Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative
BPHA LIMITED
Bedfordshire (MK41 7BJ)
Closes in 6 days (Monday 29 June 2026)
Posted on 23 June 2026
Contents
Summary
Start your career making a real difference! Are you practical, versatile, and looking to build a career in property maintenance within a supportive, values-driven organisation? If you’re ready to start your career in property maintenance and make a real difference in customers’ homes, we’d love to hear from you.
- Wage
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£27,976 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Annual Salary
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday shifts TBC.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 30 August 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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5
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
What You’ll Be Doing With support and guidance, you will learn to:
- Carry out a wide range of basic repairs and maintenance tasks across multiple trades (e.g. carpentry, plumbing, decorating, and minor repairs)
- Assist with diagnosing faults and completing effective, long-lasting repairs
- Support the preparation and upkeep of properties, including voids and occupied homes
- Deliver high-quality work and maintain strong attention to detail
- Provide excellent customer service, ensuring a positive experience in customers’ homes
- Work safely at all times, following Health & Safety, environmental, and compliance standards (SHEQ)
- Use tools, equipment, and materials responsibly and to industry standards
- Assist with maintaining stock, materials, and equipment
- Communicate professionally with customers and colleagues at all levels
- Attend college and in-house training, building your skills and knowledge throughout your apprenticeship
What We’re Looking For?
We’re seeking someone who is:
- Keen to learn and committed to personal development
- Reliable, punctual, and self-motivated
- Practical with a hands-on approach to work
- Professional, courteous, and respectful when working in customers’ homes
- A strong problem-solver with attention to detail
- Able to work as part of a team and follow guidance from a mentor
Where you'll work
Bedford Heights
Manton Lane
Bedford
Bedfordshire
MK41 7BJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
- Practical, on-the-job training with an experienced mentor
- Support to achieve your Property Maintenance qualification
- Development of multi-trade skills and technical knowledge
- Experience working in a customer-focused environment
- A clear pathway for progression within the organisation Additional Information
- You will be expected to attend Milton Keynes College and workplace training sessions
- A strong commitment to health and safety, quality standards, and continuous learning is essential
- You will represent our values in everything you do
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths (grade 9-4)
- English (grade 9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team Work
- Communication
- Motivation
Other requirements
Interviews will take place on 06th July between 10:00am and 2:00pm. Please note that unfortunately no alternative interview dates can be offered, so applicants must be available within this time window.
About this employer
bpha is a leading Housing Association in the Oxford to Cambridge arc, providing high-quality, affordable homes and services. We own or manage over 19,500 properties and reinvest all income into improving homes, building new ones, and supporting communities. Our vision is to build places where people can live happily in homes they can afford, guided by value that shape everything we do.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- A role with progression routes within bpha upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE
Sonia Harris
Apprenticeships@mkcollege.ac.uk
01908 637056
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038553.
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Closes in 6 days (Monday 29 June 2026)
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