Groundworker apprenticeship

We are offering an exciting opportunity for sensible, hardworking individuals to join our production teams as a groundwork apprentice. This is a great chance to build your knowledge and experience in a sought after trade learning fundamental and transferrable practical skills whilst gaining work experience and life lessons.

Requirements

• Desirable qualifications:
  • GCSE in English (grade 4)
  • GCSE in Maths (grade 4)
• Other relevant qualifications and industry experience.
• Skills:
  • Communication skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Physical fitness
• Other requirements:
  • Must be physically fit and able to work outdoors.
  • Must be able to get to site for 7:30am every morning.
  • Excellent work ethic, motivated and willing to learn.
  • Flexibility and resilience with a positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Groundworkers are the first contractors to begin work on a construction site. They work closely with all construction trades, such as bricklayers, and plant operatives, to prepare the site ready for building works to begin.
• Receive a site safety briefing and a schedule of work for the day.
• Work as part of a team to complete tasks set for the project.
• Undertake a variety of tasks including:
  • Foundations, hard landscaping and earth works
  • Concreting
  • Traditional drainage and pipe laying
  • Benching, channelling manholes and gullies
  • Road works, laying kerbs, paving
  • Surfacing and tarmac laying
  • Utility ducting and laying
  • Use of plant/machinery
  • Steel fixing and piling
• Sit a Health and Safety Operative test to gain your CSCS card.
• 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.

Benefits

• Wage: £16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age, National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices.
• Training course: Groundworker (level 2)
• Hours: 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4:30pm.
• Start date: Monday 28 September 2023
• Duration: 1 year 2 months
• Positions available: 15
• Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training.
• Study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
• After successful completion of the apprenticeship, potential employment within the business as a groundworker.
• Potential to progress to team leader, site supervisor and beyond.
• Potential to specialise to become a machine excavator operator.
• Potential to continue education to become an engineer.

Application Process

• Closes on Tuesday 16 June 2026
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About M. Lambe Construction

• Founded in 1983, M. Lambe Construction — or Lambe's, as our friends call us — is a groundworks and civil engineering partner for forward-thinking housebuilders.
• We believe making groundworks more transparent and predictable helps housebuilders deliver more value to their customers.
• We help you eliminate risk with proactive updates, clear tenders, live site data and staged handovers.
• https://www.mlambe.co.uk/

Contact

• Training provider: SALUTEM LIMITED
• Contact: Megan Whitson
• Email: megan.whitson@salutem.co.uk
• Phone: 0121 326 1450
• Reference code: VAC1000314484