Sheffield
Sheffield, Sheffield, S13 9BS

EN:Able Futures CIC - Property Maintenance Apprentice

Salary: £16,588 a year
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Apprenticeship
Closing Date: Fri 26 Sep 2025 - 11:59 pm UTC
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EN:Able Futures CIC - Property Maintenance Apprentice

Summary

EN:Able Futures, an award-winning apprenticeship employer are partnering with Jackson Jackson & Sons to support the delivery of sheltered housing repairs for one of our members, Together Housing. We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a Property Maintenance apprentice to work with Jackson Jackson & Sons and become part of their growing team.

Annual wage: £16,588 a year
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Training course: Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Hours
Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 16:30 (16:00 on a Friday)
40.0 hours a week

Possible start date: Monday 29 September 2025

Duration: 2 Years

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

The broad purpose of the occupation is to conduct the general day-to-day maintenance required to keep a range of properties in a good state of repair.

Property maintenance operatives conduct routine maintenance tasks, and minor planned and responsive repair works, using a broad range of fundamental trade skills including carpentry, joinery, plumbing, plastering, brick and block work, external works and associated finishing trades including tiling, painting, and decorating.

Operatives use a wide variety of hand and power tools, materials, components, fixtures, and fittings, ensuring work that is carried out is compliant with health and safety requirements, and meets building safety regulations and legislation.

As an apprentice you will learn how to undertake the following day to day tasks:

  • Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks
  • Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements
  • Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property
  • Use 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
  • Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations
  • 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

Where you’ll work

Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield
S13 9BS

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

SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE

Your training course

Property maintenance operative (level 2)

Your training plan

  • The successful candidate will work towards a Level 2 Property Maintenance Qualification, which will take 24 months (including End Point Assessment) and will be delivered by Sheffield College on a day release basis

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 3)
  • Maths (grade 3)

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this company

EN:Able Futures, award-winning Shared/Flexi Job apprenticeship service will support you through your apprenticeship journey and professional development. We employ our apprentices directly and are listed on the Flexi Job Apprenticeship Register. We work with hosts in Yorkshire and the North East to provide apprentices in the construction and civil engineering industry.

After this apprenticeship

  • Progression onto a full time role for the right candidate

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

EN:Able Futures CIC
Daniel Simpkins
[email protected]

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338899.

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Closes on Friday 26 September 2025

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