Apprentice Scaffolder (Oxford)

South East Centre For The Built Environment Limited; Oxford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative apprenticeship program offers a unique opportunity to enter the construction industry through hands-on training. As part of a flexible job apprenticeship agency, you will gain practical experience while working closely with construction partners. This role prepares you for diverse career paths, including scaffolding foreman and site management. With a strong focus on health and safety, you will learn to follow industry standards and regulations, ensuring a safe working environment. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will shape the future of construction and develop essential skills that are highly valued in the industry.

Qualifications

• Completion of a scaffolding apprenticeship with practical training on-site.
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations and scaffold guidance.

Responsibilities

• Follow health and safety procedures and inspect scaffold materials.
• Erect and dismantle scaffolds safely and communicate effectively with teams.
• Comply with environmental regulations and maintain safety standards.

Skills

Health and Safety Compliance

Scaffold Inspection

Teamwork

Communication Skills

Understanding of Drawings and Specifications

Education

Apprenticeship in Scaffolding

Tools

Scaffold Materials

Lifting Equipment

Job description

CoTrain is a program under SECBE. As a shared apprenticeship scheme and a Flexible Job Apprenticeship Agency partly funded by CITB, we provide a route into the industry for anyone wishing to complete an apprenticeship. We employ and mentor apprentices and place them with our construction partners and colleges to gain the correct experience and skills to complete their qualifications.

Careers after this apprenticeship could include working as a scaffolding foreman, scaffold inspector, or transitioning into estimating, quantity surveying, site management, and health and safety roles within the construction industry.

Responsibilities:

• Follow procedures in line with health and safety regulations, standards, and scaffold guidance.
• Comply with risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work.
• Inspect and select serviceable scaffold materials, components, and tools before use, and escalate defects.
• Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
• Carry, raise, and lower scaffold materials on a working platform.
• Move and store components, tools, and equipment.
• Install scaffold cantilevered structural components according to industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
• Protect others within the working vicinity, for example, the public through signage and barriers.
• Install spurs and supports on cantilever sections.
• Select, space, and install the correct number of ties to restrain un-sheeted scaffolds according to industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
• Determine the component requirements for independent scaffolding.
• Organise materials to operate within the industry and manufacturers' configurations and tolerances.
• Use lifting equipment safely to haul up scaffold components and equipment to the working platform.
• Lay out materials and set out scaffolds to erect and dismantle scaffolds in a safe sequence.
• Inspect scaffolds prior to hand-over.
• Use access and work at height equipment in accordance with training, relevant regulations, and employer’s and manufacturer’s instructions.
• Erect and dismantle independently with cantilever sections to a maximum height of 2m working platform.
• Erect and dismantle independent scaffolds, with features such as towers, birdcages, chimney stacks, loading bays with or without beams, truss outs with beams, splays, and bridging sections with beams and gantry scaffolds.
• Communicate with others verbally, including internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
• Apply team working principles.
• Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
• Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion guidelines.

We work with a number of training providers for scaffolding. Block weeks will be spaced out over the 18 months of the apprenticeship duration, and you will need to live away from home during these training weeks. 80% of your training will happen on a real construction site, and 20% will be at a college/training provider's facility.

You will work Monday to Friday, 8 hours a day, typically starting at 07:30 AM and finishing at 16:30 PM, with breaks totaling 1 hour a day. No evening or weekend work is expected.