Apprentice Groundworker

We are seeking a motivated and committed candidate to start their career in construction as an Apprentice Groundworker. This is an opportunity to earn while you learn on a paid apprenticeship with the additional support of the Shared Apprenticeships team.

Groundworkers are the first trade onto a construction and civil engineering site and they work closely with supervisors and engineers in interpreting design specifications to prepare the site ready for the structural building works to take place. They continue their work throughout the construction phase, working with all on-site construction trades, such as bricklayers and plant operatives, up to and including the final completion activities of the project. Their work includes setting out and preparing the sub-surfaces ready for the structural work to begin, installing drainage systems, concreting, constructing roads and pathways and carrying out the finished hard landscaping. Groundworkers are able to transfer between heavy construction and civil engineering sites as well as house building, commercial building and general building sites. Groundworkers work for all types of construction companies from small subcontractors to large main contractors.

(Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education 2022)

Our ideal candidate

We are looking for someone to achieve the behaviours detailed within the standards.

Groundworkers will be expected to demonstrate:

• Effective communication
• Customer service skills
• Respect
• Team work skills
• Independent working
• Logical thinking
• Working effectively
• Time management
• Adaptability
• Risk management skills
• Driver essential as sites are located throughout Devon and Somerset

The employer

Our apprentices work on placement with host contractors in their local area whilst employed by Shared Apprenticeships.

Our apprentices have support of an Apprentice Manager who is committed to seeing each apprentice through to completion and onward progression to full-time employment in the industry and/or a higher apprenticeship.

The study

The training for this apprenticeship, GROUNDWORKER LEVEL 2 is expected to be delivered by a local college or independent training provider. The apprenticeship will typically take 18 months to complete.

Job Type: Apprenticeship

Salary: As a minimum, this job is paid at the published National Minimum Wage rates.

South West Shared Apprenticeship Company Limited trading as Shared Apprenticeships is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.

Please read the job description and person specification before applying

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of your application, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage

Job Type: Apprenticeship

Pay: £15,704.00-£25,396.80 per year

Application question(s):

• Why have you applied for this apprenticeship?

Work Location: On the road