Maintenance Assistant Apprentice

Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic Maintenance Assistant Apprentice to join our vibrant and friendly team. You will work closely with our Facilities Manager in providing a professional and comprehensive Facilities Management service to the Company.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Hours

Monday – Friday, shifts to be confirmed.

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 15 August 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

To help and support the Facilities Manager when required with the following duties:

Procurement and contract management
Building and grounds maintenance
Regularly inspect properties and document actions required to ensure desired standards are maintained
Prepare documents to put out tenders for contractors
Project management and supervising and coordinating work of contractors and maintenance staff
Commission new developments in the area of facilities/maintenance
Identify, plan and manage any required refurbishment programmes within budget
Calculating and comparing costs for required goods or services to achieve maximum value for money
Maintain accurate records of all maintenance matters, including asset registers, repairs, associated warranties and servicing records
Ensure all systems are serviced as required and kept in good repair
Managing and leading change to ensure minimum disruption to core activities
Ensuring the buildings meet health and safety requirements, environmental and fire regulations and be the company lead in these areas
Implement standardised maintenance and health and safety paperwork
Continuous improving of the existing maintenance checks/tests paperwork.
Planning the best allocation and utilisation of space and resources for new buildings, or re-organising current premises
Checking that agreed work by staff or contractors has been completed satisfactorily and following up on any deficiencies
Support with recruiting, training, managing and supervising staff involved in maintenance areas, including carrying out inductions, training, appraisals and supervisions.
Painting and decorating, general carpentry, basic electrics and basic plumbing
Take ownership in attending to emergency maintenance calls from all departments, ensuring all jobs are prioritised and completed
Ensure that all appliances, fixtures and fittings are safe to use, in accordance with Health and Safety regulations

Where you'll work

High Road
Warmsworth
Doncaster
DN4 9UX

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)

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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.

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 the Property Maintenance Operative standard.

https://skillsengland.education.gov.uk/apprenticeships/st0171-v1-1

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

You will undertake both on and off-the-job training by a team of industry-qualified professionals to give you the best skills, knowledge and experience that will help you become a maintenance assistant of the future!

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

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
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Patience
Physical fitness

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

The Holiday Inn Doncaster A1 (M) Jct. 36 is a modern hotel with open lobby and 300-year-old manor house in landscaped gardens in the quiet village of Warmsworth, three miles from Doncaster centre. The Holiday Inn® Doncaster A1 (M) Jct.36 hotel is close to the A1 (M) and M18 motorways and has ample free parking. It's a 10-minute drive to Doncaster Train Station. Doncaster Racecourse and the Yorkshire Wildlife Park are both close by. The 300-year-old manor house in the landscaped garden is a grand venue for meetings. Host conferences and banqueting events for up to 280 guests. The hotel's 102 bedrooms all feature free Wi-Fi and workspaces so you can surf the Internet or catch up on work, relax and watch TV. A pillow menu all help to make this Doncaster hotel a Yorkshire home from home.

https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/gb/en/doncaster/dsaww/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=BingMaps-_-HI-_-GB-_- (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.

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 VAC1000332342.

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