Fencing installer (level 2)
Installing different types of fences, gates and barriers, across a broad cross-section of different environments.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£10,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards (BS1722), and guidance
- Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression and PPE
- Comply with safe systems of work and control measures
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, plans and specifications
- Select required resource for task
- Select and use hand-held tools
- Maintain safe working area
- Maintain and store hand tools
- Check, use and store power tools and mechanical plant
- Move, handle and store materials
- Locate and identify underground services to support fencing installation
- Establish fencing lines and levels
- Escalates issues and tasks
- Set out posts and fixings ready for fence installation
- Construct foundations ready for fence installation
- Identify faults and carry out a repair or reinstate defective or faulty fence: For example replacing damaged posts, infills or fence panels
- Applies team working principles to their own and the wider build team
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital for example fencing records, quality control, site records accident reporting and permits
- Communicate with others verbally, for example colleagues, other tradespeople, managers and customers
- Install fencing material
Full information on Fencing installer (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.