Apprentice Groundworkers
HAB NORTHERN LTD
STOCKTON ON TEES (TS16 0QH)
Closes in 14 days (Monday 28 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 14 July 2025
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Summary
The apprentice will engage in a variety of physical tasks to prepare construction sites and lay the groundwork for building projects. Working in a squad who will invest time training & supporting the apprentice. Understand health & safety skills and awareness for site work, ensuring safe working practices and site maintenance.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Groundworker (level 2)
- Hours
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Working hours will vary depending on site but will be 7.30am- 4pm, 30 minutes lunch break unpaid.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 4 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Clearing and preparing the site
- Removing vegetation, debris, and obstacles to create a clear workspace
- Digging trenches
- Excavating for foundations, drainage pipes, and utility lines
- Setting up temporary structures
- Installing safety barriers, signage, and lighting
- Constructing and dismantling temporary structures (formwork) to hold concrete in place
- Installing drainage systems
- Laying pipes, channels, and other components to manage water flow
- Preparing footings
- Ensuring a solid base for foundations by leveling and compacting the ground
- Laying, leveling, and finishing concrete for foundations, floors, and other structures
- Steel fixing
- Bending and installing steel reinforcement bars in concrete structures
- Installing edging stones and channels for roads and pathways
- Constructing roads and footpaths
- Building and resurfacing roadways and walkways
- Operating machinery
- Using tools like plate compactors and small plant machinery
- Maintaining tools and equipment
- Ensuring tools and machinery are in good working order
- Keeping the site clean, tidy, and safe
- Adhering to health and safety regulations and company policies
Where you'll work
EAGLESCLIFFE
STOCKTON ON TEES
TS16 0QH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Your training course
Groundworker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Work safely and securely in compliance with given information, organisational policies and procedures, and current health, safety and welfare legislation including following the procedures for working in contaminated ground
- Conform with productive working practices and completing the work in accordance with the programme of work
- Interpret and follow verbal and written work instructions from supervisors and site managers
- Access, interpret and use drawings and specifications
- Select the required resources including tools and fixtures
- Move, handle and store resources complying with relevant legislation & guidance
- Use and maintain power tools and equipment (including;. compactor plates, boning rods, portable power tools, levels, straight edges, lines, pins and laser equipment)
- Gauge and mix mortars and concrete by hand and by mixer
- Select and use basic setting out equipment including tape measures, levels, straight edges, lines and pins, boning rods and laser equipment under guidance of the supervisor
- Install, maintain and remove temporary protection and safety arrangements for the work area relating to barriers and temporary structures, including protection, safety notices and safety lighting
- Install and test basic drainage and ducting
- Measure, mark, cut and install geo-membranes to stabilise soil for re-instatement and excavations
- Transport and place, then compact and finish concrete to slabs/bases, footing oversights, paths, form slab edgings including positioning reinforcement and kerbs
- Set out and lay flags, paviours and edging to paths, driveways and other areas
- Install ironworks relating to access covers and frames, and gully grates and frames including preparatory brickwork
- Locate and excavate to expose buried utility services using electronic location instruments
- Provide and remove temporary works including shallow excavation support (up to 1.2 metres)
- Form and reinstate excavations and surfaces to sub-grades, sub-bases and road bases
- Prepare to, then direct and guide the movement of vehicles, plant or machinery
Your training plan
Candidates will attend Derwentside College for block release
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
English & Maths (grade 4-9 (A* - 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
The applicant will be required to complete a CSCS card and Health & Safety training. Successful candidates will be required to work outdoors in all weathers, full appropriate PPE will be issued. Alcohol & drugs testing will be carried out within the workplace.
About this company
HAB Northern specialises in housing developments, managing every stage of projects from site remediation and road & sewer construction to substructures and external finishes. We have cultivated strong client relationships by consistently delivering high-quality work in a timely manner.
After this apprenticeship
- On successful completion of the apprenticeship there would be a permanent job within the organisation
- The employer will invest in further training as and when required based on the performance of the candidates
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Derwentside College.
apprenticeships@derwentside.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331579.
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