Summary
Helm Ransome are looking to recruit a groundworker to join their team, our services include :- Building Services, Commercial Building Services, House Extensions, Groundworks, Civil works, Concreting or Block Paving.
Wage
£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Performance based increases
Training course
Groundworker (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm. Weekends optional.
40 hours a week
Start date
Monday 19 May 2025
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
Groundworkers are employed on construction sites that involve ground preparation such as, foundations or footing for new buildings.
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
* Ground working - marking out and digging shallow trenches for foundations and drains
* Form working - putting up or dismantling the shuttering that holds setting concrete in place
* Installing drainage and manholes
* Concreting
* Minor road working - laying kerbs, paving and re-surfacing
* Using hand tools and small plant machinery
Where you’ll work
12 OLIVE GROVE
GOOLE
DN14 5AD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CONSTRUCTION AND PLANT ASSESSMENTS LTD
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 achieve the Level 2 Groundworker Apprenticeship Standard by attending CP Assessments Training Centre in Denaby Main, Doncaster to undertake 7 block-release training sessions (4 days), every 10 - 12 weeks
* The successful candidate will work towards achieving Functional Skills Level 2 in both maths and English if they have not achieved this prior or have an equivalent
* Apprentices will also get an Apprentice CSCS card which can be upgraded on completion of the apprenticeship
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
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
This is a manual role that will require a good level of physical fitness. You will be working outdoors in a variety of weather conditions.