Apprentice plumber

The job

You work beside one licensed plumber, in their van, on real service calls. In the first months you carry, set up, protect floors, and learn the van stock. After that you take on more of each job under supervision: a trap, a tap cartridge, a toilet fill valve, a section of pipe. We register you as an apprentice and pay the tuition for your classroom hours. Your pay rises each time you pass an apprenticeship step.

A normal day

You meet your plumber at the first address at 7:30. A day is four to six calls, and your plumber explains what they find and why before they fix it. From the third month you write up some job notes yourself. You keep a logbook of the work you have done, and your plumber signs it each week for your apprenticeship record. You do not join the on-call rota in your first year; after that, only beside a plumber. You finish by 16:00.

What you need

• No plumbing experience
• A driving licence
• A background check before the trial day
• Able to lift 25 kg and work under sinks and in crawl spaces
• Classroom days on the schedule your apprenticeship sets

What we provide

• Pay every Friday, with a raise at every apprenticeship step
• Tuition for your classroom hours, and those days paid
• Your own hand tool kit once you start
• One plumber to learn from, not a different one every day
• A paid trial day beside a licensed plumber

The trial day is one paid day with one of our leads, on real jobs. At the end you both say whether it is a fit; if it is, you start the following week.