V05215 - Intermediate Apprentice Scaffolder
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
Cumbria (LA14 1AF)
Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
Posted on 24 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Our submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century. The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
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We offer a competitive salary with annual increases throughout the apprenticeship and a range of employee benefits including, free higher education as well as access to the Company pension and share saving scheme.
- Training course
- Scaffolder (level 2)
- Hours
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Shifts to be confirmed
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 28 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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10
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
- Undertake comprehensive training in an on-the-job and off-the-job environment
- Working as part of a qualified scaffolding team, gaining responsibility for the safe construction and dismantling of standard and bespoke working platforms, both at low levels and at height
- Attend a CITB Scaffold training course in two-week blocks, four times annually at an approved Backburn provider, gaining further practical experience in a workplace production environment
- Learn the basic skills of using relevant hand tools and machinery together with Health & Safety requirements for your role before progressing on to more in-depth training in the use of scaffolding systems and techniques
Where you'll work
BAE Systems
1st Floor, Main Shipyard Offices
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 1AF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
TRAINING 2000 LIMITED
Training course
Scaffolder (level 2)
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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.
Training schedule
Scaffolder Level 2.
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
Other requirements
Please be aware of qualification entry criteria when applying for this role. This is clearly displayed on the advert under the section qualification requirements. To be eligible for the role you must meet these entry requirements.
About this employer
At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. We employ a skilled workforce of more than 93,000 people in around 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, we develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure.
Company benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts.
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
Approximately 95% of apprentices choose to stay on with us. As a global business there are a world of opportunities - whether you decide to stay in the UK or explore an overseas role.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TRAINING 2000 LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000253.
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Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
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