V03101 - Intermediate Apprentice Scaffolding

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

Cumbria, LA14 1AF

Closes on Friday 28 February

Posted on 8 November 2024


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.

Annual wage
Competitive

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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
Shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 22 September

Duration

3 years 6 months

Positions available

5

Work

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

As an apprentice scaffolder, you'll spend three and a half years receiving comprehensive training whilst you work as part of a qualified and competent scaffolding team. You will be trained to take responsibility for the safe construction and dismantling of working platforms at our sites.

You will undertake a CITB Scaffold training course, which involves attending a two week block of scaffolding training four times a year at an approved training provider in Blackburn, you will gain further evidence for this working in the workplace production environment. You will 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. 

As an apprentice scaffolder you will receive comprehensive training in an on-the-job and off-the-job environment. This training will combine both the skills and knowledge you will require to qualify you as a scaffolder, capable of constructing and dismantling standard and bi-spoke working platforms at low levels and at height. 
You will start to learn about the structure of the company and will be given an insight into the World of Engineering. As you progress you will complete all components of your apprenticeship

Where you’ll work

BAE Systems

1st Floor, Main Shipyard Offices

Barrow-in-Furness

Cumbria

LA14 1AF

Training

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.

College or training organisation

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

Your training course

Scaffolder (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

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.

Your training plan

  • 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:

  • 3 GCSEs inc Maths & English (grade A*- E or 9-2 (or equivalent))

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

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working

About this company

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.

https://www.baesystems.com/en/careers/careers-in-the-uk/early-careers?_gl=1*1dac9gj*_gcl_au*MTM5MjI5 (opens in new tab)

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

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.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BAE SYSTEMS PLC

Early Careers Recruitment Team

GART@baesystems.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000285861.

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Closes on Friday 28 February

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