Level 2 Groundworks Apprenticeship

We are offering an exciting opportunity for sensible, hardworking individuals to join our site in Derby as a Groundwork Apprentice. We are looking for applicants who are aged 18 or over, and are able to drive. For successful candidates, there is strong potential for a long-term position on our Derby site.

Requirements

• Desirable qualifications
  • GCSE in:
    • English (grade 4)
    • Maths (grade 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
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Physical fitness
• Other requirements
  • Over 18
  • Must be able to drive
  • Preferably has maths and English
  • The apprenticeship will be based outdoors and will require you to be physically fit.
  • You must be able to get to site for 7:30am every morning.
  • We are looking for individuals with an 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.
• You will receive a site safety briefing and a schedule of work for the day and be expected to work as part of a team to complete tasks set for that project.
• You will undertake a variety of tasks such as:
  • 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
• In order to work on site you will be required to sit a Health and Safety Operative test to gain your CSCS card. This will be organised by McDermotts.
• You will study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
• 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
  • Health and safety
  • Environmental health hazards
  • Basic principles of Building Information Modelling
  • The differences between traditional and modern methods of construction
  • Principles of working in confined spaces
  • Locating and excavating to expose buried utility services
  • Basic principles of drainage
• The training you receive on site from experienced workers will help you produce a portfolio of evidence for your end point assessment.