Location: Blyth, Northumberland
Pay Rate: £25.00 per hour (CIS)
Hours: 50 Hours per week (10-Hour Shifts, Monday - Friday)
Duration: Ongoing, multi-phase project
The Opportunity
Are you a time-served Formwork Specialist looking to maximise your weekly hours on a high-value, fast-paced project?
Search Consultancy has been appointed to secure an experienced Shuttering Joiner for a major civil engineering and reinforced concrete (RC) development in Blyth. This site is operating on fixed 10-hour daily shifts (50 hours per week), making it a premium placement for tradespeople who want consistent, high-volume hours without weekend working.
If you hold a Blue or Gold CSCS card, take pride in clean formwork, and want long-term work with an industry-leading contractor, this is an outstanding local opportunity.
Your Role & Responsibilities
Working directly alongside site engineers, steel fixers, and concrete gangs, you will play a key role in delivering heavy structural concrete elements:
System & Modular Formwork: Assembling, erecting, and securing proprietary shuttering systems (e.g., Peri, Doka, MEVA) as well as traditional timber shuttering for retaining walls, ground beams, columns, suspended slabs, and heavy foundations.
Precision Layout & Alignment: Setting up panels strictly to line, level, and structural drawings, ensuring all formwork is fully braced, propped, and sealed to withstand high-pressure concrete pours.
Custom Timber Fabrication: Accurately measuring and constructing bespoke timber box-outs, void formers, stop-ends, and holding-down bolt templates ahead of pour deadlines.
Striking & Material Care: Safely striking, cleaning, repairing, and re-oiling shuttering panels post-cure to maximize material efficiency and maintain rapid site rotation.
Site Safety at Height & In Excavations: Maintaining flawless safety protocols across extended 10-hour shifts, including working near open excavations, crane lifts, and high-level working platforms.
What We're Looking For
To meet the site's strict civil engineering and health and safety compliance rules, applicants must possess:
CSCS Card: A valid Blue (Skilled Worker) or Gold (Advanced Craft / NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Formwork) CSCS card is strictly mandatory. (Green cards cannot be accepted).
Formwork Background: Demonstrable, hands-on experience in shuttering joinery across heavy civils, commercial RC frames, or infrastructure works.
Tools & Equipment: Your own complete kit of professional formwork hand tools, 110V/cordless power tools (saws, impact drivers, spirit levels, lasers), and standard 5-point PPE.
Commitment to Hours: The stamina and reliability to maintain high-quality workmanship across full 10-hour daily schedules.
Right to Work: Valid proof of right to work in the UK.
Why Work With Search?
At Search Consultancy, we prioritize keeping top-tier tradespeople in continuous, high-paying work. By joining this project in Blyth, you benefit from:
High Earning Potential: A top-tier market rate of £25.00 per hour paid under CIS.
Guaranteed Big Hours: Full 10-hour shifts running Monday through Friday-get your full 50 hours in during the week and keep your weekends free.
Convenient Northumberland Location: Easy site access from across Blyth, Ashington, Cramlington, and the wider Tyneside region.
Reliable Weekly Payroll: Dependable, transparent CIS payments hitting your bank account every single Friday.
Ongoing Continuity: Direct access to our North East civil and construction desk, putting you first in line for future long-term projects across the region.
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age
Salary description
£25.00 - £25.00 per hour