Apprentice Scaffolder
TAYLOR WIMPEY UK LIMITED
Stockton On Tees (TS16 0RW)
Closes in 17 days (Sunday 14 December 2025)
Posted on 26 November 2025
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Summary
Taylor Wimpey are looking to recruit an organised and reliable apprentice to join their scaffolding team. In this role, you will erect and dismantle scaffolding for houses in a safe and timely fashion and, on occasion, blocks of flats (up to 3–4 storeys).
- Wage
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£15,311.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Scaffolder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, 8.00am - 4.30pm and Friday, 8.00am - 3.30pm.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Primary responsibilities:
- Unloading scaffolding equipment at the site
- Carry out scaffolding activities at the site in line with the part 1 & 2 scaffolding training and TWUK procedures
- Fixing guard rails and safety netting
- Complete scaffolding erection and then taking down the scaffolding after a job is finished
- Tidy up equipment
- Working as part of a scaffold team
- Ensure that all relevant health, safety, environment and sustainable development requirements are adhered to
- Any other duties commensurate with the job role
- Ability to follow instructions
- Great hand-to-eye coordination and a good level of physical fitness
- An understanding of safe working practices
Where you'll work
Coatham Gardens
Stockton On Tees
TS16 0RW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE EDUCATION TRAINING COLLECTIVE
Training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
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What you'll learn
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.
- 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.
Training schedule
- Level 2 Scaffolder at NETA Training Group based at Redcar & Cleveland College
- Functional skills, maths and English, if required
More training information
This course will be run on block release where you will attend NETA 1-2 weeks every few months. You must be able to travel to Redcar & Cleveland College during this time.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A*-C/9-4)
- Maths (grade A*-C/9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Able to follow instructions
- Health & Safety awareness
- Time management
- Knowledge of properties
- Willingness to learn
- Enthusiastic
Other requirements
A CSCS card is preferred but not required. This apprenticeship will start in January with the Scaffolding class starting in February.
About this employer
Taylor Wimpey plc is a UK-focused residential developer which also has operations in Spain. We have a clear purpose to deliver great homes and create thriving communities. We build a wide range of homes in the UK, from apartments to six-bedroom houses. We completed 14,154 new homes in 2022, including joint ventures. In addition, we build affordable housing across the UK, which represented 21% of our total completions in 2022.
After this apprenticeship
- An opportunity for a full-time position at the end of the apprenticeship
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE EDUCATION TRAINING COLLECTIVE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002461.
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Closes in 17 days (Sunday 14 December 2025)
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