Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship
BIOCRAFT SOUTH WEST LIMITED
Swindon (SN6 8HU)
Closes in 16 days (Sunday 28 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 June 2026
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Summary
We are looking for an apprentice with an interest in the construction industry, to work with us towards further development within our industry. Following the PMO course, you could potentially then specialise within a trade/skill which is related to our business.
- Wage
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£16,640 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 - Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 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
Day to Day tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Assisting senior colleague with all associated works related to labouring, excavating, unloading, mixing and site clearance
- Stripping plaster and installing various damp and water proofing and plaster systems
- Installing timber, solid floors and skirting boards
- Dry lining and plastering works
- Completion of timber treatments
- Installing ventilation systems
- Installing waterproofing membrane
- Assisting with setting up and preparing work areas
- Loading and maintaining tools, equipment and company vehicles
- Assisting with the preparation of materials and protection of client property
- Maintaining a clean, safe and organised working environment
- Following company health and safety procedures at all times
- Recording work completed and assisting with site paperwork/photos
- Supporting senior technicians with customer liaison on site
- Assisting with the erection of dust protection and temporary screening
- Learning to use specialist tools and equipment safely
- Attending training courses and toolbox talks as required
- Work will be carried out in occupied and unoccupied properties, construction sites and external environments
Where you'll work
Apple Tree Cottage
Lower Bourton
Swindon
SN6 8HU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEW COLLEGE SWINDON
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
One day per week at New College Swindon (term time only).
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 2)
- maths (grade 2)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Labour intensive work
- Able to retain instructions
- Willingness to learn
Other requirements
Candidates must have a strong work ethic with the ability to work a physically demanding job, able to work at heights and in confined spaces. A willingness to learn and ability to retain information and reflect on learning in order to use initiative and be able to complete appropriate tasks independently. You will be working with colleagues in residential clients’ homes, and so they will need to be able to interact professionally with others and excellent punctuality.
We need a candidate who can drive and has their own vehicle.
You will need to make your own way to work each morning. This may be our office (SN6), but usually we get our junior team members to travel to the home of one of our senior technicians (one based in Wroughton, one based in west Swindon), as they will then accompany them to the job location from there. However, we tend to work out the most efficient travel arrangements based on the job location. We work across a large area within 1-1.5 hours radius of Swindon, i.e. Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire. Our on site working hours are 8am - 4pm, therefore this could require meeting colleagues at 6:45-7:00am in order to arrive to site by 8:00am. Travel time is not paid.
Candidates will be required to work a trial following a successful interview, and so will need to be willing to undertake this as part of the process.
About this employer
Biocraft South West Ltd is a leading specialist contractor providing damp proofing,
waterproofing, timber preservation and home ventilation services. Established in 2012, we
provide a range of property services to both the public and private sector as well as commercial
buildings and listed properties. As a result of our continued success and to aid with future plans
we are now have an exciting opportunity for a trainee technician who is motivated, practical and
eager to train
After this apprenticeship
Following the PMO course, you could potentially then specialise within a trade/skill which is related to our business, e.g. Level 2 Plastering, or PCA training as Damp and Remedial Treatments Technician.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEW COLLEGE SWINDON
Erin Foye
erin.foye@newcollege.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000036615.
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Closes in 16 days (Sunday 28 June 2026 at 11:59pm)