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DCG Courses Property Maintenance Operative Level 2

Property Maintenance Operative Level 2

pprentices in this occupation 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.

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Subject Area: Construction - Painting and Decorating
Course Type: Apprenticeships
Location: Hudson Building
Full Time or Part Time: FT
Level: 2
Number Of Years: 2
Interview Required?: Y
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Who is this course for?

An employee in this occupation will be responsible for performing planned maintenance and responsive repairs to properties, maintaining a high level of quality to the works they complete, providing maximum satisfaction to customers, clients, staff or residents within those properties. Generally, operatives work alone, but receive their direction from their supervisor or manager who selects and allocates jobs relative to the skills and experience of the operative. If on arrival the job is not as originally outlined, operatives have the responsibility to recognise their own level of competence, and report back to their supervisor or manager who will make the decision to amend the works required within the competence of the operative or assign the job to a more senior colleague or specialist professional.

In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with other maintenance staff, specialist trades people, landlords and property owners, and the staff that work within or the residents that occupy buildings. Property Maintenance Operatives assist in the location of the repair works to be carried out, and to obtain further information and clarification as required from the customer, using a range of information gathering and communication techniques, whilst recording and reporting information in a variety of ways, including using digital technologies. Whilst much of the time may be working inside properties, operatives will be regularly required to work outside, conducting maintenance and repairs to properties, including to external drainage, brick and blockwork, glazing, fencing and groundworks.

Typical job titles include, Maintenance Assistance, Maintenance Technician, Multi-Skilled Technician, Multi Skilled Trade Operative, Property Maintenance Operative, Property Technician. 

Entry Requirements

You need to be highly motivated and working in the maintenance or construction industry. Your job role and responsibilities should allow you to provide evidence for the knowledge, skills, and behaviours of this apprenticeship standard. DCG assessors will check your job description and advise accordingly. 

You also need a GCSE grade D/3 or above in English and Maths. 

You will undertake a basic skills test in literacy and numeracy.

A commitment to your own learning and performance in a working environment is essential.

Please note ‘In line with the Consumer Act and as articulated in our Student Protection Plan, we reserve the right to close a course, if there are insufficient students to make the course viable’.

What will you learn?

A Property Maintenance Engineer will know: 

  • The principles and requirements of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance.
  • The range of building types and characteristic uses, their common methods of construction and typical defects, and the impact that property maintenance operations may have on building safety.
  • Health and safety regulations, relevance to the occupation and the operative’s responsibilities. Health and Safety at Work Act Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH). Manual handling. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Working at height. Safety equipment: guards, signage, fire extinguishers.
  • Risks and hazards associated with property maintenance activities, and their mitigation using risk assessment.
  • Key regulatory and legislative requirements (including building regulations, the building safety bill, and BSI Flex 8670), and an awareness of how these apply to varying property types, and their impact on property maintenance operatives’ responsibilities.
  • Importance of establishing a safe and tidy work area, using appropriate access equipment, providing protection to adjacent areas, and consideration for the safety of other property users.
  • Common hand and power tools and equipment used in routine property maintenance tasks and how to use safely.
  • The common components of electrical and electronic systems, how to safely isolate electrical supplies and the procedures for correctly reporting identified faults.
  • The common forms of emergency equipment and signage, their importance within buildings and the preventative and possible corrective maintenance required.
  • The principles and components of plumbing systems, how to safely isolate, store and drain down water supplies to diagnose faults and clear blockages.
  • The principles and components of common above and below ground drainage systems, the issues that poor drainage can have on properties and how to diagnose faults and clear blockages.
  • The principles of good water hygiene to preserve and maintain the health of water systems within buildings and how these are checked and legally certified to minimise water hygiene and legionella risks.
  • The principles and components of common environmental and energy management systems and their methods of operation.
  • The common defects found in windows, doors, and glazing systems, the characteristics, uses and limitations of the materials and components used within them, and how these are used to meet statutory regulations.
  • The common types of materials and processes used to prepare, repair and finish plaster defects.
  • The common causes of painting and decorating defects, and the types of materials, chemicals and processes used in painting and decorating activities. How paints and chemicals are stored and disposed of safely.
  • The common causes of tiling defects and the types of materials and processes used in tiling activities.
  • The common causes of flooring defects and the types of materials and processes used in flooring repairs.
  • The common forms of masonry and damp proofing defects, materials and processes used in masonry repair activities: Mixing mortars, replacing defective pointing, laying and bonding of masonry, coping repairs and damp-proofing.
  • The common types of roof structures, defects and the types of materials and processes used in remedial and temporary repair.
  • The common types of fencing and railing systems, their typical defects, and the types of materials and processes used in repairs.
  • The common types of groundwork and landscaping systems, their typical defects and the types of materials and processes used in remedial repair.
  • Technical sources of information and data used in property maintenance operations.
  • The methods to record information and data via written and digital means and the importance of data protection and security.
  • The purpose of quality assurance and continuous improvement and how these improve commonly occurring faults or inefficiencies.
  • Environmental regulations and requirements: Environmental Protection Act, safe disposal of waste, minimising waste (re-use and re-cycle), waste contractors permit, energy efficiency, and contribution to net zero outcomes.
  • Methods of communication and when to use industry terminology to match the style to the audience.
  • The importance of customer service to their organisation, how to provide feedback to ensure customers are informed of property maintenance.
  • The roles and responsibilities of property maintenance operatives and the purpose and inter-dependencies of other trade operatives.
  • The rights and responsibilities of an employee and employer and an awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion, safeguarding and prevent.
  • The purpose of continuing professional development (CPD) and how this supports them to understand their limits for personal authority and competence.

 

A Property Maintenance Engineer will be able to:

  • 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.
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Behaviour required.

  • Prioritise and promote sustainable working practices.
  • Prioritise and promote health and safety.
  • Takes responsibility for completion of own work,
  • Team focuses to meet goals.
  • Contribute to equality, diverse and inclusive culture.

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How will you learn?

This delivery of this Standard is on a day release mode. Apprentices are released to the college 1 day a week throughout an academic calendar year. A typical delivery schedule would consist of:

  • 6 weeks Health and Safety
  • 8 weeks Painting & Decorating Knowledge, Skills and behaviors.
  • 8 weeks Carpentry & Joinery Knowledge, Skills and behaviors.

Work based portfolio sessions and End Point Assessment sessions are planned throughout the apprenticeship.

Functional skills sessions would be additional to any structured timetable as needed. 

Employer mentoring occurs in the workplace with the support and guidance of an assessor. 

What will you need to bring with you?

You need safety boots and personal protective equipment, safety gloves and overalls, which should be supplied by your employer. 

How will you be assessed?

You will be visited by your allocated assessor at your place of work and discussions with your employer will form supportive evidence of your training achievements as you work towards the gateway for completion.

You will then be assessed at the end of the training programme by completing an End-Point Assessment. This will assess how you can apply the skills, knowledge and behaviours acquired in your apprenticeship through the following three assessments carried out after you have completed the 24 duration of on-programme learning: 

  • Knowledge test – assessed by an End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO), this test will consist of multiple-choice questions on a computer-based platform.
  • Skills test – assessed over 10 hours by an Independent End-Point Assessor, this assessment will assess skills, knowledge and behaviours acquired throughout the apprenticeship.
  • Oral questioning – assessed by an Independent End-Point Assessor following the skills test, to confirm your understanding and to obtain further evidence of knowledge.

 

Apprentices must complete, or have previously completed, recognised English and Mathematics Level 1 qualifications and aspire to achieve English and Mathematics Level 2 qualifications during the apprenticeship.

Where next?

 

Completing this apprenticeship standard will pave the way to employment and typical job titles include Maintenance Assistance, Maintenance Technician, Multi-Skilled Technician, Multi Skilled Trade Operative, Property Maintenance Operative and Property Technician. 

You can also progress to supervisory, management or professional and technical courses and qualifications including but not limited to Level 3 in Plumbing or Electrical, Level 3 Professional Construction and Level 3 Facilities Management Apprenticeships.

 

Who do you contact for more information?

For more information contact Derby College on 0800 0280289 or enquiries@derby-college.ac.uk

Is there any financial support available?

There is no cost to the apprentice for an apprenticeship. If you are a smaller employer, you are eligible for government funding which will pay between 95% and 100% of the apprentice training costs. If you are a large employer, you can use your levy to pay for your apprenticeship training. 

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Apprenticeship summary

Typical job titles include, Maintenance Assistance, Maintenance Technician, Multi-Skilled Technician, Multi Skilled Trade Operative, Property Maintenance Operative, Property Technician. 

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. This requires them to know and understand the key principles of buildings and their construction, the range of building services that support a buildings operation, including electrical, plumbing, plant, safety systems and equipment, the techniques, and processes to prevent damage. Operatives are also keenly aware of the limits of their own competence, and will respond appropriately to, and report faults and defects to, others as necessary. Increasingly, property maintenance operatives are required to support in the optimisation of building performance and minimisation of environmental impact; operatives now need to record and report building information digitally, and consider sustainability and environmental choices, such as the use, recycling, and disposal of materials and components, in order to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.

Are they any entry requirements for my apprentice?

The apprentice will need to be highly motivated and working in the maintenance or construction industry. Their job role and responsibilities should allow them to provide evidence for the knowledge, skills, and behaviours of this apprenticeship standard. DCG assessors will check your job description and advise accordingly. 

They will also need a GCSE grade D/3 or above in English and Maths. They will undertake a basic skills test in literacy and numeracy.

A commitment to their learning and performance in a working environment is essential.

Please note ‘In line with the Consumer Act and as articulated in our Student Protection Plan, we reserve the right to close a course, if there are insufficient students to make the course viable’.

What is required from the employer in the workplace?

DCG will work with you to complete a skillscan that ensures the right programme and level of apprenticeship which meets the needs of both you and your apprentice. 

Employers need to support the apprentice throughout the work-based learning and release them for college attendance one day a week. 

An apprenticeship standard requires the employer to offer support, training and guidance so that the apprentice can record at least 20% of their time on the apprenticeship as training relating to the standard – this includes training both at college and on-site. 

Regular reviews will be completed with your apprentice and workplace representative or workplace mentor. The apprentice will be required to build on the skills learnt in college while in the workplace and collect evidence in their portfolio, before they can take the End-Point Assessment.

The employer, apprentice and DCG will work together to ensure all knowledge, skills and behaviours are met prior to the End Point Assessment.

Behaviours expected within the role

Behaviours required:

Prioritise and promote sustainable working practices.

Prioritise and promote health and safety.

Takes responsibility for completion of own work,

Team focused to meet goals.

Contribute to equality, diverse and inclusive culture.

 Seek learning and development opportunities.

What qualification will my apprentice gain?

  • Property Maintenance Operative Level 2 Standard
  • Level 1 Functional Skills in Maths and English

 

What will the assessment look like?

The End-Point Assessment (EPA) will assess how an apprentice can apply the skills, knowledge and behaviours acquired in their apprenticeship through the following three assessments carried out after the apprentice has completed the 24-month duration of on-programme learning:

  • Knowledge test – assessed by an End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO), this test will consist of multiple-choice questions on a computer-based platform.
  • Skills test – assessed over 10 hours by an Independent End-Point Assessor, this assessment will assess skills, knowledge and behaviours acquired throughout the apprenticeship.
  • Oral questioning – assessed by an Independent End-Point Assessor following the skills test, to confirm your understanding and to obtain further evidence of knowledge.

 

Will my apprentice need to come into college?

Yes, on a day release basis. Your apprentice will need to come into college at least one day per week during the academic year and in line with term times.

Is there any specialist equipment required?

Your apprentice will need to be equipped with their own PPE such as boots, hi-vis and gloves. Tools will be supplied in college but not in the workplace.

What progression can my apprentice expect after completion of their apprenticeship?

Apprentices can progress to supervisory, management or professional and technical courses and qualifications including but not limited to Level 3 in Plumbing or Electrical, Level 3 Professional Construction and Level 3 Facilities Management Apprenticeships.

What job roles will this apprenticeship be suitable for?

Completing this apprenticeship standard will pave the way to employment and typical job titles include Maintenance Assistance, Maintenance Technician, Multi-Skilled Technician, Multi Skilled Trade Operative, Property Maintenance Operative and Property Technician. 

Will the college help me find an apprentice?

You may already have someone in your organisation or someone who has come to you directly asking for an apprenticeship. However, if you don’t, we have a free recruitment service to help you hire the best candidate for your organisation from our talent pool and we provide external advertising through social media and the National Apprenticeship Service’s website.

Contact us

If you are an employer and you would like to know more, please email businessenquiries@derby-college.ac.uk or call 01332 387421

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