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Building Maintenance

THIS IS A GREAT DEPARTMENT TO JOIN AND THERE WILL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ALL ASPECTS OF LIGHT BUILDING WORK. YOUR TRAINING HERE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD BACKGROUND TO GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP COURSE WHEN YOU LEAVE OR GAINING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

Building Maintenance

THIS IS A GREAT DEPARTMENT TO JOIN AND THERE WILL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ALL ASPECTS OF LIGHT BUILDING WORK. YOUR TRAINING HERE WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD BACKGROUND TO GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP COURSE WHEN YOU LEAVE OR GAINING FUTURE EMPLOYMENT.

Our Building Maintenance Department can help you to...

  • Get your licence to work on sites (CSCS Card)
  • Get Working at Heights, Manual Handling & Emergency First Aid qualifications
  • Learn basework, bricklaying and brickwork repair
  • Do block paving and concreting
  • Gain a range of light building experience
  • An NVQ L2 in bricklaying may be possible
  • No prior experience is necessary as full training is given

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Learning basics of the trade and gaining work experience.

Complete Level 1 basic theory course.

  • CSCS
  • Driving Theory
  • Emergency First Aid
  • Manual handling
  • Working at Heights
  • Health & Safety

Examples of dept skills you can learn:

  • Using a trowel
  • Making a mix
  • Building a range of different walls and corners
  • Gutter
  • Gulley
  • Brickwork repair
  • Drains
  • Experience on a range of power tools
  • Basework – basic setting out of walls
  • Block paving
  • Rendering practice
  • Plastering practice

Increasing work experience and skill level.

Complete Level 2 basic theory course

By the end of Level 2, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire:

  • CSCS
  • Driving Theory
  • Emergency First Aid
  • Manual handling
  • Working at Heights
  • Health & Safety

Examples of dept skills you can learn:

  • Using a trowel
  • Making a mix
  • Building a range of different walls and corners
  • Gutter
  • Gulley
  • Brickwork repair
  • Drains
  • Experience on a range of power tools
  • Basework – basic setting out of walls
  • Block paving
  • Rendering practice
  • Plastering practice

Trainees who prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.

Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some part of the following:

  • Driving practical
  • Bricklaying NVQ
  • CPCS licence for digger or dumper

Building Department Social Highlights

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Surveying the work #building ... See MoreSee Less

Surveying the work #building

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Levelling up #building

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Road repair and resurfacing #building #estate ... See MoreSee Less

Road repair and resurfacing #building #estate

The firepit is live! Great work from #building and #metalwork and lots of fun for #foundationlife ... See MoreSee Less

The firepit is live! Great work from #building and #metalwork and lots of fun for #foundationlife

Well done to everyone who received certificates this month. #building #painting #estate #Landscaping #metalwork #carpentry #foundationlife ... See MoreSee Less

Well done to everyone who received certificates this month.   #building #painting #estate #landscaping #metalwork #carpentry #foundationlifeImage attachmentImage attachment+3Image attachment

The Firepit. No it's not Mallorca, it's Cowfold. I GOT A TEXT.... Can everyone please gather round the firepit. The public have been voting, and.....Darren there is not going to be a re-coupling........you are going home 🤣
Seriously now, the firepit is looking fabulous and the #builders are doing a great job so well done to everyone in the department and Darren. #foundationlife #carpentry #metalwork #estate #building
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The Firepit.   No its not  Mallorca,  its  Cowfold.   I GOT A TEXT.... Can everyone please gather round the firepit.  The public have been voting,  and.....Darren there is not going to be a re-coupling........you are going home   🤣
Seriously now, the firepit is looking fabulous and the #builders are doing a great job so well done to everyone in the department and Darren.  #foundationlife #carpentry #metalwork #estate #building
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