Level 2 Property Maintenance Apprenticeship
EXPRESS (PROPERTY SERVICES) LTD
Bristol (BS30 9BA)
Closes in 22 days (Sunday 30 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 November 2025
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Summary
This apprenticeship provides hands-on training and practical experience for individuals starting a career in property maintenance. Apprentices spend three days a month at Greenlight Training, developing essential skills and knowledge. The remainder of the month is spent on site with the EPS, applying these skills in real working environments.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, may work evenings and weekends.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- 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
- Assisting with general repairs and maintenance across the site or building
- Checking and maintaining fixtures, fittings, and equipment
- Communicating effectively with colleagues, tenants, and clients on site
- Learning to read and follow work instructions, drawings, and specifications
- Ensuring tools and materials are prepared and stored safely
Where you'll work
26A Ellacombe Road
Longwell Green
Bristol
BS30 9BA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
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 college-based learning takes place at Greenlight Training, with three mandatory college days each month. For the remainder of the month, apprentices work on site with their employer, gaining practical, hands-on experience. You'll be working to complete the Property Maintenance Operative (Level 2) apprenticeship, including Functional Skills if required.
More training information
Once you submit your application, Greenlight will review it and invite you to attend an initial three-day assessment to evaluate your basic employability skills. If you are successful, you’ll then be referred to EPS for a two-week work trial. Following a successful trial, you may be offered a placement to begin your apprenticeship.
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
- Full Drivers License
Other requirements
Greenlight Training will contact you to invite you to a three-day initial assessment. If you are successful, you will then be referred for a two-week work trial. Following a successful trial, you will be offered an apprenticeship with EPS.
About this employer
Founded in 1999, Express Property Services (EPS) began as a small locksmith and carpentry business and has since grown into a full-service property maintenance company. Still family-run, EPS combines a personal, friendly approach with a wide range of trades, including redecorating, safety testing, and general maintenance. Serving both private and commercial clients—from individual landlords to housing associations and large companies—EPS maintains a reputation for high-quality work and reliability. Based in Longwell Green, the company operates across the South West and beyond, continually improving its services through skilled staff, modern systems, and a commitment to excellence.
After this apprenticeship
This apprenticeship provides a strong foundation for a long-term career in property maintenance and related trades, offering multiple pathways for growth.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000350159.
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Closes in 22 days (Sunday 30 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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