Bricklayer Careers

Work Environment:

As a bricklayer, you'd repair and construct chimney stacks, tunnel liners, walls, and artistic stonework such as archways. You'd also renovate masonry and brickwork on restoration ventures. Usual jobs can include a housing extension to a big business projects.

Being a bricklayer, your job would comprise:

• measuring the area of work and beginning the primary courses and wet course
• combining mortar by automatic mixer or by hand
• placing the bricks above each other brick and laying the mortar by a trowel

• trimming and shaping bricks utilizing power tools, hammers and chisels
• examining that courses are in a straight line utilizing plumb lines and laser spirit or water levels

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You don't require official qualifications to be a bricklayer, although employers/firms would prefer you to have work experience. If you've not functioned in the construction field before, you can consider searching a work as a laborer to gain site work experience. When working, your firm/employer might be ready to provide you training into bricklaying.

You might be capable to gain entry in this work by a scheme of Traineeship with a construction company. The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on the regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from workers.

To gain entry to a Traineeship, you might require GCSE grades into subjects like design and technology, mathematics, and English, or professional qualifications like the BTEC: Preliminary Diploma/Certificate into Construction.

Then again, you can acquire an academy course into bricklaying. This course would train you with some skills, which are required for this work, although employers might still prefer to have work experience.

Related courses consist of:

• Diploma into Construction: bricklaying by BTEC
• Advanced or Intermediate Construction Qualification (Trowel Work: Bricklaying) by CSkills
• Certificate into Fundamental Construction Skills: Bricklaying by City and Guilds

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Training Details:

You can acquire First to Third levels NVQ qualifications into Trowel Occupations, when you're working. The NVQ qualification includes modules in:

• making mortars
• constructing masonry framework
• specifying areas of work
• placing blocks and bricks

CSCS: Construction Skills-Certification Scheme

Numerous construction contractors nowadays prefer you to have a CSCS card to operate at their worksites. This card is verification of your competency and abilities. To obtain your CSCS card you should:

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

Traditional Building-Skills Bursary Program

This program aspires to concentrate on shortage of skills in the conventional crafts and built heritage section, by providing bursaries and arranging work related training-placements for qualified candidates.

See the website of the Traditional Building-Skills Bursary Scheme, for further information on the placements available, eligibility and scheme.

Skills and knowledge:

• the capability to work precisely and systematically
• physically fit
• the capability to understand plans
• an understanding of safety measures, particularly while moving loads and operating at heights
• excellent practical abilities
• the capability to work with different tradespersons and as member of a team

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Earnings of bricklaying laborer can be about £16,000 for a year.
• Eligible bricklayers can receive around £17,000 to £24,000 annually.
• Annual income of experienced bricklayers, comprising instructors, can be about £32,000.

Working Conditions:

You'd generally work weekly for about 40 hours, on weekdays, though sometimes you may have to work overtime at evenings and weekends.

You'd employ a lot of working time outdoors in all climate conditions, and this work can be physically challenging. You can operate at heights by scaffolding, and you'll be anticipated to utilize protecting tools, like boots and safety helmets.

You'd voyage to different worksite, and few contracts might include overnight-stays away from house.

Different Opportunities:

You can discover work chances with regional authorities and construction contractors. You can also establish your own firm, subcontracting your labor, with the construction contractor providing the supplies.

By experience, you can advance to clerk of works or site supervisor positions, or associated fields, like construction management and estimating. By more training, you can operate as a brick laying instructor at a college or training center.

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