Apprentice Site Officer
E-ACT
Buckinghamshire (MK16 0BJ)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 July 2025
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Summary
E-ACT are one of the country's largest multi-academy trusts. By focusing on teaching and learning, developing inspiring curricula and embedding a culture based on their values of thinking big, doing the right thing and showing team spirit, they exist to improve academies and schools. E-ACT academies educate over 25,000 pupils across the country.
- Wage
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£15,740 a year
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Annual Wage
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years 3 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
A new and exciting opportunity to join E-Act Ousedale School in Newport Pagnell as an Apprentice Site Officer.
The purpose of this role is to learn how to provide a service to the school which consist of:
- Premises security
- Lighting
- Heating
- Cleaning
- General maintenance operation of plant
- Porter and handy person duties
You will benefit from mentorship from the existing estates team and gain a Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship.
Where you'll work
Ousedale School
The Grove
Newport Pagnell
Buckinghamshire
MK16 0BJ
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)
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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
Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9-4)
- Maths (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
- Punctual
- Supportive
- Kind
- Initiative
- Organised
- Openness
- Resilient
- Trustworthy
- Confident
- Generous
- Creative thinking
- Passionate
- Enthusiastic
Other requirements
This role requires an enhanced DBS check as it is in a school environment. You will will contracted to work for E - ACT which means you will have to complete additional onboarding as set out by them.
About this employer
E-ACT are one of the country's largest multi-academy trusts. By focusing on teaching and learning, developing inspiring curricula and embedding a culture based on their values of thinking big, doing the right thing and showing team spirit, they exist to improve academies and schools. E-ACT academies educate over 25,000 pupils across the length and breadth of England. Their team includes over 3,500 employees based across 38 academies including regional and national teams. A new and exciting opportunity to join E-Act Ousedale School in Newport Pagnell as an Apprentice Site Officer. The purpose of this role is to learn how to provide a service to the school which consist of premises security, lighting, heating, cleaning, general maintenance, operation of plant, porter and handy person duties. You will benefit from mentorship from the existing estates team and gain a Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative Apprenticeship through a day release at the Milton Keynes College Chaffron Way Campus. If you are someone that likes variety in their role and can think big, believe in doing the right thing and demonstrate a real team spirit then we’d love to hear from you
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent full-time role as an external Property Maintenance Operative with prospects to run and manage own teams of operatives as a supervisor then on to management
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334442.
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Closes in 13 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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