Trainee Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship
PKL GROUP (UK) LIMITED
Gloucestershire (GL52 7DQ)
Closes in 12 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 July 2025
Contents
Summary
You will learn and obtain experience in the fundamentals of modular unit maintenance, unit conditions and quality. You will understand the mechanism of our units, including electrical, plumbing, external repairs, flooring as well as providing first and immediate response to fault finding, whilst maximising quality and cost effectiveness.
- Wage
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£14,133.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 9 months
- Positions available
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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
Throughout the duration of the apprenticeship, you will be taught, and put into practice, a variety of skills in maintenance which will be key for a role within our operations department here at PKL. Your apprenticeship will last for 21 months, during which time you will rotate across the refurb and quay to gain the relevant skillset to excel.
What will you be doing?
- Be a champion of brand standards
- Contribute to morning briefings with team members
- Undertake refurbishment work to Portable Buildings including roofing, flooring, carpentry, wall skinning, painting and maintenance
- Other associated maintenance works required to doors, windows, hatches, drainpipes, vents and general structural works to Portable Buildings
- Review drawings
Subject to aspiration, performance and business requirement, you may have the opportunity to progress into a full-time position upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Where appropriate, you may also have the opportunity to experience business functions beyond Refurb—such as Kit Heaven and PSD to gain a well-rounded understanding of our operations.
Regular time will be set aside for self-reflection, performance reviews, and one-to-one meetings with your manager.
Where you'll work
Stella Way Bishops Cleeve Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL52 7DQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLOUCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE
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.
Training schedule
1 day per week at college and 4 days within our business - PKL Group Ltd over the course of 18 months plus 3 months end point assessment to achieve a Level 2 in Property Maintenance
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A*-C or 9-4)
- Maths (grade A*-C or 9-4)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Lowe Corp Europe, inclusive of Lowe Rental and PKL Group (UK) Ltd, is the world’s leading refrigeration, commercial catering equipment and Portable Kitchen supplier to major food exhibitions, sporting events and retailers across the globe; from the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix to Glastonbury, we provide high quality rental solutions to help our clients entertain and delight their customers. With over 40 years’ experience, our unique culture is built on people, from motivating and developing our highly talented team, to truly listening to and delivering against our clients’ needs. Beijing to Boston, Berlin to Belfast, we are an entrepreneurial organisation and take pride in our ability to provide innovative products and services to our impressive client-base.
Company benefits
Private Medical Insurance Employee Assistance Programme 23 days holidays, plus stats, totalling 31 days holiday per year (Jan – Dec) increasing with tenure Fully stocked fridges for breakfast and lunch Fresh fruit delivery on a Monday
After this apprenticeship
- Subject to aspiration, performance and business requirement, you may have the opportunity to progress into a full-time position upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PKL GROUP (UK) LIMITED
Megan Hedges
megan.hedges@pkl.co.uk
+44 1242 663137
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334053.
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Closes in 12 days (Monday 11 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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