Piling Attendant Apprentice

ROGER BULLIVANT LIMITED

Derbyshire (DE11 9DU)

Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025

Posted on 28 August 2025

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Summary

Working on a construction site nationally, we provide foundation solutions for housing and commercial projects, using our in house designed and purpose built piling rigs.

Wage

£25,396.80 a year

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Training course
Piling attendant (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week (Shifts to be confirmed).

40 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 1 November 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

  • Load and unloading vehicles carrying equipment
  • Move tools, equipment and construction materials to and from work areas
  • Excavate, backfill and move and level earth using shovels and rakes
  • Assemble and dismantle ramps, catwalkes, shoring and barricades on construction sites
  • Handle construction materials
  • Prepare and clean up of construction site

Where you'll work

RB Walton Park
Hearthcote Road
Swadlincote
Derbyshire
DE11 9DU

Training

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

Training provider

SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE

Training course

Piling attendant (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Work safely on site and comply with environmentally responsible work practices
  • Supply information on the activities and progress of the work
  • Contribute to sustainable practices in piling operations
  • Manually handle loads
  • Sling and signal the movement of suspended loads during lifting operations
  • Carry out user maintenance on tools, piling plant and machinery
  • Guide and control the movement and operations of piling plant, machinery and vehicles
  • Off load and load vehicles
  • Operate powered units, tools, machinery and equipment specific to piling operations (e.g. concrete pumps, generators, compressors agitators, pressure washers or lighting sets)
  • Support, work as part of a team, to rig and derig piling plant and machinery
  • Monitor the delivery of concrete and take samples for testing
  • Transport, handle, pour, position and lay concrete and protect it for curing
  • Continuous Flight Auger: A continuous flight augering drill is used to excavate a hole and concrete is injected through a hollow shaft under pressure as the auger is extracted. This creates a continuous pile without ever leaving an open hole
  • Rotary Large Diameter: uses a bored piling machine with specially designed drilling tools, buckets and grabs to remove soil and rock. The auger with 4 or 5 turns of flight is bored into the ground, withdrawn, and the spoil removed. This process is repeated until the design depth is reached. Reinforcement is then positioned and concrete placed.
  • Driven - Pre-cast: metal or pre-cast concrete piles are usually top-driven using hydraulic drop hammers, some of which are super-silenced. Pre-cast concrete piles can be designed for compression and nominal tension and bending, accommodation of compression and tension, and with full moment-transfer joints
  • Sheet or Vibro: Vibratory pile hammers contain a system of counter-rotating eccentric weights, powered by hydraulic motors, and designed in such a way that horizontal vibrations cancel out, while vertical vibrations are transmitted into the pile. The pile driving machine is lifted and positioned over the pile by means of an excavator or crane, and is fastened to the pile by a clamp and/or bolts. Vibratory hammers can either drive in or extract a pile; extraction is commonly used to recover steel "H" piles used in temporary foundation shoring (sheet piling)
  • Identify excavated soils and types of rock
  • Apply first aid "At Work"

Training schedule

  • Level 2 Piling Attendant - block release to Sheffield College and CITA
  • FLT/ Telehandler Licence
  • First aid and manual handling training
  • Plant vehicle marshaller and slinger/ signaller

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade Level 2)
  • Maths (grade Level 2)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Willingness to learn
  • Punctuality

Other requirements

Travel away from home is to be expected throughout the apprenticeship, you may also need to stay away from home, a living away allowance will be given.

About this employer

Roger Bullivant Limited (RB) is a Foundation Engineering Company specialising in the design and construction of foundations for all types of buildings and structures in all kinds of ground conditions. Foundation designs are individually engineered to satisfy project and customer needs and always with an eye on value engineering.

https://www.roger-bullivant.co.uk/about/careers/vacancies/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Once the apprenticeship is completed, the individual would transfer into a Site Operative role.  The next level of progression would be Foreperson.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000339263.

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Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025

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