Property Maintenance Operative Apprentice

Summary

The role reports to the Facilities Manager within the Infrastructure and Laboratory Services function. Infrastructure and Laboratory Services (I&LS) are part of the Corporate Division and provide engineering and specialist staff to deliver a safe working environment for staff, particularly in our specialist scientific facilities.

Annual wage: £25,069 a year
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Training course: Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Hours: Monday -Thursday 08:00 - 16:30 Friday 08:00 - 16:00
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 1 January
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative will join the existing onsite team as part of the Facilities and Laboratory Services function (FLS), working alongside other Building Maintenance Operatives.

The Apprentice will be expected to develop a skillset to maintain the building fabrics, operating and maintenance of site facilities including painting, moving of equipment, plumbing, small carpentry works and Fire alarm testing. The apprenticeship will also include the development of competencies for property maintenance and supervising of Contractors to site.

This role is a Level 2 apprenticeship, where you will spend time at the South Mimms Site (SMS) developing your role within our facilities team. You will spend time at college, where you can meet other apprentices and learn more about the technical aspects of property maintenance.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Maintain good behaviours while onsite and off-site at college, being an ambassador for yourself and the agency
Achieve full understanding and apply the practices and procedures related to planned and reactive building maintenance tasks and equipment
Working safely in compliance with all legislation (Health and Safety), local rules and good practice ensuring safety of themselves and others and ensure good and accurate records are completed in a timely manner

Where you’ll work

N I B S C, Blanche Lane, South Mimms

Potters Bar

EN6 3QG

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

THE WKCIC GROUP

Your training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

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.

Your training plan

Property Maintenance Operative Level 2.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent 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
IT skills
Physical fitness

Other requirements

Varied work indoors and outdoors as required. Work within offices and Laboratories (containment environments) Use of Hand tools. Moving of equipment involving manual handling If you are successful in securing an interview, you are likely to be required to attend an interview at the South Mimms Site.

About this company

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research. The agency is made up of c.1300 staff working across two main centres and peripatetically across the UK and abroad. The HR Division has a key role in developing organisational capability and managing both current and predicted people risks effectively in order to enable organisational development and specifically people resourcing needs, in pursuit of the Agency vision and objectives and in line with Agency values.

After this apprenticeship

Acquiring this qualification will pave the way for advancement into various professional positions, including Technical Specialist roles like Electrical or Plumbing, as well as Supervisory and Management positions such as Facilities Management. These opportunities span across diverse sectors, offering abroad array of career prospects.

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