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Plastering Apprenticeship
We are looking for a motivated individual to undertake a Plastering Apprenticeship. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, reliable, punctual, and willing to learn. They must be able to follow instructions and be comfortable carrying out the physical aspects of the role.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Preparing surfaces ready for plastering, including cleaning and applying bonding agents
- Mixing and applying plaster to walls and ceilings to achieve a smooth finish
- Repairing and patching damaged plasterwork
- Applying finishing coats and ensuring surfaces are ready for decoration
- Maintaining a clean and safe working environment on site
Where you'll work
The Folk Hall
95 High Street, Portishead
Bristol
BS20 6PR
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Plasterer (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
Core:
- 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.
- Use access equipment for example, hop ups, podiums or low-level scaffolding.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Store materials considering date order for rotation of stock.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Check, use and store power tools and equipment, escalate faults or defects.
- Move and handle materials and equipment manually and with lifting equipment.
- Protect finished work and the surrounding area.
- Verbally communicate with others, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers.
- Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
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SP:
- Estimate quantities and select solid plastering and render materials.
- Select, use and store hand tools for solid plastering and rendering.
- Mix materials for solid plastering and render to ratio.
- Apply floating coat plaster to solid back grounds, including the formation of 90 degree angles with bead, consolidation and mechanical key application.
- Apply setting coat plaster.
- Apply plain face render to scratch coat renders, including forming a hard angle.
- Apply scratch coat renders, including mechanical key, dobbing out coats and application of render beads.
- Prepare background surfaces to receive solid plasters, and renders, including the application of solid plastering and render primers and sealers.
- Measure, mark out and cut plasterboard to fit area and obstacles, using hand tools.
- Install plasterboard to timber surfaces and reinforce joints.
- Direct bond plasterboard to solid backgrounds, including sealing around obstacles.
- 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.
- Estimate quantities and select fibrous plastering materials.
- Prepare and mix fibrous plaster materials, including reinforcement.
- Prepare and mark out background surfaces to receive fibrous plaster components.
- Construct moulds.
- Prepare bench and moulds for casting.
- Run mould and release casts.
- Measure and cut fibrous components to form straight and mitred cuts.
- Set and mark out for cornice installation.
- Fix cornice including straight runs, stops and 90 degree internal and external angles.
- Carry out fibrous plaster repair, for example, replacement or patching.
- Set out for fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
- Fix fibrous plaster dados and ceiling centres.
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Training schedule
After 21 months, you will become a fully qualified Level 2 Plasterer.
You will need to attend our training centre for 2 days, every 2 weeks in Bristol.
Desirable qualifications
- Basic Functional Skills in:
- English & Maths (grade Lvl2)
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
- Driver's licence is desirable, but not essential.
Greenlight Safety & Training is an Independent Training Provider in Bristol.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
To become a qualified plasterer with the opportunity to progress to Site Supervisor, Foreperson or several other options.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040696.
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