Apprentice Heating Engineer Opportunities - Gloucestershire, South West

Do you want to build your career in Trades in a growing, successful business?
Join Platform Property Care (PPC) as an Apprentice and you will be joining a well-established property maintenance business. We provide responsive day to day repairs, property refurbishment, and electrical and gas servicing for our 120,000 customers living in 47,000 homes across the Midlands. Part of Platform Housing Group, with over 1,800 colleagues, we work to deliver quality homes and customer services that make real differences to local home and lives.
This is an exciting time to join the PPC Team; our vision is clear - we are growing fast, and we aim to achieve our plan through an engaged and highly skilled team.
What will you be doing as an Apprentice Heating Engineer?
As an Apprentice Heating Engineer, you will learn all about what it takes to make sure our customers' homes are maintained to a high and safe standard. You will produce work of the highest quality while providing excellent service to our customers, clients, and your team.
As part of this apprenticeship, you will learn about how Heating Engineers ensure our customer's homes are warm and that boilers and heating systems are well maintained to a high and safe standard. The work will be varied and interesting and you will have the support of a mentor throughout your apprenticeship.
At college, you will study the Gas Engineering Operative Apprenticeship standard at Level 3 by attending Hereford College (or similar provider) one day a week, alongside learning and working with experienced operatives during the rest of the week.

On successful completion of the Gas Engineering Operative Level 3 Apprenticeship, you will be able to apply for any related job vacancies within PPC. If you gain permanent employment with PPC you will continue to be supported in your learning and development. PPC has a strong track record of offering permanent jobs to its apprentices once they qualify.
Some things we need from you

• Excellent communication skills


• Excellent organisation skills


• Customer care skills


• Team working


• Grade 4 or above GCSE or equivalent in English would be desirable


• Grade 4 or above GCSE or equivalent in Maths would be desirable

Some things you need to know

• The team is based in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire and South Birmingham so this is where applicants need to live.


• This is a Level 3 course lasting 3 years


• Ideally you would need to hold a full driving licence but this is not essential initially, but the role is mobile so would be required to be achieved, Disability Confident

About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.