Window Fitter Careers

Work Environment:

Being a window fitter you'd put in substitute or new windows, glassy curtain walls and conservatories into businesses and homes. You may work with conventional metal and wooden framed articles with latest UPVC modules.

You'd usually be supported by a fitter's assistant. Your tasks would contain:

• taking out older doors and windows by power devices and hand
• calculating the area for the new doors/windows
• fitting the modules in place, ensuring that they're safe and level

• making installations weatherproof by sealing them
• clearing out leftover substances and rectifying damages to interior plasterwork or timber

Being an experienced window fitter, you'd utilize your skills to restore and repair windows and glazing in older monuments or buildings.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

For this work you can apply straight to glazing firms. Any experience into joinery and carpentry may be useful in acquiring a job at entry level as a fitter's assistant.

Though qualifications are not necessary, a few employers might want GCSE grades (A-C) with subjects such as English, design and technology, and Mathematics, or corresponding qualifications like the Preliminary Diploma or Certificate into Construction by BTEC.

You might be capable to enter in this profession by accomplishing a Traineeship through a glazing firm. The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on the regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers/companies want from employees.

You might require a driving license for voyaging between worksites.

Training Details:

You'd generally be provided with introduction training as you initiate work, consisting of health and safety, installation and removal of window frameworks, customer-service, and associated paperwork. You'd then operate along with an experienced window fitter.

You might be motivated to acquire the vocational qualifications as given below:

• NVQ: Second level into Fenestration Installation
• NVQ: Third level into Fenestration Installation and Surveying
• NVQ: Second and Third levels into Glazing

You can boost your career perspective by acquiring short career development training courses provided by Glass-Training Ltd., with subject matters like team progress, health and safety, and communications. They also provide an advanced employee development scheme which can be customized to your particular training requirements. Visit the website of Glass Training Ltd. for additional information.

CSCS: Construction Skills-Certification Scheme

Several construction contractors nowadays persist that you have a CSCS-card to operate at their worksites. This card is verification of your competency and skills. To acquire your card you should:

• get through with a health and safety evaluation
• include an NVQ or corresponding qualification

Skills and knowledge:

• the capability to arrange and plan out work schedule to meet up targets
• excellent skills of customer-service
• the capability to work by yourself and as member of a smaller group
• a consciousness of secure working-practices while dealing with glass
• physically fit and healthy
• practical-skills
• Mathematical proficiency to do precise measurements and modifications

Salary and Other Benefits:

• A window fitter's assistant can receive around £13,000 to £16,000 annually.
• Certified window fitters can get about £21,000.
• Earnings of experienced fitters with added responsibilities can be around £32,000.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for about 41 hours, on weekdays; though you may have to do overtimes to meet up targets.

You could be working either outside or indoors, utilizing scaffolding or stepladders to get to the building's upper floors. The job can be physically challenging, as some bulky lifting included.

Different Opportunities:

You might discover work chances with big national companies or small firms. Employment openings are publicized by the regional newspapers, websites or by contacting directly to firms.

By experience, you could be an estimator or window surveyor, or proceed to associated fields, like glazing sales and marketing.

Ultimately, you can establish your own enterprise, or undertake a franchise of window fitting.

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