Apprentice Bricklayer

Are you looking for a practical, hands-on career with excellent long-term earning potential? This could be the perfect fit for you. We are looking for a motivated, hard-working apprentice bricklayer to join our team.

It’s a fantastic opportunity to earn while you learn, working with highly skilled tradespeople.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience. As an apprentice, you will gradually take on more responsibility as your skills develop. Your day-to-day duties will include:

• Learning to mix mortar and prepare work areas safely.
• Assisting with setting out, measuring, and cutting bricks and blocks.
• Laying bricks, blocks, and stone to construct foundations, walls, and decorative structures.
• Learning to read and interpret construction drawings and blueprints.
• Maintaining a clean, tidy, and safe working environment on-site.

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Course contents

• Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
• Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Read and interpret information from drawings and specifications.
• Estimate and select required resources: For example, the quantity of bricks and blocks, mortar, wall ties, and insulation.
• Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
• Select and use hand tools.
• Maintain and store hand tools.
• Set out brick and block cavity wall to given tolerances, including an opening.
• Construct a stretcher bond brick and block cavity wall with return and opening to given tolerances, including installing a lintel with soldiers, brick and edge sill, closure around opening, insulation, fire stopping, cavity tray, damp proof course (DPC) and weep holes.
• Apply joint finishes: For example, half round, flush, weather struck, and recessed.
• Set out and construct a simple brick solid wall with capping.
• Gauge and hand mix mortar to ratio.
• Measure and cut bricks and blocks using hand tools, to given tolerances.
• Carry out a simple repair: For example, replacing damaged bricks.
• Protect materials and finished work.
• Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
• Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion guidance.
• Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
• Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
• Construct a brick wall with raking cut. For example, gable end wall or garden wall with raking cut.