Property Maintenance Operative Apprentice

Summary

Richmond Hill Primary Academy is looking for an enthusiastic individual to undertake the apprenticeship in Property Maintenance Operative. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain knowledge, skills and experience working in schools on-site management.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Hours

Monday – Friday, shifts to be confirmed between the hours of 6am – 6pm. Term time plus an additional two weeks over the holidays.

37 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

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

What you’ll do at work

General duties including: 

Support the planning, preparation and delivery of property maintenance tasks in accordance with building safety regulations and legislation.
Ensuring the school site is compliant with Health and Safety regulations and completing compliance activities across the site.
Create a safe working environment by implementing the necessary control measures, through the identification, mitigation and reporting of risks and hazards, and in line with health and safety legislation, policies and procedures.
Access and utilise appropriate work plans, job sheets, specifications, drawings/diagrams, information & data sheets, taking in account factors such as regulatory requirements and legislation, performance and quality criteria, efficiency, sustainability, and the need to reduce waste.
Select, check, use and maintain tools, equipment, materials, components, compounds and parts appropriate to the task being undertaken, handling, positioning and storing these safely, and clearing away and disposing of waste safely on completion of work, and in accordance with codes of practice.
Safely isolates electrical, electronic and emergency systems to enable property maintenance operations to be performed around isolated electrical components, and the reporting of faults as required.
Perform fault diagnostics to implement a range of minor reactive or responsive plumbing and drainage repairs to a satisfactory conclusion.
Carry out preventative and corrective maintenance, minor repairs and replacement of components within water, environmental and energy management systems in accordance with current legislation, industry standards and with the manufacturers requirements.
Use carpentry and joinery skills to complete minor repairs or refurbishment to fixtures within and around properties, such as doors, windows, frames, worktops, ensuring associated fixtures and fittings are selected, installed or repaired, and working correctly.
Carry out minor plastering repairs using appropriate materials and surface finishing techniques.
Carry out remedial painting and decorating works to a range of surfaces, ensuring the appropriate and safe use of compounds, materials, tools and access equipment.
Carry out minor tiling and flooring activities or repairs using a variety of materials, tools, adhesives and sealants.
Carry out planned, responsive or temporary repairs to buildings and their immediate surroundings to make buildings safe and secure for their occupants or clients.
Communicate effectively verbally and in writing, using digital technologies to access, identify, record and report information, liaise and coordinate with other team members, and provide customer service to internal and external customers, and respecting others.
Maintain and develop competence in the property maintenance industry, recognising own levels of competence and when to escalate concerns to others, resisting the pressure to follow unsafe working practices.

Where you’ll work

Richmond Hill Primary Academy Limited Melton Road Sprotbrough
Doncaster
DN5 7SB

Training

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

College or training organisation

DN COLLEGES GROUP

Your training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

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.

Your training plan

Training will be at Doncaster College, where you will access a wide range of facilities on offer. 

Day release.

You will undertake Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 standard. 

Property maintenance operative / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

You will undertake Functional Skills for English and/or Maths if needed.

You will undertake both on and off-the-job job training by a team of industry-qualified professionals to give you the best skills, knowledge, and experience.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths/English (grade 4/C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

IT skills
Attention to detail
Problem solving skills
Logical
Initiative

Other requirements

You must be able to travel to and from work and college. Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week). The Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage guide is updated every April (ANMW): https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

About this company

At Richmond Hill Primary Academy, you will find a vibrant, nurturing, forward-thinking school with an inclusive ethos in which children’s collaborative skills are nurtured and developed. We have high expectations for all our children and aim to offer an environment in which they can all strive to achieve their best and become responsible global citizens, who actively contribute to their communities. As a founding school of the Rose Learning Trust we embody the core values of ‘collaboratively transforming futures’ working in partnership with our Trust schools and beyond to enhance provision.

https://www.richmond.doncaster.sch.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Successful completion of the apprenticeship could lead to a higher-level apprenticeship or full-time employment for the right candidate.

This apprenticeship is a great route to Site Manager positions within school settings.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DN COLLEGES GROUP

Asa Buckley

asa.buckley@don.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318082.

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