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Work Environment:

Being a glazier, you'd fit panes of glass within businesses and houses, e.g. fitting windows within newer office or fixing double glazing in a home. You'd also perform glass-repairs.

In a project of glass replacement, you'd:

  • take out the damaged or older panes, utilizing tools such as pliers, chisels, and suction pads
  • clear out the putty/beading from frameworks
  • choose the right glass, e.g. hardened security glass in a bank or plate glass in a shop
  • fix the newer glass panes
  • build the fixing watertight utilizing lead and aluminum flashing, sealants or rubber strips

Generally, you'd use custom made panes of glass, which are cut in size within a workshop earlier, though you might be required to do few smaller changes and shape parts at site, by wheel/diamond cutting equipment.

In addition to fixing glass, you can also work into the production of glazed modules, like UPVS/timber framed doors and windows. By experience, you might be capable to utilize your abilities in special projects, e.g. on older buildings or churches.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You don't require any particular qualifications, although employers prefer people having some work experience. You can work as a laborer or assistant of glazier to get work experience, if you've not worked into construction field before. When you're employed, your employer/company might be ready to give you training of glazing fitting.

An academy course, like as a Construction-Award, will train you with some skills required for this work, although employers might still prefer you to encompass some work experience. For course information and admission requirements, confirm with your regional colleges.

You might be capable to gain entry to this profession by a scheme of Traineeship with a Building or glazing company. The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on the regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from employees.

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

See the website of Construction Skills, for further details regarding construction qualifications and careers. The Know Your-Place campaign aspires to endorse the construction business as an option of career for women.

Training Details:

You can acquire qualifications like Second and Third Levels NVQ in Glazing, when you begin working. The NVQ qualification has choices in health and safety, cutting and shaping glass, and installation, with optional modules comprising:

  • safety glazing
  • overhead fitting, e.g. glass roofing
  • fixing glass floors and stairs
  • shop-fronts
You can take Second and Third levels NVQ into Fenestration Installation and Surveying, or Second and Third levels in Production of Glass Supporting Fabrications, if you're working in the assembly of premanufactured glazed modules.

Contact the Glass Qualifications Authority and Glass Training Ltd., for further details regarding qualifications and training centers providing assessment for installation and glazing NVQ qualifications.

You can also acquire the Degree into Glass-Manufacturing Management, provided by Wake-field College together with Leeds-Metropolitan University. The qualification will assist you to advance to managerial or supervisory posts.

CSCS: Construction Skills-Certification Scheme

Nowadays, many construction contractors prefer to you encompass a CSCS card to operate at their worksites. This card is evidence of your competency and abilities. To obtain your CSCS card you should:

  • encompass a NVQ or similar qualification
  • get though with a health and safety evaluation
If you're working with no qualifications, you might be capable to utilize EWPA (Experienced Worker-Practical Assessment) or OSAT (On Site Assessment and Training) to obtain your card and NVQ. For additional information, contact CSCS.

Skills and knowledge:

  • excellent customer-service abilities
  • the capability to make precise measurements for cutting glass
  • an artistic approach to shape and color for few works
  • outstanding practical abilities
  • the capability to work by yourself and as member of a group
  • an understanding of safety measures, specifically while operating at heights
  • excellent mathematical abilities for doing calculations
  • the capability to comprehend plans and designs
  • physically fit
  • a systematic and careful manner to work

Salary and Other Benefits:

  • Initial remunerations can be around £14,000 to £15,000 for a year.
  • By qualifications, the earnings can boost to about £21,000.
  • And experienced glaziers having extra duties can get around £22,000 to £24,000.
Shift and overtime payments may raise earnings. Freelance glaziers settle their own charges.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for around 38 to 41 hours, which can comprise out of hours tasks for emergency reinstatement of damaged glass.

Few works would include operating at heights by suspended cradles, ladders or scaffolding. You'd generally put on protective outfit, like safety hat and gloves.

You'd travel between different worksites. Few contracts might include staying away from house for some duration.

Different Opportunities:

You can work with companies which cut, install and sell glass panes for construction firms, or with shopfitting firms, regional authorities and public associations. You may also find work chances with glazing companies which specialize into repairs for offices and shops, conservatory construction, or glass roofing.

By experience, you can advance to supervisor or technician position. You may also operate as a freelance glazier, working on subcontract basis.

You can also move into automotive business, replacing and repairing wind-screens on automobiles.

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