Trade Apprenticeships

CAMPAIGN

During National Apprenticeship Week (7- 13 February), we want to highlight the wide range of job opportunities available as part of a career in construction. Hear from some of our apprentices and trainees below who are helping to break down the common myths about apprenticeships in construction.

07 FEBRUARY 2022

Wates Group has today announced it is joining the Northern Coalition on Skills, further expanding its footprint in the North in support of the national levelling up agenda.

CAMPAIGN

During National Apprenticeship Week (8- 14 February), we want to highlight the wide range of job opportunities available as part of a career in construction. Hear from some of our apprentices and trainees below who are helping to break down the common myths about apprenticeships in construction.

VIDEO

We are committed to raising awareness about the built environment sector and to encouraging young people, career changers and those who face barriers to employment to take a closer look at the roles required to create the places of tomorrow.

These virtual tours provide an insight to some of our projects and the people that make them happen.

BLOG

At Wates, we are continuing to invest in our young talent, to make sure they continue to develop the best skills possible, both on site and off. With many of our trainees going on to secure senior positions and with accolades like Peter Glasgow and Lewis Hough’s wins at the G4C Awards, it is clear that we are successfully doing this.

BLOG

We asked two of our promising young apprentices, Beth Turner – Production Management Trainee and Liv Nicholls – Commercial Trainee, for their thoughts on how we can encourage more people to consider construction from an early age.

VIDEO

There are a huge variety of different roles available in the built environment. Hear from some of our apprentices and trainees below who are helping to debunk the common myths about apprenticeships in construction.

06 JANUARY 2020

Construct a Career, an initiative offering a proactive and quick solution to the skills shortage facing the UK construction industry, is celebrating its first programme delivered in partnership with the Wates Group in Brent.

During National Apprenticeship Week (3-9 February), we want to highlight the wide range of job opportunities available in the built environment.  Hear from some of our apprentices and trainees who are helping to break down the common myths about apprenticeships in construction.

24 JANUARY 2020

A ground-breaking new scheme which offers prisoners paid work on construction sites is helping individuals return to the community and reduce reoffending.

30 DECEMBER 2019

Young unemployed adults in Havering have been given specialist training to help boost their employment prospects through the boroughs biggest regeneration project.

People are the lifeline of our industry. With industry growth must come more investment in the future workforce. Read more on why training is so vital to our industry.

16 SEPTEMBER 2019

A jobseeker in Maidenhead has turned his life around thanks to Wates Construction securing his first ever job following a free training scheme for the long-term unemployed.

With support from Wates Residential and funding from Wates Giving, the School of Hard Knocks has delivered its most successful course to date.

Outwood Academy students were served a table tennis masterclass from Paralympic gold medalist Will Bayley, as part of a campaign to inspire young people.

A collaborative event held at Derby College gives students a taste for construction, bridging the gap between industry and education.

The next generation of construction workers joined Budding Brunels for a three-day course hosted by Wates Construction and Construction Youth Trust.

The next generation of engineers and construction professionals take on new challenges in a three-day course at Nottingham College’s new City Hub facility

I have always wanted to work within the property and construction industry and my apprenticeship was the first step towards doing that.

Going to university is often seen as the only path to career success but with the prospect of a five-figure debt and no guaranteed job at the end of it, Julia Cox has chosen an alternative route to a future in construction.

An apprenticeship has given me the qualifications for further study at university and opened the door to a hugely rewarding and exciting career path.

Ten and 11-year-olds in Havering have been using their gaming skills to road-test and improve the design of one of the capitals biggest regeneration projects.

The refurbishment of Trellick Tower in West London has become a catalyst for long-term employment with a succession of intensive training programmes delivered in Kensington and Chelsea by housing maintenance provider, Wates Living Space.

Jobseekers in Birmingham have been given a helping hand towards a career in the built environment thanks to the Wates Building Futures Programme undertaken by Wates as the contractor currently builds The Bank development in the city centre.

The National Horizons Centre in Darlington welcomed a brand new generation of construction workers to site last week, with a visit from a group of two to five year olds from Darlington College Childcare Centre.

A group of Tamworth jobseekers are well on their way to employment after gaining skills and experience during a two-week programme delivered by Wates Living Space.

Wates Construction held a three day event designed to inspire the next generation of Derby engineers and construction professionals.

Clare Gill discusses how the training and employment landscape is evolving and the comprehensive efforts through which Wates aims to help people get into work.

Was an apprenticeship the right choice? Yes it was the best decision I could have made, and heres why. From day one Ive been exposed to so many different aspects of construction and had the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects.

The Director of Wates Construction North East encourages more young people to follow in his footsteps and consider a career in construction.

CASE STUDY

Redrock Stockport is part of Stockport Councils Investing in Growth work that is transforming Stockport town centre.

Wates Group is proud to work in partnership with Recycling Lives – an initiative that pairs jobseekers with recycling initiatives.

Leading social housing maintenance provider Wates Living Space has helped jobseekers in Leicester get back into work through its Building Futures programme.

Wates Residential and Flintshire County Council are using their delivery of the Strategic Housing and Regeneration Programme (SHARP) to significantly boost the county’s employment and training offer.

Out of work Mancunians have been offered a helping hand towards returning to employment through leading developer Wates Residential’s Building Futures programme.

CASE STUDY

The Royal Hospital Chelsea required refurbishment & remodelling of the Grade 1 listed buildings to provide modern & suitable accommodation for the future.

The Managing Director of Wates Construction Midlands and North has returned to his hometown of Barrow to encourage more young people to follow in his footsteps and consider a career in construction.

Wates Construction has demonstrated its commitment to improving employment and training opportunities in Cumbria by enrolling twelve candidates in its accredited Building Futures programme.

Wates Residential, one of the UK’s leading developers, is using its role in creating 177 homes on the site of the former Milldane high-rise block in Orchard Park to enhance the employment prospects of Hull residents.

National developer Wates Residential has joined forces with WM Housing Group to improve the career prospects of jobseekers in Coventry.

John Dunne is Director of Health, Safety, Environment & Quality for the Wates Group. Here he discusses possible solutions to the construction industry’s skills gap.

Demolition of five existing apartment blocks and eleven pre-fabricated garages and construction of 63 high-quality one and two-bedroom apartments.

“As National Apprenticeship Week (6-10 March) draws to a close this is a great opportunity to reflect back and celebrate the fantastic work of our apprentices and the benefits they bring not only to the Wates Group, but also to our clients.”

Wates Constructions delivery of the House of Lords Millbank House in Westminster and the Palace of Westminsters Life Safety Systems programme have been hailed during National Apprenticeship Week (6-10 March) as exemplar projects in addressing the industrys skills and diversity agendas.

CEG and Wates Construction have celebrated National Apprenticeship Week with the launch of a new skills centre for the Leeds community at CEGs £400m Kirkstall Forge development, where Wates is building a new seven-storey office development.

“The apprenticeship levy is coming, so we might as well make the best of it. And how we do that is by thinking smarter and working together to make the scheme succeed for us.”

Wates Construction is set to build BAE Systems new Central Training Facility in Barrow, which will cater for the companys growing number of apprentices.

Wates Construction, the leading contractor for the delivery of Brookgates One the Square office development in Cambridge, is calling for more women to consider a career in construction in a bid to increase gender equality in the industry.

“Our industry faces major skills challenges to deliver the pipeline of work that includes increased housebuilding and major infrastructure projects.”

A construction trainee in Leicester is calling for more young people to consider a career in construction in a bid to fill the growing number of job vacancies set to be generated by the sector.

Wates Construction is using its role on the East Midlands Property Alliance (empa) framework to boost prospects for jobseekers in the East Midlands and has so far delivered almost 100 employment and training opportunities for local people.

“Questions remain over the governments target of 3 million apprentices by 2020 but we owe it to generations of young (and not so young) people to change our thinking about what apprenticeships are and how we use them.”