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As a Groundworker Apprentice, you’ll learn essential skills to support construction projects, including preparing and levelling construction sites, laying foundations, drainage systems, and concrete, operating and maintaining tools and equipment, following health and safety protocols on-site, and working as part of a team to complete a variety of groundwork tasks.
Requirements
- GCSE in English (grade 3)
- GCSE in Maths (grade 3)
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Ability to work outdoors in all seasons and weather conditions
Responsibilities
- Work safely and securely in compliance with given information, organisational policies and procedures, and current health, safety and welfare legislation, including following procedures for working in contaminated ground.
- Conform with productive working practices and complete 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, move, handle, and store required resources including tools and fixtures, complying with relevant legislation & guidance.
- Use and maintain power tools and equipment (e.g., 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 (e.g., tape measures, levels, straight edges, lines and pins, boning rods, and laser equipment) under guidance.
- Install, maintain, and remove temporary protection and safety arrangements for the work area, including barriers, temporary structures, 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 for slabs/bases, footing oversights, paths, and 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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Benefits
- Wage: £26,436.80 a year
- Living away allowance: Travel allowance paid where appropriate
- Training course: Groundworker (level 2)
- Opportunity for further training upon completion of the apprenticeship
Application Process
- Closes on Friday 17 July 2026
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About BAM
At BAM we imagine, create, and enrich buildings and infrastructure across the UK & Ireland. For over 150 years, we have dedicated ourselves to enhancing lives by creating sustainable environments and communities where people can live, work, and thrive. Our vision is to build a sustainable tomorrow and that is why we think beyond the build and focus on the bigger impact. It is how we make the iconic buildings and infrastructure that shape our society working collaboratively with our partners. We have 6500 employees and work in Construction, Civil Engineering, Ground Engineering, Energy, Property Development, Facilities Management and Site Solutions. When you work at BAM, safety is unconditional. It comes before profit. We take responsibility for ourselves and each other, and towards society at large. Onsite, on the road, at home and at office. We are an award-winning company, positioned in the Rate My Apprenticeship Top 100 Employers to work for for a third year in a row.
BAM Nuttall Limited is a Disability Confident employer. A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition, including non-visible disabilities and conditions. You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme, provided you meet the essential requirements.
Contact
- Company: BAM NUTTALL LIMITED
- Contact: Holly Rowe
- Email: holly.rowe@bam.com
- Reference code: VAC2000035607
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