Property maintenance apprentice

Test Engineer - Portable Appliance Testing and Planned Preventative Maintenance

Role Overview

• Carry out Portable Appliance Testing at customer sites within London.
• Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance visits at customer sites within London.
• Occasionally assist in other departments such as installation and facilities management.

Apprenticeship Details

• Training and Work Balance:
  • Most of your apprenticeship is spent working, gaining hands-on experience.
  • Includes time away from working for specialist training to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Course Contents

• Planning and Execution:

  • Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
  • Identify and select appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.

• Compliance and Safety:

  • 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.
  • Use safe working practices, including the use of PPE, signage, barriers, access equipment, and ensuring the work area is prepared and reinstated.

• Technical Skills:

  • 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.