Bricklaying Apprenticeship

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a new Bricklaying Apprentice to join our team at the Port Loop development in Birmingham. We are looking for motivated individuals who are passionate about starting a career in bricklaying. This is a fantastic chance to kick-start your career in construction with hands-on experience and expert guidance.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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Pay will be reviewed after 1st year is completed.

Training course

Bricklayer (level 2)

Hours

Expect on site times to be between the hours of 7am - 4.30pm, exact working days and times TBC

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

Tasks will include:

General onsite housekeeping and labouring activities
Setting out: measuring and marking areas for brickwork
Laying bricks and blocks: apply mortar and lay bricks and blocks
Checking alignment: using laser levels to ensure bricks are in line
Repointing: repairing old or damaged mortar joints
Using tools: become proficient with tools and equipment
Safe working practices: adhering to all health and safety regs

Where you'll work

Keon Homes Port Loop Rotton Park Street
Birmingham
B16 0AD

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

NHBC SERVICES LIMITED

Your training course

Bricklayer (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

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.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Read and interpret information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate and select required resources: For example, the quantity of bricks and blocks, mortar, wall ties and insulation.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Select and use hand tools.
Maintain and store hand tools.
Set out brick and block cavity wall to given tolerances, including an opening.
Construct a stretcher bond brick and block cavity wall with return and opening to given tolerances, including installing a lintel with soldiers, brick and edge sill, closure around opening, insulation, fire stopping, cavity tray, damp proof course (DPC) and weep holes.
Apply joint finishes: For example, half round, flush, weather struck and recessed.
Set out and construct a simple brick solid wall with capping.
Gauge and hand mix mortar to ratio.
Measure and cut bricks and blocks using hand tools, to given tolerances.
Carry out a simple repair: For example, replacing damaged bricks.
Protect materials and finished work.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Construct a brick wall with raking cut. For example, gable end wall or garden wall with raking cut.
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.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Read and interpret information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate and select required resources: For example, the quantity of bricks and blocks, mortar, wall ties and insulation.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Select and use hand tools.
Maintain and store hand tools.
Set out brick and block cavity wall to given tolerances, including an opening.
Construct a stretcher bond brick and block cavity wall with return and opening to given tolerances, including installing a lintel with soldiers, brick and edge sill, closure around opening, insulation, fire stopping, cavity tray, damp proof course (DPC) and weep holes.
Apply joint finishes: For example, half round, flush, weather struck and recessed.
Set out and construct a simple brick solid wall with capping.
Gauge and hand mix mortar to ratio.
Measure and cut bricks and blocks using hand tools, to given tolerances.
Carry out a simple repair: For example, replacing damaged bricks.
Protect materials and finished work.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Follow equity, diversity and inclusion guidance.
Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Construct a brick wall with raking cut. For example, gable end wall or garden wall with raking cut.

Your training plan

Bricklayer Level 2.

The apprentice will be trained at the NHBC training hub in Lichfield. The first 5 weeks of the apprenticeship are practical sessions at the hub, with each day running 08:00 - 16:30. You will then return to the training hub every 8-10 weeks for 2-weeks of intensive learning. With training block delivery all year round, you can complete an apprenticeship within 18-months.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade Level 1)
Maths (grade Level 1)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

This vacancy involves working outdoors and will require good communication and team working skills.

About this company

Prestige Brickwork Ltd are a brickwork, blockwork and stonework subcontractors to the construction Industry. Based in Telford Shropshire, we undertake masonry works all over the West Midlands.

https://prestige-brickwork.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Following successful completion of the apprenticeship, this can lead to you becoming a subcontracted bricklayer for Prestige Brickwork.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

PRESTIGE BRICKWORK LTD

Grace Dawkes

grace@prestige-brickwork.co.uk

01952 619886

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323347.

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