Property Maintenance Operative Apprentice
RIDGEWAY PRIMARY SCHOOL
Burntwood (WS7 4TU)
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 5 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Ridgeway Primary Academy are looking for an apprentice Property Maintenance Operative to join there team. You will learn all aspects of property maintenance working with an experienced team. You will be working towards a Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 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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37 hrs per week.
Monday to Thursday
8:30am- 4:30pm
Friday
8:30am- 4.00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
The role will include:
- Carry out routine maintenance tasks, and minor planned and responsive repair works
- Use a broad range of fundamental trade skills including: carpentry, joinery, plumbing, plastering, brick and blockwork, external works and associated finishing trades including tiling, painting, and decorating
- Operate a wide variety of hand and power tools, materials, components, fixtures and fittings,
- Ensure that working practices are compliant with health and safety requirements, and meets building safety regulations and legislation
The successful candidate will complete a Level 2 qualification in Property Maintenance. This will include 1 day of study at Walsall College per week. The broad purpose of the occupation is to conduct the general day-to-day maintenance required to keep a range of properties in a good state of repair and ensure compliance.
Primitas Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As such this post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check, references and an online check. You will also be required to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK, evidence of your qualifications and suitable references.
Where you'll work
Ridgeway Primary Academy
Grange Road
Burntwood
WS7 4TU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WALSALL 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
- One day per week at Walsall College, Green Lane Campus, to work on your apprenticeship
- One extra day per week if Functional Skills maths and English is required
Requirements
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
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Ridgeway Primary Academy is a successful 2 form entry 0 -11 years primary school in Burntwood. Our Good Ofsted rating was reconfirmed during our recent inspection in January 2022. We currently have 415 pupils on roll in the main school and a further 222 children accessing our extensive early years services: Ridgeway Rainbow Tots (providing either a morning or full day sessions for 2 year olds); Sunbeams Nursery (providing nursery education and extended care during school term time) and Sunny Days Nursery (providing care and education from 6 weeks – 5 years and open for 50 weeks of the year)
After this apprenticeship
- A full time position may be offered upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WALSALL COLLEGE
Samantha Loverock
sloverock@walsallcollege.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341746.
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Closes in 23 days (Sunday 5 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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