Apprentice Facilities Co-ordinator
DCT FACILITIES MANAGEMENT (SERVICES) LIMITED
LONDON (EC4N 7BE)
Closes on Monday 31 August 2026
Posted on 28 July 2026
Contents
Summary
Working a part of the FM team learning and delivering the entire spectrum of FM services, this junior role will grow with learning. For the right candidate a junior management position with a level of accountability is possible within 3 years. Role will include general tasks such as dealing with post, printing, filing, maintenance and more.
- Wage
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£22,000 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
The pay may be negotiated and may rise after a probation period has been successfully completed.
- Training course
- Facilities services operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 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
The apprentice will learn (on-the-job) how to provide various FM services to the business, its staff and its visitors. Support the Senior Facilities Coordinators in facilitating successful and productive working relationships between all key stakeholders, end users, the wider FM team and it's service providers.
Support Senior Facilities Coordinators in acting as the interface between the core business and the FM providers, and as a filter for requests for change from both parties.
Support the development and implementation of changes to contracted services to improve service quality, which reflects best practice FM. Aid the Senior Facilities Coordinators in engendering and fostering a partnership approach with the service providers built on co-operation, close liaison, honesty and information transparency.
Work with the service providers in pursuit of opportunities for mutual benefit and shared investment (e.g. joint training initiatives), gain-share and innovation. Assist with the monitoring, auditing and checking of the currency of the service provider’s quality management, performance monitoring and management information systems. Ensure that the service provider monitors its own service delivery in accordance with its quality management regime.
- Post
- Lighting
- Furniture
- Tradesmen
- Office moves
- Couriers
- Filing
- Stationery
- Maintenance
- Decoration
- Travel booking
- Archiving
- Maintenance
- Property management
- Other tasks within the spectrum of Facilities Management
Where you'll work
75 KING WILLIAM STREET
LONDON
EC4N 7BE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
STRAIGHT A TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Facilities services operative (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with relevant health, safety and environmental legislation (Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974) e.g. logging incidents, posting/distributing health and safety notices, checking fire extinguishers, fire alarms, confirming that checks have been carried out, use of PPE
- Comply with other relevant legislation e.g. food safety, employment rights and responsibilities, data protection, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Comply with standard operating procedures (SOPs) e.g. permits to work, contractor risk assessments, safe systems of work, site inductions
- Carry out health and safety checks in accordance with SOPs
- Report the findings of health and safety checks in accordance with SOPs
- Identify risks, hazards and threats to people, property and premises in accordance with SOPs
- Act on the findings of health and safety checks in accordance with SOPs
- Implement site emergency and evacuation procedures in accordance with SOPs e.g. acting as emergency evacuation marshal, submitting evacuation plans and reports/audits
- Report on the actions taken in accordance with SOPs
- Collaborate with other colleagues (e.g. security officers, cleaning operatives, receptionists, engineers and catering staff) in accordance with SOPs
- Respond to customers’ queries and incidents in accordance with SOPs
- Take action that is appropriate to the nature of the FM query (e.g. clarifying straightforward contractual/SLA queries, referrals/escalation)
- Deal with complaints in accordance with SOPs
- Keep customers informed of developments, issues and delays in accordance with SOPs
- Apply policies in sustainability and corporate social responsibility in accordance with SOPs
- Identify areas for improvement in sustainable and corporate social responsibility performance in accordance with SOPs
- Make practicable suggestions for improvements to corporate social responsibility performance in accordance with SOPs
- Operate the stock management system in accordance with SOPs e.g. stock checking, replenishment, stock ordering
- Confirm the correct functioning of equipment used to deliver FM services in accordance with SOPs (e.g. franking machines, reprographics equipment, cleaning equipment, vending machines, catering trolleys, radios, walkie-talkies etc.)
- Report the findings of premises and equipment inspections in accordance with SOPs
- Carry out quality assurance checks in accordance with SOP's to ensure that FM services are delivered to the required standard.
- Deal with feedback or escalate issues beyond their level of authority in accordance with SOP's
- Collect FM-related information from a variety of sources (e.g. from BMS, helpdesk or in-house systems) in accordance with the task specification
- Collate FM and health and safety information as specified (e.g. preparing preliminary reports such as energy usage and sustainability, heating systems, lighting systems, security and access systems) in accordance with the task specification
- Identify and report on opportunities for improvement from information collected in accordance with the task specification using appropriate software applications and communication platforms
- Provide support to the access management system in accordance with SOPs (e.g. ID checks, key authorization, security marking, security access data, building security alarm systems (access, CCTV etc)
- Ensure communal areas meet required standards of cleanliness and presentation in accordance with SOPs (e.g. cleanliness checks, keeping the area tidy and free from hazards, maintaining the currency of publicity displays, dealing with post, deliveries and laundry, acting as a traffic marshal, removing rubbish etc)
- Greet and treat visitors in accordance with SOPs
- Ensure service areas are maintained in accordance with SOPs for cleanliness and hygiene (e.g food preparation areas, control rooms, compactors and refuse areas)
- Support others through the provision of reception services, events organisation, hospitality and catering, room set-up and restoration in accordance with SOPs and the task specification
- Report issues and problems in accordance with SOPs
- Log jobs and arrange for repairs and engineering maintenance in accordance with SOPs
- Carry out inspections of premises and facilities to ensure the correct functioning of buildings and plant equipment in accordance with SOPs e.g. access systems, temperature checks, repairs carried out
- Carry out minor repairs and maintenance or ensure that they have been carried out in accordance with SOPs e.g. changing toner, changing batteries, replenishing stationary, PPM audits
- Report the correct operation of FM buildings and equipment in accordance with SOPs
- Keep asset registers up-to-date (checks, reconciliation, record keeping) in accordance with SOPs
- Complete and keep up-to-date personal development plans
- Keep FM-related skills up-to-date
- Keep FM-related knowledge up-to-date
- Manage customer expectations in accordance with SOPs and organizational expectations
- Communicate with customers confidently and clearly using communication methods that are appropriate to the situation in accordance with organizational expectations
- Support the project team constructively and in a way that engenders positive relationships in accordance with organizational expectations
- Report on the extent that objectives have been met and escalate any issues in accordance with organizational expectations
- Comply with relevant health, safety and environmental legislation (Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974) e.g. logging incidents, posting/distributing health and safety notices, checking fire extinguishers, fire alarms, confirming that checks have been carried out, use of PPE
- Comply with other relevant legislation e.g. food safety, employment rights and responsibilities, data protection, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Comply with standard operating procedures (SOPs) e.g. permits to work, contractor risk assessments, safe systems of work, site inductions
- Carry out health and safety checks in accordance with SOPs
- Report the findings of health and safety checks in accordance with SOPs
- Identify risks, hazards and threats to people, property and premises in accordance with SOPs
- Act on the findings of health and safety checks in accordance with SOPs
- Implement site emergency and evacuation procedures in accordance with SOPs e.g. acting as emergency evacuation marshal, submitting evacuation plans and reports/audits
- Report on the actions taken in accordance with SOPs
- Collaborate with other colleagues (e.g. security officers, cleaning operatives, receptionists, engineers and catering staff) in accordance with SOPs
- Respond to customers’ queries and incidents in accordance with SOPs
- Take action that is appropriate to the nature of the FM query (e.g. clarifying straightforward contractual/SLA queries, referrals/escalation)
- Deal with complaints in accordance with SOPs
- Keep customers informed of developments, issues and delays in accordance with SOPs
- Apply policies in sustainability and corporate social responsibility in accordance with SOPs
- Identify areas for improvement in sustainable and corporate social responsibility performance in accordance with SOPs
- Make practicable suggestions for improvements to corporate social responsibility performance in accordance with SOPs
- Operate the stock management system in accordance with SOPs e.g. stock checking, replenishment, stock ordering
- Confirm the correct functioning of equipment used to deliver FM services in accordance with SOPs (e.g. franking machines, reprographics equipment, cleaning equipment, vending machines, catering trolleys, radios, walkie-talkies etc.)
- Report the findings of premises and equipment inspections in accordance with SOPs
- Carry out quality assurance checks in accordance with SOP's to ensure that FM services are delivered to the required standard.
- Deal with feedback or escalate issues beyond their level of authority in accordance with SOP's
- Collect FM-related information from a variety of sources (e.g. from BMS, helpdesk or in-house systems) in accordance with the task specification
- Collate FM and health and safety information as specified (e.g. preparing preliminary reports such as energy usage and sustainability, heating systems, lighting systems, security and access systems) in accordance with the task specification
- Identify and report on opportunities for improvement from information collected in accordance with the task specification using appropriate software applications and communication platforms
- Provide support to the access management system in accordance with SOPs (e.g. ID checks, key authorization, security marking, security access data, building security alarm systems (access, CCTV etc)
- Ensure communal areas meet required standards of cleanliness and presentation in accordance with SOPs (e.g. cleanliness checks, keeping the area tidy and free from hazards, maintaining the currency of publicity displays, dealing with post, deliveries and laundry, acting as a traffic marshal, removing rubbish etc)
- Greet and treat visitors in accordance with SOPs
- Ensure service areas are maintained in accordance with SOPs for cleanliness and hygiene (e.g food preparation areas, control rooms, compactors and refuse areas)
- Support others through the provision of reception services, events organisation, hospitality and catering, room set-up and restoration in accordance with SOPs and the task specification
- Report issues and problems in accordance with SOPs
- Log jobs and arrange for repairs and engineering maintenance in accordance with SOPs
- Carry out inspections of premises and facilities to ensure the correct functioning of buildings and plant equipment in accordance with SOPs e.g. access systems, temperature checks, repairs carried out
- Carry out minor repairs and maintenance or ensure that they have been carried out in accordance with SOPs e.g. changing toner, changing batteries, replenishing stationary, PPM audits
- Report the correct operation of FM buildings and equipment in accordance with SOPs
- Keep asset registers up-to-date (checks, reconciliation, record keeping) in accordance with SOPs
- Complete and keep up-to-date personal development plans
- Keep FM-related skills up-to-date
- Keep FM-related knowledge up-to-date
- Manage customer expectations in accordance with SOPs and organizational expectations
- Communicate with customers confidently and clearly using communication methods that are appropriate to the situation in accordance with organizational expectations
- Support the project team constructively and in a way that engenders positive relationships in accordance with organizational expectations
- Report on the extent that objectives have been met and escalate any issues in accordance with organizational expectations
Training schedule
The Apprentice Training Program will be delivered through a structured training programme including on and off-the-job training in addition to tuition supported by the Institute of Workplace Facilities Management (“IWFM”).
Upon successful completion, the apprentice will attain a Level 2 Certificate in Facilities Services Principles.
More training information
At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying. In addition to your 1:1 tutorials with your specialist tutor, you will also attend a monthly online workshop facilitated by Straight A Training.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- At least 3 GCSE's (grade C - A* (4 - 9))
- English (grade C - A* or 4-9)
- Maths (grade C - A* or 4-9)
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Can do attitude
- Approachable
- Presentable
- Flexible
- Self-motivated
- Committed
- Cheerful
About this employer
DCT Facilities Management provides expert facilities management (FM) consultancy and operational services, working closely with clients to implement practical solutions rather than just offering recommendations. Our approach emphasises collaboration with in-house teams and service providers, focusing on creating operational structures that are both effective now and adaptable for the future d. We aim to streamline FM functions while maintaining or improving service quality, achieving cost efficiencies and enhanced vendor management.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Expected to be retained and employed, with ongoing development, with a total 5 year plan.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
STRAIGHT A TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045130.
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Closes on Monday 31 August 2026