Property Maintenance Apprentice

KOVIA LTD

Redruth (TR15 3RD)

Closes in 17 days (Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 20 August 2025

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Summary

Kovia Ltd are offering an exciting opportunity to join their dynamic team as a Property Maintenance Operative apprentice! Gain the knowledge, skills and behaviours to kickstart your career in the construction sector.

Wage

£18,720 a year

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Pay reviewed after 6 months based on performance.

Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm onsite.

40 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 10 September 2025

Duration

2 years

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

  • Supporting senior engineers with radon monitoring in domestic and commercial properties.
  • Assisting with the installation of ventilation systems (passive and active Radon Sumps).
  • Assisting with the servicing of ventilation systems (passive and active Radon Sumps).
  • Assisting with the repairing of ventilation systems (passive and active Radon Sumps).
  • Using field software to log information, draw basic floorplans and complete compliance forms.
  • Helping with preparation and planning of repair and installation work.
  • Liaising with administrators and customers, and learning how to ensure safe working practices on site.
  • Attending structured training, including one day a week at Camborne campus.

Where you'll work

Trevenson Campus
Pool
Redruth
TR15 3RD

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

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

You will be working towards a Level 2 Property Maintenance Operative apprenticeship standard
Functional Skills in English and maths if required
You will be required to attend Cornwall College Camborne on a weekly basis as part of the apprenticeship training
You will receive on and off the job training and support from an assessor and your employer

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C)
  • Maths (grade 4/C)

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Willingness to learn
  • Positive Attitude

Other requirements

You’ll be working on site across Cornwall and must be willing to travel as part of your working day. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle would be beneficial, but not essential at the start. Your home base must be in or near Camborne.

About this employer

Kovia Ltd is a dynamic and growing statutory compliance consultancy and contractor, established in 2013. With offices in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, Kovia delivers expert services in radon mitigation, asbestos surveying, legionella risk assessment energy efficiency along with other related statutory compliance fields. Kovia is also a BOHS course provider in both asbestos and legionella. We support public and private sector clients to meet legal compliance requirements across a wide range of domestic and commercial sites in the region and complete more than 15,000 jobs per year for them currently. We are known for our technical excellence, quality and commitment to continual improvement. Our friendly, supportive team environment helps people develop and progress. The business is expanding rapidly, and this apprenticeship offers a genuine opportunity to build a long-term career in compliance engineering and inspection.

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After this apprenticeship

This apprenticeship is the first step towards becoming a Radon Engineer. With further training and experience, successful apprentices may progress to more advanced technical roles within Kovia, including Compliance Inspectors or Consultants. Ongoing development is fully supported.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CORNWALL COLLEGE

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01209 616 452

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337972.

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Closes in 17 days (Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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