ELECTRICAL APPRENTICESHIPS
Our apprentices are our
team leaders and managers of the future
We’ve trained hundreds of electrical apprentices since establishing our first in-house training centre in 1998. As a Top 100 Apprentice Employer, we’re proud to offer one of the most successful apprenticeship programmes in the country.
A UNIQUE ELECTRICAL APPRENTICESHIP
An apprenticeship with Clarkson Evans means you will be employed by us and also trained by us, not by a local college. You’ll gain a nationally recognised qualification while starting a structured internal career path.
Your role as an electrical apprentice
You’ll work as part of a team of two or three on large new housing sites. Training is designed to help you quickly progress so you can expect to be making a real contribution to completing wiring installations from week one.
The training you will receive
All of your training will take place in-house. Practical training will be delivered by your team leader on site and the theory training you’ll need for passing exams will be through remote learning for one day a week.
Career progression opportunities
We recruit apprentices with an offer of long-term career progression, not just a four-year programme. That’s why we look for people with the talent and desire to become our future team leaders or managers.
YOUR ROLE AS AN ELECTRICAL APPRENTICE
As an electrical apprentice with Clarkson Evans you’ll play an important role in a team. You can expect to work hard in what can be a tough environment (especially in winter) but you’ll also be well rewarded. Watch our video to see more about what to expect.
CAREER PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES
To be a successful apprentice at Clarkson Evans, training with us needs to be part of a long-term ambition to climb the career ladder with us, or to maximise the lifelong earnings that can be achieved by completing ‘price work’ in the new-build housing sector. Rather than our apprenticeship being designed to be a route into self-employment or other types of electrical work, we focus on developing our future managers and long-serving team leaders.
70% of our managers in technical roles first joined the company as apprentices. After gaining experience on site, some people rapidly progress into office-based or management roles or even teaching. There’s also a team leader grading structure that allows people to progress to earning higher fix rates and more holidays if they would prefer to continue working on site.
With a range of structured career paths, we’re pleased to be able to offer a variety of long-term options for those who ‘graduate’ from our apprenticeship programme.
THE TRAINING YOU WILL RECEIVE
You’ll complete an Advanced Electrotechnical Apprenticeship - the same electrical apprenticeship qualification available at many colleges. Most of your practical training will happen on site but for the all-important qualifications you need to gain, our in-house team of lecturers have created a programme that blends classroom-based lessons with practical workshop sessions and some distance learning.
Usually you’ll spend one day a week attending training with a group of up to 12 other apprentices, either in-person at one of our training centres (Gloucester, Bracknell, Exeter, Birmingham or Milton Keynes) or from home via Microsoft Teams.
During the days you’re working on site, your team leader will train you to master increasingly complex tasks. Most of our team leaders have benefitted from our career progression opportunities after completing the apprenticeship themselves so they know the importance of high-quality on-the-job training.
The final stage to becoming a qualified electrician is the AM2S end-point practical assessment and you’ll either complete this at our centre in Gloucester or at another AM2 centre closer to home.
APPRENTICE PAY
Our apprentices are rewarded for their contribution to work completed by their team; the more productive their team is, the more apprentices get paid.
At the start of the apprenticeship, you will be paid at least the minimum rate of pay you’re entitled to as an apprentice but, right from the start, our productivity bonus is an incentive to work efficiently.
This graph shows the approximate weekly earnings of current Clarkson Evans apprentices at different stages of their apprenticeship. Keep in mind that these are average earnings so some apprentices are earning more than this and some are earning less.
The number of years it will take to complete your apprenticeship will vary depending on your previous experience and qualifications. It could take up to four years to complete.
Once qualified, many of our electricians go on to become Team Leaders at Clarkson Evans. Our Team Leaders currently earn £950 per week on average.
WHERE YOU'LL WORK
We employ apprentices who are based at all of our 21 branches across the country. The work itself takes place on housing development sites within an hour’s drive of the local branch
All of the work we do is on new-build housing developments being constructed by major national housebuilders such as Barratt, Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon. As a Clarkson Evans apprentice you would be based at one of our branches but you may only visit the branch to collect materials, meet colleagues or perhaps attend training. Your day-to-day work would be on building sites, usually within an hour’s drive of the branch.
To see if we have a branch near you, view our
branch network map. We recruit at most of our branches at different times of the year so if we are not currently advertising for apprenticeships in your area, please register your details and we’ll contact you when we begin our recruitment process for your nearest branch.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
To be considered for an electrical apprenticeship with us you’ll need to be:
- Aged 18 or over (due to health & safety restrictions). Our apprentices tend to be a bit older than in many businesses, with an average starting age of 23.
- Qualified to drive
- Good at English and maths. Normally we look for GCSE Grade C/4 or above but we also carry out our own testing as part of the selection process
- A practical person who enjoys DIY
- Interested in developing a long-term career with us
- Flexible and willing to accept that it won’t be a 9-to-5 job. You’ll need to be prepared for early starts and unpredictable late finishes occasionally.
- Resilient enough to work through challenging weather conditions on site and to cope with the demands of what can be a tough working environment
