Apprenticeship training course
Craft bricklayer (level 3)
Set out and lay bricks, brick specials, blocks and other materials.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - 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. - Also known as
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- Craft bricklayer
- Foreman bricklayer
- Senior bricklayer
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance
- Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations standards and systems for example segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work and control measures
- Comply with industry standards, guidance and tolerances
- Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression and PPE
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications and the production plan to provide work instructions
- Check, safely use and store power tools and equipment for example, drills, mixers. Escalate defects or faults
- Safely use and maintain tools and masonry cut off saws
- Calculate resource and cost quantities from site measurements
- Set out and build sloped (vertical on plan) angled brickwork for example, battered work or tumbling in
- Set out and build off square horizontal on plan angled masonry work for example: obtuse or acute angles
- Set out and build axed arches and surrounding haunch brickwork, for example segmental or semi
- Set out and build a decorative brick features, for example brick and block bonded quoins, dog toothing or dental courses
- Set out and build curved masonry work for example, concave or convex
- Set out and build a decorative panel. For example, basket weave, stack bond or victorian weave
- Construct walls with complex elements. For example, bed joint reinforcement, helical bar, wind posts, support angles, specialist DPC systems or heritage principles (like for like wall replacement)
- Set out and build herringbone panels
- Set out and building masonry corbelling
- Apply planning, work scheduling and time management techniques to identify and agree production plan targets
- Apply quality assurance procedures
- Communicate and report in written form any issues against the production plan and contribute to the solutions
- Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital. For example, job sheets, time sheets, risk assessments, method statements, equipment service records, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, incident reports, requisition sheets, quality records
- Transfer levels, using for example straight edge & spirit level, optical or laser levels
Full information on Craft bricklayer (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.