We’re looking for an apprentice to join our masonry team and develop into a masonry specialist. As part of your development, you’ll undertake a level 2 apprenticeships in customer service. After your training you will be encouraged to plan the next steps of your career journey with us.

The programme will include regular training and development events with other apprentices from across the business to support your personal development. You’ll have regular structured feedback sessions, and you will be assigned your own buddy to help you settle into your day-to-day role.

**Role Overview**

Working with the Masonry team you will be part of a team delivering impartial, technically accurate solutions and specifications for all products associated with the masonry wall to contractors, developers and sub-contractors.

To start with you will be learning the ropes and your duties will develop as your skills do. We aim to have you ‘up and running’ as quickly as we can, as we know that job satisfaction comes from having responsibility and autonomy, but you’ll never be left without as much support as you need.

**Responsibilities**

Our masonry team helps customers choose the right products and solutions for their needs. You’ll need to be confident on the telephone and have a good eye for detail to take. Sales excellence is about balancing the customer’s needs with maintaining margin, volume and profit and you’ll develop sales skills to achieve this.

Alongside this, you will learn how provide specification advice and technical support and value engineers existing designs.

You will learn how the importance of early design input, specification advice and technical support and will work with main contractors and developer’s design teams to develop design details. Through developing specialist knowledge you will ensure all products within the masonry wall are correctly specified and where possible look for cost effective viable alternative solutions.

Building relationships will be key to success in your role so you will liaise with manufacturers and customers to ensure a smooth design and approval process and build strong working relationships with key suppliers.

You will also learn to look for new suppliers/product development opportunities.

In accordance with our ‘Zero Harm’ culture, you will be fully trained on health and safety and environmentally responsible behaviour, and you will be expected to lead by example, proactively promoting and instilling a culture where the health and safety of every team member is the number one priority
- The ability to build and maintain strong relationships
- A desire to deliver good quality customer service
- Good attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- IT literacy

**In return we offer**:

- A very competitive salary of £10.58 per hour, plus a quarterly bonus
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays plus the option to ‘buy back’ up to 5 additional days
- Employee Assist portal with physical and mental health support and a team of Mental Health First Aiders
- Financial advice and support
- Sports and Social Club with monthly prize draw
- A full customisable benefits package with options that include a pension, life insurance, cycle to work scheme, share incentive, dental plans, private medical insurance and a share incentive scheme
- A discount portal for retail discounts and points
- Long service recognition - which starts at just 5 years’ service

SIG Plc. is a large employer and leading supplier of specialist building materials to trade customers across Europe. We have strong positions in our core markets as a specialist distributor of insulation and interiors products and as a merchant of roofing and exteriors products.

Born ‘green’, sustainability is at the heart of what we do. The people as SIG regularly describe us as a ‘family’ and our colleagues often stay many years. You will be joining a company that cares about our people, our business and the environment.

**SIG is committed to creating a fair and inclusive environment where employees feel safe, proud and valued. We encourage ways of working that treat everyone fairly and with respect, and we look to create opportunities to improve the diversity of our workforce across all areas of the business.**

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 13 months

**Salary**: £10.58 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Rotherham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 14/07/2023
Reference ID: App14564
Expected start date: 04/09/2023