Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for candidates in and around Biggleswade to become qualified Construction Equipment Maintenance Mechanic through working for a leading construction plant and equipment provider, part of the JRL Group. You will assist to service, maintain and repair a wide range of construction-based equipment.
Wage
£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
Training course
Construction equipment maintenance mechanic (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, times may vary depending on project; we normally work 45 hours per week, but times will be adjusted for apprentices younger than 18
40 hours a week
Start date
Sunday 1 June 2025
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
Duties will include, but will not be limited to:
* Health and safety within the workshop environment and workshop housekeeping
* Servicing power tools to manufacturers’ specifications
* Fault finding with test equipment
* Portable appliance testing
* Carrying out pre-delivery inspection on all equipment before hir
* Servicing and maintenance of petrol and diesel plant equipment
* Repairs and testing of power tools and small plant machines
* Identify and prepare the working area and undertake a health, safety and environmental local risk assessment which including environmental aspects, checks the suitability for the type of work and sets out an exclusion zone in specific environments. These would include workshops and on-site locations such as live-traffic areas to carry out maintenance and commissioning activities on relevant items of plant e.g. piling rigs, mobile cranes, water pumps etc.
* Identify, procure and plan for all the required resources to undertake the planned work. This includes spares, ancillary equipment and specialist tooling and lifting equipment such as torque wrenches, lifting and rigging gear, ensuring that all such equipment is in calibration and within a regime of routine inspections and in accordance with the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998 and the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998
* Configure, position, set, rig and prepare the plant or equipment within the work or maintenance environment in accordance to the safe system of work and exclusion zones (which may include neighbouring public access areas), complying with manufacturers’ and customers’ requirements so that critical components such as hydraulic pumps, motors, cables, etc. can be removed or accessed as required
Where you’ll work
Montgomery Way
Biggleswade
SG18 8UB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CITB
Your training course
Construction equipment maintenance mechanic (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
* Working area preparation including workshop, facility and construction site-based to carry out maintenance activities on construction-based equipment.
* Identify, handle and store required resources, tools and equipment necessary to maintain construction-based equipment, reporting shortages/incomplete stock as appropriate
* Configure, set, rig and prepare the plant or equipment safely and efficiently for the accessing, handling and removal of typical components, including the use of securing, jacking and lifting aids for supporting, securing and handling purposes.
* Disconnect, detach and/or remove a wide range of components and ancillary equipment Safely and efficiently from construction-based equipment, including using lifting, securing and handling aids.
* Dismantle worn, damaged or faulty parts, components and equipment
* Overhaul, repair, renovate or repair worn, damaged or faulty parts, components and equipment
* Replace and reinstate worn, damaged or faulty construction equipment parts
* Assemble, connect, attach and refit a comprehensive range of new of repaired construction-based equipment components and ancillary equipment
* Checks of static and operational performance on repaired construction-based equipment to ensure full safe functional activity prior to handover and re-commissioning to operation
* Basic visual inspections on construction-based equipment both in a workshop, facility and site-based environments to identify potential issues and problems
* Specified testing activities on construction-based equipment both in a workshop, facility and site-based environments that ensure correct and safe functional effectiveness
* Produce one-off components against given information and specifications that requires fabrication and welding activities
* Repair or modify existing components from construction-based equipment which requires heating, welding and brazing
* Install and commission construction-based equipment on site-based environments for operational activities
* Basic fault-finding and diagnostic activities on hydraulic, electric, mechanical and pneumatic systems to identify existing problems on construction-based equipment.
* Complete organisational reports to confirm and document the work activity that was undertaken and inform employer and clients of work progress and problems encountered.
* Source, extract, identify, interpret and apply technical information from workshop-type manuals, given verbal information, organisational and manufacturers’ literature and documentation, both on and off-line
* Working activities in compliance with legislation, regulations, best practice and organisational requirements in the construction, industrial, quarrying, hire, port, mining and other allied environments
* Working area preparation including workshop, facility and construction site-based to carry out maintenance activities on construction-based equipment.
* Identify, handle and store required resources, tools and equipment necessary to maintain construction-based equipment, reporting shortages/incomplete stock as appropriate
* Configure, set, rig and prepare the plant or equipment safely and efficiently for the accessing, handling and removal of typical components, including the use of securing, jacking and lifting aids for supporting, securing and handling purposes.
* Disconnect, detach and/or remove a wide range of components and ancillary equipment Safely and efficiently from construction-based equipment, including using lifting, securing and handling aids.
* Dismantle worn, damaged or faulty parts, components and equipment
* Overhaul, repair, renovate or repair worn, damaged or faulty parts, components and equipment
* Replace and reinstate worn, damaged or faulty construction equipment parts
* Assemble, connect, attach and refit a comprehensive range of new of repaired construction-based equipment components and ancillary equipment
* Checks of static and operational performance on repaired construction-based equipment to ensure full safe functional activity prior to handover and re-commissioning to operation
* Basic visual inspections on construction-based equipment both in a workshop, facility and site-based environments to identify potential issues and problems
* Specified testing activities on construction-based equipment both in a workshop, facility and site-based environments that ensure correct and safe functional effectiveness
* Produce one-off components against given information and specifications that requires fabrication and welding activities
* Repair or modify existing components from construction-based equipment which requires heating, welding and brazing
* Install and commission construction-based equipment on site-based environments for operational activities
* Basic fault-finding and diagnostic activities on hydraulic, electric, mechanical and pneumatic systems to identify existing problems on construction-based equipment.
* Complete organisational reports to confirm and document the work activity that was undertaken and inform employer and clients of work progress and problems encountered.
* Source, extract, identify, interpret and apply technical information from workshop-type manuals, given verbal information, organisational and manufacturers’ literature and documentation, both on and off-line
* Working activities in compliance with legislation, regulations, best practice and organisational requirements in the construction, industrial, quarrying, hire, port, mining and other allied environments
Your training plan
* L2 Construction Equipment Maintenance Mechanic Apprenticeship Standard
* Additional short courses and internal training programmes as required
Requirements
Essential 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
* IT skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Team working
* Initiative
* Non judgemental
* Patience