Level 2 Bricklaying Apprentice

Summary

This employer if offering a Level 2 Bricklaying Apprenticeship for the right candidate. If you are looking to get your Level 2 Bricklaying qualification through an apprenticeship, then please apply.

Wage

£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course

Bricklayer (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday between 9am - 5pm.

30 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 2 July 2025

Duration

2 years 3 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

Block Laying: Cavity walling, including openings, brick inspection chambers, joint finishes, setting out a square, and setting out to a gauge rod and/or profiles.
Interpreting Drawings and Specifications: Accurately follow plans and specifications.
Setting Out Work Areas: Measure and set out level first courses of bricks to a plan, including bonds for openings and damp courses.
Mixing Mortar: By hand or with a mechanical mixer.
Laying Bricks: To set dimensions and applying mortar with a trowel to completion.
Repair and Renewal: Repair and renew masonry structures.

Where you'll work

Marsh Mills Roundabout
Plympton
PL6 8LX

Training

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

College or training organisation

GREENLIGHT TRAINING 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

Training will take place at our centre in Plympton.
You will be required to come into college 2 consecutive days every 2 weeks.

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

Attention to detail
Team working

Other requirements

This apprenticeship will require working outdoors in all weather conditions.

About this company

PM Bricklaying company based in Plymouth, looking to expand and give apprentices the opportunity to learn in a trade.

After this apprenticeship

There will be potential for full-time employment.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED

Alice

learning@greenlightsc.co.uk

01752 604713

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000324256.

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