Trades and Labour
At Skillsform, we have a thorough understanding of the sectors we supply labour & trades to:
– Demolition
– Basement construction
– Piling/Groundworks
– RC Frame
We’re not interested in being the biggest labour agency, but we do want to be the best & most relevant.
What kind of support?
Most projects, at some stage, will need to hire in temp labour to supplement existing teams or reach a deadline/milestone.
When this happens, you need operatives to be as good as what you’ve got and pick up the pace of the scheme quickly.
Or you might only carry a small core labour force to keep your costs down, at which point you need to bring in significant numbers.
Either way, we can normally put the right team together, with a supervisor if needed, within a matter of days.
Cost vs Quality??
I dare say you can get labour on the cheap, certainly cheaper than our day rates, but this usually ends up being counter-productive.
We won’t reduce our rates to win business. We believe paying operatives an appropriate day rate is the right way to go.
What can we supply?
| Management & Engineering | Project Manager |
| Construction Manager | |
| Project Engineer | |
| Site Engineer | |
| Supervision | Shuttering Foreman (m/f) |
| Frame & Erecting Supervisor | |
| Slinger/Signaller Supervisor | |
| Formwork Carpenter | Decking (traditional & lightweight) |
| Walls (one & double sided) & columns | |
| Underpinning | |
| Slipform/Jumpform/Liftshafts | |
| Precast Installation | |
| Formwork Labour | Frame Erecting (titan/meva/peri) |
| Striking & Erecting | |
| General Labour/CITB | General Labourer |
| Making good concrete Labourer | |
| Slinger/Signaller | |
| Traffic Marshall |
We take care of compliance (right to work checks) and hold copies of relevant certs, tickets & licences.
We pay the operatives weekly and invoice you monthly.
So, If you’re a bit nonplussed at the quality of labour you get from your current agency, drop me a line and we can send you some rates.
If the rates work, let us supply you with a couple of operatives to compare.