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Craft bricklayer (level 3)

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Information about Craft bricklayer (level 3)

Set out and lay bricks, brick specials, blocks and other materials.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Awareness of health, safety and welfare regulations, standards, and guidance and impact on role of the team and other construction trades. Employer and employee responsibilities. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (CoSHH). Fire safety. Health and Safety at Work Act. Asbestos awareness. Manual handling. Fire extinguishers. Safety signage. Situational awareness. Slips, trips, and falls. Working in confined spaces. Working at height. Electrical safety. Reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR), Provision and use of work equipment regulations (PUWER) & near miss reporting, signage and meaning
  • Safety Control equipment and safety techniques: Personal protective equipment (PPE), respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and dust suppression
  • Types incidents - accidents, near misses. Mitigation methods. Incident management techniques
  • Safe systems of work, control measure implementation and monitoring techniques
  • Environmental management systems and standards. Environmental Protection Act. Surface water management plan, Environmental signage and notices. Types of pollution and control measures: water, noise, air pollution, smells, spills, waste and disposal of hazardous waste
  • The importance and considerations of the environment: U values, R Values, thermal bridging, airtightness, acoustic performance, and applicable building regulations
  • The principles of building construction: Fire safety, fire stopping, water ingress, masonry defects, concrete defects, timber defects and repair. Structural stability incl. brick ties. Gas barriers. Retaining walls. Mortar additives, Brick specials
  • Transfer levels, methods and techniques; straight edge and spirit level, optical and laser levels
  • Modern Methods of Construction: Timber frame. Steel frame, Insulated Concrete Forms, Modular and concrete frames, Cross Laminated Timber Frames
  • The principles of heritage building, considerations, like for like wall replacement and other techniques applicable to the bricklayer
  • Standards and regulations associated with bricklaying activities: British standards, building regulations, warranty provider standards and new homes quality board
  • Methods of interpreting information from drawings, specifications, the production plan and producing work instructions, utilising traditional and digital methods
  • Resource quantity calculation techniques, costing, wastage and recycling allowance
  • Stock, material stock and considerations: Availability, stock lead times. Correct handling to prevent damage. Stock value. Faulty stock and returns process, stock rotation and quality control
  • Craft bricklayer tools, safe use and maintenance techniques: sliding bevels, trammels, squares, straight edges, site protractors, spring dividers, angle rules and scutch and masonry cut off saws
  • Powertools check, safe use, maintenance and storage, defect or fault escalation
  • Craft brickwork techniques: basket weave, stack bond, victorian weave, segmental and semi arches, rough and axed, battered work, tumbling in, brick and block bonded quoins, dog toothing and dental courses
  • Axed arches and surrounding haunch brickwork: Setting out and construction techniques
  • Curved on plan masonry: setting out and construction techniques
  • Sloped (vertical angles on plan) brickwork setting out and construction techniques
  • Decorative brick features and panels: setting out and construction techniques
  • Setting out and construction techniques: herringbone panels and masonry corbelling
  • Masonry reinforcement and specialist systems masonry purpose and use: Bed joint reinforcement, shelf angle, wind posts, helical bar and specialist DPC (damp proof course) systems
  • Angled on plan, off square masonry, setting out and construction techniques
  • Fireplaces and chimney setting out, construction and materials: hearths, plinths, flue liners and chimney pots
  • Written communication techniques. Plain English principles
  • Documentation methods and requirements - digital and paper based
  • Planning, work scheduling, and time management techniques for self and others
  • Quality assurance requirements
  • Well-being: mental and physical health considerations in self and others and how to access support
  • Inclusion, equity and diversity in the workplace

  Skills

  • 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

  Behaviours

  • Take personal responsibility for their own health and safety
  • Support an inclusive culture
  • Take responsibility for the quality of work and encourage others to work to high standards
  • Collaborate and promote teamwork across disciplines and external stakeholders
  • Committed to continued professional development (CPD) to maintain and enhance competence in their own area of practice
  • Promotes health, safety, environment and sustainability principles to others
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Construction and the built environment
• Qualification level: 3; Equal to A level
• Course duration: 18 months
• Maximum funding: £10,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Craft bricklayer
  • Foreman bricklayer
  • Senior bricklayer

View more information about Craft bricklayer (level 3) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.