Property Maintenance Apprentice
C.G. FRY AND SON LIMITED
Dorset (DT2 9AW)
Closes on Friday 14 August 2026
Posted on 19 June 2026
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Summary
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Property Maintenance Apprentice to join our growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is eager to begin or further develop a long-term career in the construction industry. Working alongside experienced and skilled professionals, you will gain practical, hands-on experience.
- Wage
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£17,680 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 inclusive, likely to be working between 07:30 and 16:30
42 hours 30 minutes 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
- Assisting with general property repairs, maintenance and improvement works
- Learning basic carpentry, plumbing, decorating, tiling and patch plastering skills
- Carrying out routine inspections and identifying maintenance issues
- Using hand and power tools safely and effectively
- Helping to prepare work areas and maintain a safe, clean and organised working environment
- Supporting the team in completing maintenance tasks to a high standard and within agreed timescales
- Working with customers, tenants and colleagues in a professional and courteous manner
Where you'll work
Litton Cheney
Dorchester
Dorset
DT2 9AW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
YEOVIL COLLEGE
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
- Practical on-the-job training with experienced property maintenance professionals
- Off-the-job training delivered by the training provider/college
- Regular reviews and support from your assessor and workplace mentor
- Functional Skills in English and maths (if required, depending on your existing qualifications)
More training information
- The role is based across West Dorset and South Somerset, with travel to various properties and work locations required
- Due to the nature of the role and the locations of some properties, it is preferred that applicants hold a full UK driving licence and have access to their own transport
- Applicants should be practical, reliable, willing to learn, and able to work independently as well as part of a team
- This role involves a variety of indoor and outdoor work and may require manual handling and the use of access equipment under supervision
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9 – 4 / A* - C)
- Maths (grade 9 – 4 / A* - 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Full Driving licence – with the ability to travel to sites within our operating area (South & West Dorset & Purbecks / South Somerset / even potentially East Devon).
About this employer
CG Fry & Son are a leading regional construction firm specialising in housing development and contracting and operate across the south-west. The Development team is renowned for its exceptional attention to detail, high quality design and unprecedented desire to leave behind a product and a legacy that the company, its landowner partners and local residents can be proud of for generations to come. The Contracting team work with a variety of private clients, businesses and architects to help deliver an exemplary product to their exacting requirements.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Potential opportunity of a long-term career with the company for the right candidate
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
YEOVIL COLLEGE
Pippa Rumbles
studentrecruitment@yeovil.ac.uk
01935845561
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038110.
Apply now
Closes on Friday 14 August 2026