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Start your career in construction with a Groundworks Apprenticeship
Gain hands-on experience in excavation, drainage, foundations, and site work while working towards a recognised qualification. Learn from experienced professionals, develop valuable skills, and build a rewarding career in groundworks.
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)
- Training provider: GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Hours
- Monday to Friday. Shifts to be confirmed. 40 hours a week
Start date
- Monday 23 November 2026
Duration
- 1 year 6 months
Positions available
- 1
What you'll do at work
- Assist with excavation, digging, and preparing ground for construction
- Learn how to install drainage, pipes, and other underground services
- Assist with foundations, concrete work, and general groundworks
- Use hand tools and basic construction equipment safely
- Learn to read site plans and follow instructions from experienced workers
- Help prepare and maintain the work site
- Follow health and safety procedures at all times
- Work as part of a team alongside experienced groundworkers
- Develop practical skills while completing their apprenticeship training
Where you'll work
- 29 Middle Lane
- Trowbridge
- BA14 7LQ
What you'll learn
- 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, 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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Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
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The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Independent training provider for construction based in Bristol
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
Start as a Groundworks Apprentice and gain practical, on-site experience
- Progress to a qualified Groundworker once the apprenticeship is completed
- Develop specialist skills in drainage, concrete, foundations, and civil engineering
- Take on greater responsibility as an experienced Groundworker
- Progress into roles such as Chargehand, Supervisor, or Site Manager
- Gain additional qualifications and training to support long-term career development
Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055709.
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Closes in 22 days (Tuesday 20 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
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