Summary
Join Atom Supplies as a Trainee/Apprentice Property Maintenance Operative, supporting our Maintenance Team in delivering top-quality services. Gain hands-on experience in building management, including maintenance, compliance, customer service, and health & safety, while developing technical, operational, and people skills for a successful career.
Wage
£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5pm
38 hours a week
Start date
Sunday 4 January 2026
Duration
2 years
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
· Supporting the Facilities Manager and Quality Manager with day-to-day site operations and service delivery.
· Learning how to manage and respond to Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM);
· Complete routine checks including fire extinguishers, fire alarms, emergency lighting, legionella monitoring, ladders, compressors, chillers, pallet wrappers, and racking.
· Accurately record inspection findings and actions taken to support asset tracking and compliance.
· Learning how to manage and respond to Reactive Work Orders (WOs); Respond promptly to repair requests and equipment breakdowns.
· Diagnose and resolve minor faults safely and efficiently.
Assisting with contractor management; on-site contractor coordination, ensuring compliance, and supporting safe operations.
· Support documentation and close-out of contractor works.
· Getting hands-on with building systems, equipment checks, and basic repairs under supervision.
· Helping to manage supplies, consumables, and critical spares for the site.
· Supporting office moves, porterage tasks, and logistics to keep the site running efficiently.
· Using Taskboards to log, track, and update maintenance activity.
· Championing health, safety, and information security on-site, ensuring best practice at all times.
· Assisting with compliance record keeping, supplier management, and preparing cost data for remedial works.
Where you'll work
UNIT 1
T O N BUSINESS PARK
MORLEY ROAD
TONBRIDGE
TN9 1RA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GLP TRAINING LTD
Training course
Property maintenance operative (level 2)
What you'll learn
Course contents
* Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
* Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
* Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
* Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
* Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
* Uses 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.
* Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
* Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
* Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
* 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.
* Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
* Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
* Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
* Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
* Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
* Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
* Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
* Plan the sequence of work required to carry out routine property maintenance operations.
* Identify and select the appropriate materials and components for property maintenance tasks, ensuring these are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and manufacturer's specifications.
* Comply with statutory health and safety regulations and requirements.
* Comply with risk assessments, and organise the workplace, to safeguard themselves and the property.
* Comply with key regulatory and legislative requirements, including building regulations.
* Uses 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.
* Select, and use work tools and equipment for property maintenance tasks, applying all safeguards, and ensuring the correct functioning of equipment.
* Safely isolate and secure electrical or electronic supplies prior to performing property maintenance operations.
* Apply and implement routine emergency system checks, testing and routine maintenance, identifying and reporting faults as required.
* 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.
* Select and use technical literature and other sources of information and data to address property maintenance problems.
* Record and report information, using digital and written techniques.
* Inspect own work, ensuring it is delivered to the given specifications.
* Comply with environmental regulations and procedures. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
* Use and adapt communication methods for different situations and when, working with colleagues and stakeholders, using industry terminology as appropriate.
* Provide customer feedback whilst maintaining customer service.
* Escalates issues beyond their level of competence and authority.
Training schedule
You'll follow a structured development pathway through the Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 Apprenticeship which is designed to help you build confidence, capability, and career direction over a 15-18-month period.
This will be deliverd through a combination of online workshops, e-learning, one-to-one tutor sessions, and hands-on workplace experience, you'll develop a deep understanding of how
Property Maintenance works from safety and sustainability to people leadership and commercial awareness.
Our Warehouses where this job will be based is in Tonbridge, Kent.
More training information
Please note that this apprenticeship involves 2 days of practical training block release every quarter at a Worcester basedTraining Centre.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Organisation skills
* Team working
* Strong work ethic
* Willingness to learn