Apprentice Scaffolder

Love being outdoors? Not afraid of heights? Want to learn a trade, gain qualifications, and be part of a great team, all whilst learning on the job?

Connect Scaffolding has exciting opportunities for Apprentice Scaffolders to join our teams. We believe in developing the potential of our people through training.

Requirements

• Skills:
  • Communication skills
  • Team working
  • Physical fitness
• Other requirements:
  • Must be 18 years old (due to insurance purposes).
  • Must be able to drive.
  • Enjoy working hard, work well in a team, and have a positive and respectful attitude come rain or shine.
  • Prior construction experience (labouring or different trade) is preferential.

Responsibilities

• Manual handling

• Working in a team to help erect and dismantle scaffolding

• Adhere to health & safety guidelines on site

• Learn on-the-job and become qualified

• Course contents:

  • Follow procedures in line with health and safety regulations, standards, and scaffold guidance (quality).
  • 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, lower, scaffold materials on a working platform.
  • Move and store components tools and equipment.
  • Install scaffold cantilevered structural components according to requirements of industry guidance and manufacturer’s instructions.
  • Protect others within the working vicinity. For example, the public through signage, barriers.
  • Install spurs and supports on cantilever sections.
  • Select, space, and install the correct number of ties to restrain un-sheeted scaffolds 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 working platform.
  • Lay out materials, 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 independent with cantilever section to a maximum height of 2m working platform.
  • Erect and dismantle independent scaffolds, with features for example, 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 for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
  • Apply team working principles.
  • Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
  • Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidelines.