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Level 2 Plastering Apprenticeship
Start your career in plastering with an apprenticeship working on real domestic projects across Liskeard and the surrounding areas. You’ll learn essential skills such as surface preparation, boarding, skimming, and repair work while working alongside experienced tradespeople. This is a great opportunity to earn while you learn.
Requirements
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Responsibilities
- Prepare work areas and protect surfaces
- Mix plaster
- Apply plaster to walls and ceilings
- Help install plasterboard
- Smooth and finish surfaces
- Carry tools and materials
- Clean tools and keep the site tidy
- Work with experienced plasterers
- Follow health and safety policies
Benefits
- Wage: £15,808 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age (National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices)
- On completion of your Level 2 Apprenticeship with Marlam, an opportunity to apply for a full-time post may be offered to the right learner
- Alternatively, you could go on to complete your level 3 qualification or go on to be self-employed and start your own company
Application Process
- Closes in 15 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
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About Marlam Construction
MCL was designed with the aim to create a team of professional trades that could instil the same virtues that our directors have wholeheartedly believed in for 46 years. Since then, our team has grown bigger and stronger, with each individual having their own core strengths that bring new ideas to the company, ensuring a clearer path to move forward. For years we have worked in both the commercial and domestic sectors. This helps to combine industry professionalism with domestic customer care, allowing us to establish trust, provide support, and always go the extra mile.
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- The contact for this apprenticeship is: SKILLS TO GROUP LIMITED
- The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000036776.
Additional Information
- Training course: Plasterer (level 2)
- Hours: Your working week will be 4 days per week with Marlam, typically from 8.00am - 4.00pm. Your apprenticeship training provider will be Skills to Group and you will be required to attend 1 day per week. (38 hours a week)
- Start date: Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration: 2 years
- Positions available: 1
- Training provider: SKILLS TO GROUP LIMITED
- Training schedule: An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying. College sessions will run weekly at Skills to Group.
- What you'll learn (Course contents):
- Core: Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Core: Identify and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Core: Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Core: Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
- Core: Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Core: Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
- Core: Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Core: Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
- Core: Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
- Core: Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
- Core: Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
- Core: Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
- SP: Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
- SP: Select, use and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
- SP: Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
- SP: Apply floating coat plaster to solid back grounds, including the formation of 90 degree angles with bead, consolidation and mechanical key application.
- SP: Apply setting coat plaster.
- SP: Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
- SP: Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats and application of render beads.
- SP: Prepare background surfaces to receive solid plasters, and renders, including the application of solid plastering and render primers and sealers.
- SP: Measure, mark out and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
- SP: Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
- SP: Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
- SP: Carry out solid plaster repair: For example, replace plasterboard, patch plaster to solid background.
- FP: Select, use and store hand tools for fibrous plastering applications.
- FP: Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
- FP: Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
- FP: Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
- FP: Construct moulds.
- FP: Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
- FP: Run mould and release casts.
- FP: Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
- FP: Set and mark out for cornice installation.
- FP: Fix cornice including straight runs, stops and 90 degree internal and external angles.
- FP: Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
- FP: Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
- FP: fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
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