Interior Systems Installer (Drylining) Apprentice
SUNSET BUILDING CO LTD
Recruiting nationally
Closes in 26 days (Friday 7 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 9 October 2025
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Summary
This Interior Systems Installer(Drylining) Apprenticeship offers a hands-on introduction to the construction industry, where you'll learn how to install, finish, and repair drylining systems used in new build housing estates. You will work alongside experienced professionals and develop practical skills on-site.
- Wage
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£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Interior systems installer (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday
Hours on site will be roughly 7.30am- 4.30pm (not including travel)
Block weeks will be attended at Bedford College.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 November 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
Reading and interpreting technical drawings
Understanding layout plans to install partitions, ceilings, and linings accurately
Measuring and marking out
Measuring wall and ceiling spaces and marking guidelines for installation
Cutting and shaping materials
Using hand and power tools to cut plasterboard, metal stud, and track to size
Installing metal framework (stud and track systems)
Fixing metal stud partitions and ceiling frameworks to create structures within buildings
Fixing plasterboard to walls and ceilings
Attaching boards to frameworks or existing walls using screws, adhesives, or fixings
Taping and jointing plasterboard
Preparing surfaces for decoration by filling joints and sanding smooth
Installing fire, sound, and thermal insulation
Placing insulation materials within partitions or ceilings as per specification
Fitting suspended ceilings
Installing grid systems and ceiling tiles, often in commercial or office settings
Maintaining tools and equipment
Ensuring tools are safe, clean, and ready for use
Complying with health and safety regulations
Wearing correct PPE and working safely on-site at all times
Where you'll work
Our offices are based in Luton but our site work is across Herts, Beds and Bucks
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BEDFORD COLLEGE
Training course
Interior systems installer (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Measure and set out from drawings provided and check vertical and horizontal datum
- Select the appropriate materials, tools and equipment in accordance with the specification requirements and or manufacturer specific instructions
- Safely and correctly operate tools and equipment, plant and machinery appropriate for use. (e.g. scaffold, MEWPS, nail gun, circular saw, lasers
- Apply fire and acoustic mastic seals in accordance with specification, designs details and manufacturers recommendations
- Accurately measure and cut components (e.g. metal sections, plasterboard, insulation, timber and plywood)
- Appropriately fix all components according to specifications and/or drawings
- Effectively protect surround surfaces and segregate work areas and cutting areas
- Install dry lining systems to metal and stud partitions framed wall linings, framed and frameless beam and column encasements
- Clearly communicate with management, customers and colleagues including other trades onsite
- Maintain a clean and tidy environment, appropriately disposing of waste according to site procedures
- Identify and select appropriate PPE for the task
- Install pattresses
- Install insulation
- Form service penetrations through partitions
- Install primary channels or main runners to line and level. Cut to length
- Frame and fit access panels
- install drylining and plasterboard linings eg panels, plasterboards, metal sections, timber battens, wallboards, thermal boards, glass reinforced gypsum board, fixings and fittings
- Select the appropriate materials, tools and equipment for installing drylining and plasterboard linings
- Install and remove drylining systems according to manufacturers guidelines eg British Gypsum, Knauf, Siniat
- Form openings and junctions in accordance with drawing specifications
- Carry out repairs to dry lining and plasterboard walls and ceilings in accordance with design details, specification and manufacturers recommendations
- Form and Fix standard deflection heads in accordance with manufactures standard details
- Accurately measure and cut components
- Appropriately fix all components according to specification/drawings.
- Install different types of drylining systems eg Twin walls, Staggered studs, Service shaft partitions, Curved walls, Walls over 3 metres high
- Cut and fix tracks at appropriate centres according to Specification & manufactures instructions
- Apply wall coverings according to Specification & manufactures instructions
- Install door and window frames in accordance with drawings.
- Fit cover trims and skirtings in accordance with Specification & manufactures instructions
- Install glazing, blinds and manifestations to meet customer requirements
- Hang door leaf complete with ironmongery including cutting and fitting of door furniture (eg hinges, levers, locks, closers and signage).
- Cut and fix hangers in accordance with specification, manufacturers recommendations and FIS best practice guidlines
- Install ceiling perimeter trim to level. Ensure trims are cut to length and form internal and external corner mitres.
- Install subgrid eg hangers and heavy gauge channel to bridge services, heavy gauge channel between roof purlins
- Fix secondary grid / cross tees ensuring grid is square and following manufacturers recommended installation. Form upstand using cross tee and appropriate trims or channels
- Cut and install service tiles and pattresses e.g. form square and circular service cut outs through mineral tiles with plywood pattress or metal tiles and insulation pad
- Complete tiling including: Perimeter tile cuts to mineral and metal tile; tegular tile edges to mineral tile; perimeter wedges for cut metal tiles; tile clips to back of mineral ceiling tiles; insulation pads to back of metal ceiling
- Remove sections of ceiling and replace damaged grid & tile
- Measure and set out from drawings provided and check vertical and horizontal datum
- Select the appropriate materials, tools and equipment in accordance with the specification requirements and or manufacturer specific instructions
- Safely and correctly operate tools and equipment, plant and machinery appropriate for use. (e.g. scaffold, MEWPS, nail gun, circular saw, lasers
- Apply fire and acoustic mastic seals in accordance with specification, designs details and manufacturers recommendations
- Accurately measure and cut components (e.g. metal sections, plasterboard, insulation, timber and plywood)
- Appropriately fix all components according to specifications and/or drawings
- Effectively protect surround surfaces and segregate work areas and cutting areas
- Install dry lining systems to metal and stud partitions framed wall linings, framed and frameless beam and column encasements
- Clearly communicate with management, customers and colleagues including other trades onsite
- Maintain a clean and tidy environment, appropriately disposing of waste according to site procedures
- Identify and select appropriate PPE for the task
- Install pattresses
- Install insulation
- Form service penetrations through partitions
- Install primary channels or main runners to line and level. Cut to length
- Frame and fit access panels
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
You need to show you are learning to drive - or about to start your driving lessons
About this employer
Sunset Building Company Ltd (SBC) is a family run sub-contractor who specialises in a range of services including dry lining, screeding, plastering and rendering, predominantly in the residential and commercial sectors. Our operational area varies within a 60 mile radius from our head office in Luton, Bedfordshire. SBC was formed in 2004, following the incorporation of G+R Doherty (originally established in 1988), and since, we have executed a steadily and planned growth. Our dedicated and qualified workforce are the key to this success, providing a high standard of work, ensuring deadlines are met and each project is managed seamlessly, from start to finish. This is evident in our proven track record of employee-retention and long-standing relationships with clients, resulting in repeat business. Our vision is to become and maintain position as the Dry lining/Plastering Subcontractor of choice for our clients.
After this apprenticeship
- You can further your career by taking on further training
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SUNSET BUILDING CO LTD
Tracey Coakley
Tracey.Coakley@sunsetbuilding.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000017281.
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Closes in 26 days (Friday 7 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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