Summary
Start your career in construction and property maintenance with Absolute Developments. Join our team and gain hands-on experience in full property repairs, refurbishments, kitchens, bathrooms, plastering, plumbing, electrical works, decorating and general maintenance while learning from experienced tradespeople.
- Wage
£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Pay is based on your productivity, skills, experience and contribution. Pay reviews take place between 1 and 4 times per year and increases are earned through improved performance and capability.
- Training course
- Property maintenance operative (level 2)
- Hours
- Working week: Monday - Friday. Arrive on site for 6.50am. Minimum 30 hours, average 40 hours per week.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
Thursday 1 October 2026
- Duration
2 years
- Positions available
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
- Carpentry
- Joinery
- Building
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Plastering
- Painting and decorating
- Tiling
- Flooring
- Bricklaying & Masonry
- General property maintenance
- Site preparation and clean up
Where you'll work
London Road
Adlington
Macclesfield
SK10 4NA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
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
Things to consider:
You will attend college for 1 week, work with us on site for 5 weeks, repeat through the year.
The candidate is to arrive at the job site at 6.50am.
The candidate can make their own way to the job site (preferred), or they can meet at the pick up point for a lift in the morning and drop off after work.
Pickup time is between 6.10am and 6.40am, depending on the current job.
Pickup & drop off point is either: The Windmill Pub, Holehouse Ln, Whiteley Green, Macclesfield SK10 5SJ, OR, Toby Carvery Macclesfield, London Road, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4NA, depending on where the current job is.
More training information
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Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade GCSE Grade 4/C or above)
- Maths (grade GCSE Grade 4/C or above)
- Science (grade GCSE Grade 4/C or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Punctuality
- Time keeping
Other requirements
The candidate is to arrive at the job site at 6.50am.
The candidate can make their own way to the job site (preferred), or they can meet at the pickup point for a lift in the morning and drop off after work.
Pickup time is between 6.10am and 6.40am, depending on the current job.
Pickup & drop off point is either: The Windmill Pub, Holehouse Ln, Whiteley Green, Macclesfield SK10 5SJ, OR, Toby Carvery Macclesfield, London Road, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4NA, depending on where the current job is.