Apprentice Groundworker

Exciting opportunity to join a marketing leading civil engineering and groundworks business who are looking for apprentices in their groundworks division. You will undertake fully funded training through Fareham College and achieve all required certificates for the role and industry. Interpreting design specifications to prepare a construction site ready for structural building works to take place.

**What you will do in your working day**

As an apprentice groundworker you will:

- Clear and tidy the construction site
- Dig trenches for foundations
- Set up sites including putting up barriers, safety signs and huts
- Provide evacuation support
- Interpreting the use of drawings and specifications
- Laying pavements, kerbs and driveways
- Removing drainage and pipework systems
- Operating plant machinery, such as excavators and dumper trucks
- Preparing the ground/foundations to allow construction to begin
- Redirecting waterways and connecting pipes with existing pipework

As a new starter on our groundworks training programme, you will begin on a 7-week paid traineeship/trial period, where you will attend the training centre for 4 weeks and work on-site for the remaining 3. Following success in this period you will move onto an employment contract with Farncombe and undertake the Groundworks Level 2 apprenticeship programme at Fareham Colleges CETC campus.

*We take our safeguarding responsibilities seriously and successful appointment to this role will depend on the results of relevant checks*.

**The training you will be getting**
- Qualification/s to be obtained:Level 2 Groundworks
- Functional Skills maths Level 1/D grade
- Functional Skills English Level 1/D grade

The training will be delivered by Fareham College, an Ofsted Outstanding College. Your training will be delivered Block Release, and you will attend Fareham Colleges; CETC campus. The schedule of this block release is to be confirmed.

**What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship**

There will be the opportunity for a full-time permanent position following successful completion of all training.

Farncombe are committed to looking after their people and many staff stay with the company for decades, if you show the right characteristics Farncombe Construction will support you to progress.

**Job Type**: Apprenticeship

**Salary**: £6.00-£10.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company pension
- Free or subsidised travel
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

- Lee-on-the-Solent (required)
- Aldershot, Hampshire (required)
- Alton, Hampshire (required)

Work Location: On the road