Property Maintenance Apprentice

Are you ready to kick-start your career in property maintenance with one of the UK’s leading housing providers? Then join Hyde Housing as a Property Maintenance Apprentice and gain hands-on experience across a wide range of essential trades while working towards your Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship.

Wage

£25,000 a year
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Salary subject to an increase on 31st July 2026
A Discretionary annual bonus scheme is available dependent on performance.

Training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Hours

8.30am to 5pm Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 4pm on Friday, including one day at Chichester College.
39 hours a week

Start date

Friday 4 September 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

3

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you will learn:

• How to learn and develop the skills and knowledge in property maintenance whilst working in the field alongside experienced colleagues.
• A broad range of fundamental trade skills, including carpentry, joinery, plumbing, plastering and brick and block work, external works and associated finishing trades including tiling, painting, and decorating
• Building Regulations knowledge and achieving a full property maintenance qualification.

Key Responsibilities:

• To conduct routine maintenance tasks and minor planned and responsive repair works
• To support the delivery of efficient, flexible and professional repair, servicing and installation work, provide high-quality repairs and maintain resident satisfaction.
• To ensure all work supports the company’s compliance and buildings operation, including equipment, techniques and processes to prevent damage.
• To comply with company Health and Safety requirements and ensure all work meets with building safety regulations and legislation.
• Demonstrate professional representation of the company through appropriate professional behaviours.
• Apply all knowledge, behaviours and skill attributes being achieved during the apprenticeship to your role at work.
• Adhere to all Hyde Groups policies and procedures

Who you will be:

• Someone who has a positive CV showing a minimum grade 3 achieved in GCSE Math and English.
• Someone with good communication skills who may be already demonstrating their intent on wanting a career in construction from gained work experience or a trade diploma.
• Someone with a strong ability to apply themselves to physical tasks and demanding work patterns.

Where you'll work

125 Preston Road
Brighton
BN1 6AF

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

Training provider

CHICHESTER COLLEGE GROUP

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.
• 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.