Steel fixing Apprenticeship
KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.
Brackley (NN13 5GJ)
Closes on Sunday 5 April 2026
Posted on 20 February 2026
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Summary
Embarking on an apprenticeship with Kilnbridge to begin a rewarding career in the construction industry with a respected, forward‑thinking organisation known for delivering complex and iconic projects. As an apprentice, you will follow a structured development plan and receive ongoing guidance from a dedicated career mentor.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Steel fixer (level 2)
- Hours
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17 years old: Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 15:30. 40 hours, inclusive of an hour break each day.
18 years old+: Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 17:30. 45 hours, not including up to an hour break each day.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 1 May 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
As an Apprentice Steel Fixer, you will learn to assemble and erect the steel components required to strengthen reinforced concrete structures, such as bridges, culverts, railway stations, power stations, etc.
- Setting out the work area, following engineering plans
- Using hand and power tools to cut and bend bars or mesh
- Tying steel reinforcement bars (rebars) to build cages
Typically you will work within a larger team on construction projects, and, in the fullness of time, you will be able to interpret contract information, drawings and specifications, in order to assemble and install the components correctly.
Where you'll work
EKFB HS2 Shaft
Radstone Village Road
Brackley
NN13 5GJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE SKILLS CENTRE LONDON LIMITED
Training course
Steel fixer (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Protect others within the working vicinity through the use of barriers, signs, and bar protectors.
- Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Move, lift and handle materials.
- Work at height and use access and fall protection equipment.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Plan order of works and carry out pre-work checks.
- Use and store hand tools and power tools.
- Apply processes and techniques to install a range of in-situ steel reinforcing structures, for example, columns, walls, pile caps and slabs.
- Measure and mark out reinforcing steel.
- Cut and bend reinforcing steel.
- Produce and install supports, for example, L bars, U bars, splay bars and chairs.
- Join and tie reinforcing steel.
- Use temporary construction bars.
- Install bracing within steel reinforcement.
- Communicate verbally with colleagues or customers using industry terminology.
- Complete post build checks.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion legislative guidance and principles.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Follow environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use processes and techniques to build reinforcing steel assembly with a: step, penetration or upstand feature.
- Follow work instructions - verbal or written.
- Applies team working principles.
- Follow quality assurance procedures.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Select and use personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Protect others within the working vicinity through the use of barriers, signs, and bar protectors.
- Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
- Move, lift and handle materials.
- Work at height and use access and fall protection equipment.
- Interpret information from drawings and specifications.
- Plan order of works and carry out pre-work checks.
- Use and store hand tools and power tools.
- Apply processes and techniques to install a range of in-situ steel reinforcing structures, for example, columns, walls, pile caps and slabs.
- Measure and mark out reinforcing steel.
- Cut and bend reinforcing steel.
- Produce and install supports, for example, L bars, U bars, splay bars and chairs.
- Join and tie reinforcing steel.
- Use temporary construction bars.
- Install bracing within steel reinforcement.
- Communicate verbally with colleagues or customers using industry terminology.
- Complete post build checks.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion legislative guidance and principles.
- Apply ethical principles.
- Follow environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Use processes and techniques to build reinforcing steel assembly with a: step, penetration or upstand feature.
- Follow work instructions - verbal or written.
- Applies team working principles.
- Follow quality assurance procedures.
Training schedule
Level 2 Steel Fixer Apprenticeship Standard:
NVQ Level 2 in Steel Fixing
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.
More training information
CSCS Card required. If you do not have a CSCS card your application will be rejected.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- 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
The minimum age is 17 due to site restrictions and insurance implications. 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 on 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 VAC2000017104.
Apply now
Closes on Sunday 5 April 2026