Groundworker apprenticeship

M Lambe Construction Ltd

West Midlands (B18 6RU)

Closes on Friday 30 May 2025

Posted on 16 April 2025

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Summary

We are offering an exciting opportunity for sensible, hardworking individuals to join our production teams as a groundwork apprentice. This is a great chance to build your knowledge and experience in a sought-after trade learning fundamental and transferrable practical skills.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

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Training course
Groundworker (level 2)
Hours
You will be working on a construction site Monday to Friday 7.30am - 4.30pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 22 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

Groundworkers are the first contractors to begin work on a construction site. They work closely with all construction trades, such as bricklayers, and plant operatives, to prepare the site ready for building works to begin.

You will receive a site safety briefing and a schedule of work for the day and be expected to work as part of a team to complete tasks set for that project.

You will undertake a variety of tasks such as:

  • Foundations, hard landscaping and earth works
  • Concreting
  • Traditional drainage and pipe laying
  • Benching, channelling manholes and gullies
  • Road works, laying kerbs, paving
  • Surfacing and tarmac laying
  • Utility ducting and laying
  • Use of plant/machinery
  • Steel fixing and piling

Where you’ll work

NO 1 The Mint
94 Icknield Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B18 6RU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

SALUTEM LIMITED

Your training course

Groundworker (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents
  • Work safely and securely in compliance with given information, organisational policies and procedures, and current health, safety and welfare legislation including following the procedures for working in contaminated ground
  • Conform with productive working practices and completing the work in accordance with the programme of work
  • Interpret and follow verbal and written work instructions from supervisors and site managers
  • Access, interpret and use drawings and specifications
  • Select the required resources including tools and fixtures
  • Move, handle and store resources complying with relevant legislation & guidance
  • Use and maintain power tools and equipment (including;. compactor plates, boning rods, portable power tools, levels, straight edges, lines, pins and laser equipment)
  • Gauge and mix mortars and concrete by hand and by mixer
  • Select and use basic setting out equipment including tape measures, levels, straight edges, lines and pins, boning rods and laser equipment under guidance of the supervisor
  • Install, maintain and remove temporary protection and safety arrangements for the work area relating to barriers and temporary structures, including protection, safety notices and safety lighting
  • Install and test basic drainage and ducting
  • Measure, mark, cut and install geo-membranes to stabilise soil for re-instatement and excavations
  • Transport and place, then compact and finish concrete to slabs/bases, footing oversights, paths, form slab edgings including positioning reinforcement and kerbs
  • Set out and lay flags, paviours and edging to paths, driveways and other areas
  • Install ironworks relating to access covers and frames, and gully grates and frames including preparatory brickwork
  • Locate and excavate to expose buried utility services using electronic location instruments
  • Provide and remove temporary works including shallow excavation support (up to 1.2 metres)
  • Form and reinstate excavations and surfaces to sub-grades, sub-bases and road bases
  • Prepare to, then direct and guide the movement of vehicles, plant or machinery

Your training plan

The apprenticeship lasts for a minimum of 12-months and a maximum of 18-months. You will be trained on site by our staff and also attend 10-weeks of training at Salutem in Aston, B6 5RS which takes place throughout the year in block release to study the following:

  • Health and safety
  • Environmental and health hazards
  • Basic principles of building information modelling
  • The differences between modern and traditional construction methods
  • Principles and methods of working in confined spaces
  • Locating and excavating to expose buried utility services
  • Basic principles of drainage

The training you receive on site from experienced workers will help you produce a portfolio of evidence for your end point assessment.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Physical fitness

Other requirements

This apprenticeship will be based outdoors and will require you to be physically fit. You must be able to get to a site for 7.30am every morning. We are looking for individuals with an excellent work ethic, motivated and willing to learn, flexibility and resilience with a positive attitude.

About this company

M. Lambe Construction is a groundworks and civil engineering partner for forward-thinking housebuilders. The company was founded in 1983. We prepare complex sites for development through bulk earthworks, cut-and-fill operations, ground remediation and dewatering. We deliver substructure work including foundations, floor installation, and private drainage. We believe making groundworks more transparent and predictable helps housebuilders deliver more value to their customers.

http://www.mlambe.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

After successful completion of the apprenticeship, we would expect to employ you within our business as a groundworker with the potential to progress to team leader, site supervisor and beyond. You could continue training to specialise in roles such as engineering or machine driving.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SALUTEM LIMITED

Emily Humphrey

emily.humphrey@salutem.co.uk

0121 326 1450

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315535.

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Closes on Friday 30 May 2025

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