Maintenance Technician Apprentice

This is an exciting opportunity to begin a career in building and facilities maintenance.

As a Maintenance Technician Apprentice, you will work alongside our experienced team at the ITP Aero Hucknall site, learning how to maintain and repair building fabric, mechanical services, and general facilities infrastructure.

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Wage

£20,800 a year

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Training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Hours

• Mon to Fri 8am - 4.30pm
• 40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

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Most of your apprenticeship is spent working.

You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

• Assist in the delivery of planned preventive maintenance (PPM) tasks across the site.
• Support reactive maintenance works, learning to diagnose faults and assist with repairs.
• Help maintain building fabric including doors, windows, partitions, flooring, and ceilings.
• Assist with basic plumbing, drainage, and mechanical plant maintenance under supervision.
• Shadow experienced engineers on HVAC, compressed air, and general building services tasks.
• Complete job records, permits to work, and maintenance logs with guidance.
• Develop knowledge of health and safety regulations applicable to maintenance activities.
• Keep tools and equipment clean, organised, and in good working order.
• Attend college or off-site training as required by the apprenticeship programme.
• Build working relationships with client staff and represent Serveo Industria professionally.

Where you'll work

Dorey Way
Hucknall
Nottingham
NG15 6YG

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Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE

Training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
• Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
• Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
• Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
• Uses safe working practices when carrying out property maintenance tasks including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment and ensuring work area is prepared and reinstated.
• Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
• Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
• Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to plumbing systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components and clearing blockages.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to external drainage systems, including clearing blockages and replacing components.
• Perform maintenance and repairs to environmental and energy management systems, including fault identification, safe isolation of supply, replacing components.
• Use carpentry and joinery skills to perform repairs to windows, doors and glazing units, and their associated fittings.
• Perform repairs to plastered surfaces, including surface preparation, fixing and mixing materials and compounds.
• Use painting and decorating skills to prepare surfaces for decoration, apply paint using brushes and rollers, and complete sealing activities using gun appliances.
• Perform tiling repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
• Perform flooring repairs, including setting out, surface preparation and cutting around obstacles.
• Perform planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings or their immediate surroundings, attending to minor defects within either masonry, roofing, fencing or railing, groundwork or landscaping.
• Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
• Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
• Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
• Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
• Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
• Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
• Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.