Formworker Apprenticeship
KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.
London (NW10 6DZ)
Closes on Friday 5 September 2025
Posted on 25 July 2025
Contents
Summary
The opportunity to start a career within construction, with a recognised company working on iconic jobs such as Canary Wharf. As an apprentice, you will be on a development plan and a career mentor to help your progression throughout your apprenticeship. We offer a competitive salary, 20 days annual leave & more CSCS CARD REQUIRED.
- Wage
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£31,000 a year
- Training course
- Formworker (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday: 7.30am- 5.30pm
(Breaks to be confirmed)
45 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 5 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
As an apprentice formworker you will learn to work with different types of traditional and system formwork.
This will involve:
- Working from specifications and drawings to make, set out and fix to the correct height of different types of vertical formwork
- Erect any and all falsework as required to support formwork
- You will learn to plan the most efficient and productive working sequence to construct and erect formwork while working with other trades in the same area
Where you'll work
Old Oak Common Depot
Old Oak Common Lane
London
NW10 6DZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON COLLEGE
Training course
Formworker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Communicate in a clear and appropriate manner (verbal, written, body language). Adjusts communication to suit different situations, individuals or teams.
- Apply general workplace health, safety and welfare requirements when undertaking construction formworking/falseworking activities.
- Practice safe working techniques for moving, lifting and handling traditional and proprietary formwork system; which will include working at heights and using access equipment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of planning and able to undertake different methods of construction used to build structures productively. Competent to read, interpret and apply information from drawings, specifications and construction information.
- Takes ownership of allocated projects and effectively manages own time.
- Use a range of methods used to communicate workplace requirements effectively and demonstrate how key personnel should communicate effectively within a team.
- Form and assemble horizontal and vertical formwork as per design drawings and repair, erect and strike formworking.
- Erect, Strike formwork/ falsework and its components for a range of applications including wall, slabs/bases, columns, beams and precast units to support concrete.
- Competent to safely use, store and maintain hand tools, power tools and ancillary equipment.
Training schedule
Formworker Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard:
- You will work on one of our 'live' projects and receive training from a recognised provider either one day a week or on a block release
- Functional Skills maths and English (if required)
More training information
- CSCS card required
- If you do not have a CSCS card, your application will be unsuccessful
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 5)
- Maths (grade 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
- Attention to detail
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Candidates need to have a CSCS card.
About this employer
Kilnbridge has a hard-earned reputation for delivering construction and civil engineering projects – particularly those with difficult or unusual challenges to resolve. Founded in 1991 by our Chairman and Founder, Dermot McDermott as a general building and civil engineering contractor, we initially undertook builders’ work packages across the Canary Wharf development and southeast London. We quickly developed into a multi-disciplinary, national engineering and construction business that currently employs more than 1,000 people. Today, Kilnbridge offers expertise in Building & Civil Engineering, Concrete Cutting and Controlled Demolition, Fire Protection and Waste Management. These key service areas are supported by our in-house capabilities in Engineering & Design, Fabrication (K FAB) and Plant and construction equipment (K PLANT). Working collaboratively with clients in a wide range of industry sectors, we capitalise fully on our teams’ in-depth knowledge, experience and skills to realise their vision. Our diverse and highly talented workforce delivers outstanding and often award-winning bespoke solutions through innovation, courage and determination. Kilnbridge proactively embraces equality, diversity and inclusion throughout the business, and has an industry leading safety culture. In March 2021 we became an employee-owned business, with the aim of safeguarding our future for the benefit of everyone who works here.
After this apprenticeship
- Once you have achieved the Level 2 qualification you will have the opportunity to progress to the next level
- Ultimately, and depending on the individual, you could advance to a supervisory or management role within the construction industry
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.
HR Department
apprenticeships@kilnbridge.com
020 7511 1888
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333848.
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Closes on Friday 5 September 2025
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