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.

Requirements

• GCSE in: English (grade 3), Maths (grade 3)
• 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.
• Apprenticeships with Hyde Housing involve working in customers’ homes, so applicants would need to possess social skills and a strong understanding of customer satisfaction.
• Our customers cover a wide diversified range of all ages and needs.
• A driving licence would be an advantage although not essential.
• You MUST BE free from full-time education to be eligible to apply for an apprenticeship.
• You MUST BE resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years prior to the start of learning and have work authorisation for the UK.
• You MUST BE a resident in the area local to the apprenticeship opportunity or be prepared to relocate in time to start employment and study.
• You MUST BE committed to completing the full apprenticeship.
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• Patience
• Physical fitness
• Passion for trades
• Practically minded
• Theoretical
• Collaborative
• Willing to learn
• Respectful of others

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
• 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.