Summary
This is a hands-on opportunity to start a rewarding career in construction. As a groundworker, you’ll be at the heart of every building project, preparing the foundations, installing drainage, and shaping the landscape for new developments. This apprenticeship offers practical experience with industry-recognised qualifications.
Wage
£15,311.40 a year
Training course
Groundworker (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 4:30pm.
39 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
1 year 6 months
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
* Clearing sites by removing vegetation and preparing the ground for construction.
* Measuring and marking out areas for foundations and other structures.
* Assisting with traffic and machinery movements as a banksman.
* Setting levels and pouring concrete footings for houses, garages, gardens, and retaining walls.
* Installing both internal and external drainage systems.
* Preparing and laying block and beam floors or traditional concrete oversites.
* Setting up and preparing scaffold margins for safe working access.
* Laying kerbs, edgings, and paving slabs for paths and roadways.
* Preparing driveways and footpaths for tarmac application.
* Digging and concreting fence posts before installing fencing.
* Following health & safety policies, risk assessments, and site procedures at all times.
* Carrying out additional site duties as required.
* Ensuring compliance with GDPR regulations when handling data.
Where you’ll work
370 Loughborough Rd
Leicester
LE4 5PR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NHBC SERVICES 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
* Training will be through the NHBC College Hub in Tamworth.
More training information
For more information about the course please visit:
Requirements
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
* Problem solving skills
* Team working
* Initiative
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
This role will require working outdoors on a busy construction site. There will also be the requirement of lifting heavy objects. It will be the apprentice's responsibility to ensure that they are able to attend the site that they are working on each day. Full UK Drivers License is desirable but not required.