Apprentice - Gas Operative

About the role

Launch Your Career as a Gas Operative Apprentice

We're recruiting for Gas Operative Apprentices to join our Housing Maintenance and Developments team and develop the skills needed for a successful career in the gas and heating industry.

As a Gas Operative Apprentice, you'll work alongside experienced tradespeople, supporting the delivery of high-quality repairs, maintenance, and improvement works across North Northamptonshire Council's housing properties. Combining practical, hands-on experience with formal training, you'll work towards achieving the Level 3 Plumbing and Domestic Heating Technician Apprenticeship, gaining the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to become a qualified Gas Operative. This is an exciting opportunity to earn while you learn, develop valuable trade skills, and make a real difference to our tenants and communities.

What will you be doing?

As a Gas Operative Apprentice, you'll combine practical, on-the-job experience with formal training to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to become a qualified Gas Operative.

You will:

• Work towards achieving the Level 3 Plumbing and Domestic Heating Technician Apprenticeship, aiming for a Pass or Distinction.
• Support qualified Gas Operatives with repairs, maintenance and servicing work across North Northamptonshire Council's housing properties.
• Carry out site-based tasks under the guidance of a Repairs Officer, Repairs and Maintenance Co-ordinator or Mentor, applying knowledge gained through both workplace experience and college learning.
• Learn from experienced professionals, developing an understanding of the gas and heating trade and building the skills needed for a successful career.
• Attend all required training, college sessions and mentoring meetings to support your development.
• Continuously develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours in line with the apprenticeship standard.
• Follow all health and safety procedures, reporting hazards promptly and adhering to the Council's Health and Safety Management System at all times.
• Assist with a range of duties including trade work, labouring activities and administrative tasks as required.
• Work in a variety of environments and weather conditions while safely handling tools, equipment and materials.

This is a fantastic opportunity to earn while you learn, gain a recognised qualification and build a rewarding career while helping to maintain and improve homes for local residents.

About you

• GCSE Maths and English at grades A-C or 4-9 or equivalent is Essential.
• Ability to travel to college within Northamptonshire / Leicestershire for day release
  
  

Qualities:

• Good communication skills
• Ability to follow instructions
• Good levels of numeracy and literacy
• Honesty and Integrity
• Ability to solve problems and when to escalate them
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to work in a team
• Punctual

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)