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Lee Marley Appoints Training Manager for Brickwork & Scaffolding

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Lee Marley Brickwork Ltd has appointed Christian Hatherall-Good as the companyโ€™s Training Manager.

Lee Marley Brickwork (LMB) currently offers both brickwork and scaffolding apprenticeships in order to bring the next generation of tradesmen into the construction industry.

Christian, bringing 25 years of experience in construction and education, will be charged with developing LMBโ€™s programme further and capitalising on the recent change in the pathway of apprenticeship funding that gives employers greater flexibility on delivering the training that they need.

What sets LMBโ€™s award-winning programmes apart from others is a combination of behavioural coaching and up to the minute technical instruction. The training offered goes beyond current apprenticeship requirements with specialist modules focussing on modern methods of construction, fire safety and quality assurance.

Based at their Head Office in Reading, he will be in charge of all LMB apprentices, mentoring and monitoring them throughout from the point of induction, to monitoring and delivering training,ย through to qualification.

LMBโ€™s brickwork apprentices spend four days on-site gaining real hands-on experience and one day at College while apprentice scaffolders follow a more staged block release programme. Christian is currently looking after 26 brickwork and 9 scaffold apprentices, he has students working on sites such as Oval Village Vauxhall with Berkeley Homes and Chelsea Barracks for Multiplex.

Many of the companyโ€™s current apprentices are from Brooklands College where he worked for over 8 years as Head of Construction Curriculum and as a bricklaying tutor. But a key part of Christianโ€™s role will be building relationships with other colleges and local authorities in order to identify new talent to join the LMB apprenticeship scheme.

Christian, who holds aย Professional Certificate in Education focused in Education from Greenwich University, will also oversee personal development and upskilling of LMBโ€™s current operatives including identifying recent graduates of the apprenticeship programme that show managerial promise and encouraging them to take on more responsibility under the wing of an experienced site supervisor and are supported through their SSSTS and SMSTS for brickwork supervisors or their Advanced Scaffolder or CISRS Supervisor qualification for scaffolders.

The next step forย LMB will then be to open their own training centre that would be at the forefront of brickwork and scaffolding training in the UK.ย Christian is in the process of looking at funding and accreditation for this, watch this space!

Christian said: โ€œWe are working on creating the best brickwork and scaffolding training centre in the UK. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for me to be involved from early planning stages in creating a training centre from scratch, delivering the latest methods and models of construction and traditional brickwork skills.โ€

LMB Managing Director Lee Marley commented โ€œAs a former apprentice bricklayer I appreciate the opportunities that a quality apprenticeship can off a young man or women. It is also essential for the construction industry to encourage young talent into the sector and focus on evolving skills in order to improve productivityโ€

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