Groundworks Apprenticeship
KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.
London (NW10 6DZ)
Closes on Friday 5 September 2025
Posted on 25 July 2025
Contents
Summary
The opportunity to start a career within construction, with a recognised company working on iconic jobs such as Canary Wharf. As an apprentice, you will be on a development plan and a career mentor to help your progression throughout your apprenticeship. We offer a competitive salary, 20 days annual leave & more CSCS CARD REQUIRED.
- Wage
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£31,000 a year
- Training course
- Groundworker (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday; 7.30am- 5.30pm
(Breaks to be confirmed).
45 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 November 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
As an apprentice groundworker, your time will be split between working outdoors on site with an experienced tradesperson learning from their years of expertise and college based study that will leave you with the essential industry qualification. It takes time to learn the quality and skills necessary to be the best and we are looking for candidates
who are willing to commit the time needed to achieve the best
This will involve:
- Conforming to general health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Ground working – marking out and digging shallow trenches for foundations and drains
- Form working – putting up or dismantling the shuttering that holds setting concrete in place
- Installing and testing drainage and ducting
- Install ironworks relating to access covers and frames, and gully grates and frames including preparatory brickwork
- Concreting – layering and smoothing concrete for foundations, floors and beams
- Using and maintaining power tools and equipment (including compactor plates, boning rods, portable power
tools, levels, straight edges, lines, pins and laser equipment) - Operating equipment on site in a safe manner
Where you'll work
Old Oak Common Depot
Old Oak Common Lane
London
NW10 6DZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON COLLEGE
Training course
Groundworker (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
Training schedule
Groundworker Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard:
- You will work on one of our 'live' projects and receive training from a recognised provider either one day a week or on a block release
- Functional Skills maths and English (if required)
More training information
- CSCS card required
- If you do not have a CSCS card, your application will be unsuccessful
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Candidates need to have a CSCS card.
About this employer
Kilnbridge has a hard-earned reputation for delivering construction and civil engineering projects – particularly those with difficult or unusual challenges to resolve. Founded in 1991 by our Chairman and Founder, Dermot McDermott as a general building and civil engineering contractor, we initially undertook builders’ work packages across the Canary Wharf development and southeast London. We quickly developed into a multi-disciplinary, national engineering and construction business that currently employs more than 1,000 people. Today, Kilnbridge offers expertise in Building & Civil Engineering, Concrete Cutting and Controlled Demolition, Fire Protection and Waste Management. These key service areas are supported by our in-house capabilities in Engineering & Design, Fabrication (K FAB) and Plant and construction equipment (K PLANT). Working collaboratively with clients in a wide range of industry sectors, we capitalise fully on our teams’ in-depth knowledge, experience and skills to realise their vision. Our diverse and highly talented workforce delivers outstanding and often award-winning bespoke solutions through innovation, courage and determination. Kilnbridge proactively embraces equality, diversity and inclusion throughout the business, and has an industry leading safety culture. In March 2021 we became an employee-owned business, with the aim of safeguarding our future for the benefit of everyone who works here.
After this apprenticeship
- Once you have achieved the Level 2 qualification you will have the opportunity to progress to the next level
- Ultimately, and depending on the individual, you could advance to a supervisory or management role within the construction industry
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.
HR Department
apprenticeships@kilnbridge.com
020 7511 1888
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333851.
Apply now
Closes on Friday 5 September 2025
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