Scaffolding Apprentice
MTL SCAFFOLDING LTD
Gateshead (NE8 3AE)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 June 2025
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Summary
Opportunity to earn whilst you learn with a full scaffolding apprenticeship. A local, NASC affiliated company, is offering employment in the Newcastle/Gateshead area with immediate start. Benefits - Weekly income. 30 days annual paid holiday. Onsite training. Pension (optional)
- Wage
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£15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Scaffolder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 07:00 - 16:00.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 July 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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3
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
- Training in the yard
- Onsite training
- Providing support for qualified scaffolders
- College release for training
Where you'll work
Newman House
5 South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3AE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
UTILITY & CONSTRUCTION TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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.
Your training plan
More training information
Training provided locally in fortnightly periods three times per year.
Requirements
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
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Outdoor work. Heavy lifting. Eventually working at height.
About this company
Medium sized organization working as sub-contractors to some of the biggest, most prestigious companies in the region
Company benefits
Weekly pay. 30 days paid leave annually. Pension scheme (optional).
After this apprenticeship
- Part 2
- Advanced Scaffolder
- Supervisor
- Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MTL SCAFFOLDING LTD
Ian Hoy
ian@mtlscaffolding.com
07879395593
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325369.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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