CoTrain Vacancies

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Current Vacancies

Any questions about a vacancy? Contact our Apprenticeship Managers; Mark Pope: 07483 172916Sarah Hall : 07483 919590 and Helen Banning : 07853 282490

Summary

An opportunity to start an apprenticeship as a scaffolder with CoTrain has become available in Oxford. Working on a large commercial project 80% of the time with the other 20% being spent at college. Scaffolding is usually taught in week blocks so staying away from home for a week should be expected.


What we're looking for

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.


What you’ll do at work

  • 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 independently 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


Where you’ll work

Heatley Road

Oxford

OX4 4GE

For more details on this vacancy, click here.

To apply please email CV’s to mark.pope@secbe.org.uk

Summary

Wish to employ x2 Apprentice Formworkers from the Enfield Area to work on various commercial projects. The work will be physical and varied each day and you will learn life-time skills. This 18 month apprenticeship will get your foot onto the first rung of the ladder for a career in construction.


What we're looking for

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.


What you’ll do at work

  • Working safely and wearing the correct PPE you will build frames from different maerils so that concrete can be poured into these frames to produce the structure of the building being erected.
  • Above will be done in stages on a schedule so that the main structure of the building is built accurately and to the correct quality.
  • You will learn wood working skills, concrete terminology and different mixes used for diffrnt parts of the building.
  • Install re-inforcement materials where necessary as specified by the architect and the drawings. 
  • Remove frames once concrete is set and check quality and dimensions to the correct drawings.
  • Use of hand and power tools will be required for this role and training will be given on their correct safe use.
  • Work will b minly outside and some working at heights will be required.


Where you’ll work

7 Donkey Lane

Enfield

EN1 3PL

For more details on this vacancy, click here.

To apply please email CV’s to mark.pope@secbe.org.uk

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