Groundworker Apprentice

The Vacancy

Are you ready to jumpstart your career and be part of a vibrant, fast-paced team?Join us and immerse yourself in a dynamic environment that values creativity, collaboration, and growth.

As a level 2 groundworker apprentice you will play a vital role in preparing construction sites, ensuring the foundations are solid, and creating the essential infrastructure for buildings and other structures.

Your Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the below

You will help to prepare the site by unloading and storing building materials in a safe and efficient manner. Once the building work gets underway, further duties could include:

• Clearing the construction site of debris, vegetation, and other obstacles.
• Excavating and levelling the ground to the required depth and dimensions.
• Marking out areas for foundations and ensuring they are accurately measured and set up.
• Digging trenches for foundations and ensuring they are at the correct depth and alignment.
• Laying foundations often involving concrete and steel reinforcements.
• Installing drainage systems, including pipes and sewers, ensuring proper gradients for efficient water flow.
• Creating appropriate falls and cambers to facilitate surface water drainage.
• Form working – putting up or dismantling the shuttering that holds the concrete in place. Mixing, layering, and smoothing concrete for foundations, floors and beams
• Steel fixing – bending and fixing the bars used to reinforce concrete structures.
• Steel piling – fixing steel sheets together to form temporary retaining walls for excavation work.
• Collaborating effectively with other construction professionals, including architects, engineers, and fellow groundworkers.
• Adhering to strict safety guidelines and protocols, including wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Implementing safety measures to prevent accidents and injuries on the construction.

About you

To be successful on the programme you’ll:

• Be passionate about a career in the built environment.
• Be excited to learn and develop new skills.
• Have a curious nature.
• Be reliable and professional.
• A problem solver with the ability to think logically.
• Possess good time management skills.
• Prioritise your work to meet agreed deadlines.

Qualifications:

To be considered for this apprenticeship you will need to have achieved a Grade 4 or C and above in Maths and English

You must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level than this apprenticeship in a similar subject.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.