Summary
Join our team at Enhanced Carpets and Flooring in Portsmouth as an apprentice! Learn flooring types - carpets, vinyl, luxury vinyl tiles, safety flooring. Attend training at North London College. Gain hands-on experience with qualified installers. No experience required. Apply now!
Wage
£13,312 a year
Wages are paid last day of each month.
Training course
Floorlayer (level 2)
Hours
Starting times vary due to sites we work on from around a 6.30am start to no later than 8.00am start. Most days are 8-hours, any hours over this are paid as overtime at basic rate. Frequent weekend work. Exact working days and hours TBC
40 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 24 February
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Duties could include:
* Prepare the work site including, acclimatisation or materials, setting out the work, and preparing of the subfloor
* Plan, measure, cut, and install floorcoverings to the project drawing and specification
* Preparation and mixing of materials as per manufacturers guidelines
Where you’ll work
UNIT 15
VICTORY BUSINESS CENTRE
SOMERS ROAD NORTH
PORTSMOUTH
PO1 1PJ
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
FLOORTRAIN (GB) LIMITED
Your training course
Floorlayer (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
* Comply with health and safety regulations, standard and guidance.
* Select and safety control equipment, use personal protective equipment (PPE) and respiratory protective equipment (RPE).
* Verbally communicate with others: For example, employers, colleagues, clients, other trades.
* Use written or digital methods to communicate with others.
* Calculate material quantities, qualities and select required resources.
* Remove and dispose of existing floorcovering.
* Isolate, protect and prepare the work area.
* Test the subfloor condition prior to the application of the smoothing compound and fabricated underlayment: for example, remove surface contaminants and laitance, mix and apply moisture control systems, apply of primers.
* Prepare the sub floor for the floorcovering: for example, installation of fabricated underlayments, mixing and application of smoothing compounds, installation of sheet membranes.
* Interpret and use information from drawings, specifications, work instructions.
* Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
* Carry out pre-user checks, use and maintain plant and equipment. Escalate defects or faults.
* Store tools, materials and equipment.
* Measures, marks and sets out floorcoverings.
* Resolves problems with timber subflooring prior to a flooring installation.
* Select and use textile and resilient floorcovering tools and equipment.
* Carry out remedial works on textile and resilient flooring.
* Use of tools and equipment required for the preparation and installation of resilient and textile floorcovering including setting out, stretching, cutting, adhesives, joining and finishing.
* Determine correct textile pile direction for the installation area.
* Carry out pattern matching for textile or resilient floorcovering.
* Apply installation techniques for underlayments for textile floorcoverings.
* Applies installation technique for resilient sheet for example tiled, flat fit, site formed (cap and cove) and joins.
* Applies installation techniques for textile floorcovering, for example woven secondary backed, broadloom sheet.
* Applies installation techniques for finishing accessories for example, thresholds, skirtings, profiles, stair nosings and trims.
* Set out horizontal, inclined, stepped and shaped or coved surface, patterned and non-patterned materials.
* Use and maintenance of hand tools used in the preparation and installation of wood-based floorcoverings.
* Use wood-based floorcovering power tools and equipment.
* Use local exhaust ventilation (LEV) equipment.
* Determine correct expansion gaps in wood-based floorcoverings considering; temperature, relative humidity (RH), manufacturer guidelines, area and wood type.
* Apply installation techniques for underlayments for wood-based floorcoverings.
* Apply techniques for setting out, cutting, and matching wood-based floorcoverings.
* Select fixing method for the wood-based floorcovering installation for example nail down, glue down, floating.
* Use sanding equipment on installed or refurbished wood-based floorcovering.
* Use finishing techniques and products for example: hard wax, oil, stains and sealants.
* Apply installation techniques for finishing accessories for example, thresholds, skirtings, profiles, stair nosings and trims.
* Carry out remedial work on wood-based floorcoverings.
* Apply installation techniques for floating and fixed wood-based floorcoverings.
* Comply with health and safety regulations, standard and guidance.
* Select and safety control equipment, use personal protective equipment (PPE) and respiratory protective equipment (RPE).
* Verbally communicate with others: For example, employers, colleagues, clients, other trades.
* Use written or digital methods to communicate with others.
* Calculate material quantities, qualities and select required resources.
* Remove and dispose of existing floorcovering.
* Isolate, protect and prepare the work area.
* Test the subfloor condition prior to the application of the smoothing compound and fabricated underlayment: for example, remove surface contaminants and laitance, mix and apply moisture control systems, apply of primers.
* Prepare the sub floor for the floorcovering: for example, installation of fabricated underlayments, mixing and application of smoothing compounds, installation of sheet membranes.
* Interpret and use information from drawings, specifications, work instructions.
* Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
* Carry out pre-user checks, use and maintain plant and equipment. Escalate defects or faults.
* Store tools, materials and equipment.
* Measures, marks and sets out floorcoverings.
* Resolves problems with timber subflooring prior to a flooring installation.
Your training plan
* Floorlayer NVQ Level 2 course (2 years)
On site training provided
No skills required
One day per month at North London Training Centre
Rest of the time will be learning to install flooring in the Portsmouth area
More training information
Apprentice is liable to attend site on their own once per month making their way from the Portsmouth area to Walthamstow (North London). Travel costs will not be re-imbursed. We will try to factor dates in with our other apprentices so as not travelling alone.
Requirements
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Customer care skills
* Problem solving skills
* Presentation skills
* Number skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
Works include heavy lifting and occasional unsociable hours. The successful applicant will need to be CIS registered for tax purposes as for the first three months will be on a probational period. No training college enrolment will be provided until these first three months have been served.