Groundworker apprentice

Summary

KHC Groundworks and Civil Engineering are offering an exciting opportunity to join their team as a Groundworker apprentice! Gain the knowledge, skills and behaviours to kickstart your career in the industry.

Annual wage: £13,312 to £23,795.20 a year
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Training course: Groundworker (level 2)
Hours: Monday-Friday 7:30am - 4pm. There is one 15-minute break in the morning and half an hour for lunch.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 6 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

Duties to include:

Keeping sites clean, usually there is a lot of un-needed debris that accumulates on site, a daily tidy up is always welcomed.
Shadowing another groundworker would be the ideal way to learn, taking instruction from someone who has been in the trade a lot longer.
Collecting materials and tools for people on site.
Assisting in the use of setting up laser levels for slabbing or for the machine driver to dig an area.
Use of hand tools (Anywhere from shovelling of materials such as concrete if it's a small pour to sweeping up).

Where you’ll work

Valley Motors, Gas Lane

Tolvaddon

Camborne

TR14 0BJ

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

CORNWALL COLLEGE

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

You will be working towards a Level 2 Groundworker Apprenticeship Standard.

You will receive on and off-the-job training and support from an assessor and an Apprenticeship advisor.

You will be required to attend Cornwall College Camborne on a weekly basis as part of the apprenticeship training.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 3/D)
Maths (grade 3/D)

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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

There is car parking and may be drivers that can drop off an applicant to and from the yard in Tolvaddon. Public transport is fairly good to and from the area.

About this company

We are a family run Groundworks Company based in Cornwall. We think we stand out from other companies for the exact reason that we are run by a husband-and-wife team with no other managerial support, this is incredibly hard at times but also can be quite beneficial at times too (not too many Cooks in the kitchen!). We also have a very close small team of employees. Kirk knows this business inside out and his standards are incredibly high. We cover most of Cornwall but in recent months our work has been very local to Camborne, Helston and the surrounding areas.

http://www.khcgroundworks.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Once qualified apprentices may want to further their skills with another apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CORNWALL COLLEGE

Holly

01209616452

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000289581.

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Closes in 11 days (Monday 16 December at 11:59pm)

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