, dumpers, and rollers, working towards your plant tickets
- Topsoiling, seeding, and finishing off the plot
- Working safely: risk assessments, method statements, PPE, and daily site checks
- Keeping the site tidy and looking after materials and waste
Where You'll Work
- The Mulberries
- Dudleston Heath
- Dudleston Heath
- SY129LD
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Training Provider
TELFORD COLLEGE
Training Course
Groundworker (level 2)
What You'll Learn
Course Contents
- Work safely and securely in compliance with given information, organisational policies and procedures, and current health, safety, and welfare legislation including following the procedures for working in contaminated ground
- Conform with productive working practices and completing the work in accordance with the programme of work
- Interpret and follow verbal and written work instructions from supervisors and site managers
- Access, interpret, and use drawings and specifications
- Select the required resources including tools and fixtures
- Move, handle, and store resources complying with relevant legislation & guidance
- Use and maintain power tools and equipment (including; compactor plates, boning rods, portable power tools, levels, straight edges, lines, pins, and laser equipment)
- Gauge and mix mortars and concrete by hand and by mixer
- Select and use basic setting out equipment including tape measures, levels, straight edges, lines, and pins, boning rods, and laser equipment under guidance of the supervisor
- Install, maintain, and remove temporary protection and safety arrangements for the work area relating to barriers and temporary structures, including protection, safety notices, and safety lighting
- Install and test basic drainage and ducting
- Measure, mark, cut, and install geo-membranes to stabilise soil for re-instatement and excavations
- Transport and place, then compact and finish concrete to slabs/bases, footing oversights, paths, form slab edgings including positioning reinforcement and kerbs
- Set out and lay flags, paviours, and edging to paths, driveways, and other areas
- Install ironworks relating to access covers and frames, and gully grates and frames including preparatory brickwork
- Locate and excavate to expose buried utility services using electronic location instruments
- Provide and remove temporary works including shallow excavation support (up to 1.2 metres)
- Form and reinstate excavations and surfaces to sub-grades, sub-bases, and road bases
- Prepare to, then direct and guide the movement of vehicles, plant, or machinery
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Training Schedule
- Groundworker Level 2
- Block release learning at the college
- College assessor
- Workplace mentor
Requirements
Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade C / 4)
- Maths (grade C / 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Creative
Other Requirements
- Having a full driver's licence and your own transport.
After This Apprenticeship
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Upon completion of the apprenticeship, progression into a full-time role.
Ask a Question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
- TELFORD COLLEGE
- Keely Hill-Harding
- keely.hill-harding@telfordcollege.ac.uk
- 01952 642255
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052797.
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