Maintenance Apprentice

COMPASS SPON STREET MANAGEMENT LTD

COVENTRY (CV1 3LL)

Closes in 10 days (Monday 10 August 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 31 July 2026

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Summary

Become a skilled multi-trade maintenance professional, maintaining, repairing and improving buildings across diverse environments. Combining workshop training with workplace experience, you'll build the technical skills, problem-solving ability and safety awareness to keep facilities safe and operational.

• Wage:

  £12,480 to £19,827.60, depending on your age

  National Minimum Wage

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  Generous Holiday Entitlement 28 days + Bank Holidays

• Training course: Property maintenance operative (level 2)
• Hours: 5 day working week, 6 hour working days

  30 hours a week

• Start date:

  Wednesday 16 September 2026

• Duration:

  1 year 3 months

• Positions available:

  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

• Property repairs and general building maintenance
• Basic plumbing and maintenance of hot and cold water systems
• Boiler house operations
• Carpentry and joinery repairs
• Painting and decorating
• Gardening and grounds maintenance
• Simple electrical maintenance tasks
• Using digital systems to record and manage maintenance work
• Working safely and identifying potential risks and hazards

 

Where you'll work

THE ESTATE OFFICE
COMPASS COURT
NORFOLK STREET
COVENTRY
CV1 3LL

Training

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

Training provider

GLP TRAINING LTD

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

The Apprenticeship will be delivered through a blended model, with Knowledge base delivered remotely.

Trade skills are developed through quarterly block release at GLP Training's City and Guilds Centers of Excellence in Worcester.

Requirements

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
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Physical fitness

Other requirements

Good written and verbal communication skills in English;
Attention to detail; Self-starter and able to take initiative;
Previous experience in DIY, house maintenance, simple plumbing and other trades.

Ability to identify issues + implement effective resolution; Focus on excellent customer outcomes; Awareness of situational risks and safety issues; Ability to use digital systems for task management; Willingness to learn & adapt to changing methodologies/technologies.

About this employer

We are a not-for-profit residents' management company (RMC) based in Spon End, Coventry. We manage one hundred leasehold flats on a development known as "Compass Court Estate". Our small team manage day-to-day maintenance of building, communal areas, gardens and the Estate's own heat network.

https://www.cssm-ltd.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

10% uplift upon apprenticeship completion

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

This apprenticeship allows the successful candidate the opportunity to gain meaningful full time employment upon completion.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

GLP TRAINING LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045057.

Apply now

Closes in 10 days (Monday 10 August 2026 at 11:59pm)