Ground Worker Apprentice

D & P REINFORCEMENTS LTD

Dartmouth (TQ6 0EA)

Closes on Sunday 31 May 2026

Posted on 12 March 2026

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Summary

D&P Reinforcements Ltd are offering exciting opportunities to join their team as a Groundworker Apprentice at their site based at Noss on Dart Marina, Dartmouth. This may then lead onto the possibility of working on various sites within Devon. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain an insight into the industry and develop new skills.

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
Groundworker (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 7.30am - 4.30pm, with an hour break split into 15 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes for lunch, and 15 minutes in the afternoon. Half an hour of break time is paid.

40 hours a week

Start date

Thursday 1 October 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

Duties to include but are not limited to:

  • Excavation and Digging: Assist in digging trenches, foundations, and other excavations as required for various construction projects
  • Site Preparation: Help prepare and clear construction sites by removing debris, vegetation, or any obstructions that may hinder the building process
  • Laying Foundations: Assist with the installation of foundations, concrete slabs, and other structural groundwork components
  • Drainage Installation: Support the installation of drainage systems, including trenches for pipes and other related tasks
  • Concrete Work: Assist in mixing, pouring, and finishing concrete for footings, floors, and other construction elements
  • Paving and Roadwork: Help lay paving stones, flags, or other materials for driveways, paths, roads, and other external surfaces
  • Levelling and Surface Preparation: Use levelling tools and other equipment to ensure surfaces are even and properly prepared for construction
  • Site Safety: Follow all health and safety guidelines on-site, ensuring a safe working environment for yourself and the team
  • Advocating our Companies 5 of 5 H&S Core Values
  • Material Handling: Help load, unload, and transport materials such as bricks, stones, and sand to and from the worksite
  • Tool Operation and Maintenance: Learn to operate and maintain various construction tools and equipment, such as diggers, mixers, and compactors
  • Team Collaboration: Work closely with senior groundworkers and construction teams, taking instruction and assisting with tasks as required
  • Cleaning and Tidying: Ensure the work area is kept clean and organised, removing waste materials and ensuring tools are properly stored
  • Observing and learning how to tie and install steel reinforcing
  • Observing and learning how to install formwork pans
  • Observing and learning how to pour concrete inside the installed formwork
  • Observing and learning how to set out for foundations
  • Learning how to set out for drainage
  • Learning how to read site drawings

Where you'll work

Noss On Dart Marina
Bridge Road, Kingswear
Dartmouth
TQ6 0EA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CORNWALL COLLEGE

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

Training schedule

  • You will be working towards a Level 2 Groundworker Apprenticeship standard. If your English and maths aren't at GCSE grade C/4 or equivalent, you may also need to undertake Level 2 Functional Skills
  • You will receive support from an assessor and an apprenticeship advisor
  • You will be required to attend Bicton College on a fortnightly basis

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade D/3)
  • Maths (grade D/3)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

You will need to complete a Health and Safety test before you can go onsite. 

About this employer

D& P Reinforcements have been in business for nearly 30 years and have progressively grown over the years taking on larger and larger projects.  It is a family run business with a large emphasis on wanting to take on and nurture people that want to learn and grow with the business.

D&P Reinforcements are reinforced structure specialists that also carrying out civil engineering and groundworks projects.  This can include large projects such as hotels and apartments or smaller projects such as reinforced concrete bases, reinforced concrete retaining walls, installation of footings, drainage, kerbs.  Operating plant (dumpers, rollers, 360 excavators) as needed.

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After this apprenticeship

After completing this apprenticeship, you may be offered a full-time position at D&P, with further training this could then lead onto progressing to a Supervisory, Foreman or Site Management role.

Alternatively, you may wish to progress to a higher level apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CORNWALL COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020719.

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Closes on Sunday 31 May 2026