Joe Wiseman

29 Clydesdale Street

Hetton le Hole

Tyne & Wear DH5 0DE

0191 5264621Mobile: 07969544807

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PROFILE

I am a multi skilled builder who has had experience of most aspects of building and construction work. I always work to a high standard and adhere to good building regulation standards and practice. I am hard working, loyal and I can work on my own initiative. I enjoy all building work and particularly decorative stone as well as specialist arches etc.

I have good communication skills and work well with both colleagues and clients. My skills are as follows:

  • Multi skilled builder
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  • Stonemason

  • High class brickwork
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  • Drainage, Ground Work

  • Plastering
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  • Roofing Tiling & Truss Work

  • Dry Stone Walling
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  • Self management

  • Decorative arches
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  • Property Maintenance

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CAREER TO DATE:

Nov 06 to Present

I managed my own business involving high quality building projects, using coarse and random stone, axed arches and rough axed arches.

Responsibilities

  • Organising and managing materials. Construction and Project Management of building projects to a high specification.
  • Liaison with and supervising other professionals involved in projects.
  • Ensuring that quality standards are adhered to.
  • Keeping track of progress and ensuring timescales.

Key Achievements

Training to be a Bricklaying Tutor

EastDurhamCollege, Burnhope Way, PeterleeSR8 1NU

Responsibilities:

  • Training towards assessor Working with young school children age 14-16
  • Teaching pupils towards NVQ level 1 and 2

Key Achievements:

  • Ongoing to date

06/05 – 10/05 Support Worker

BIRT (Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust) Hendon Sunderland

Responsibilities

  • Looking after clients with brain injury
  • Keeping extensive records
  • Organizing clients hospital visits and appointments

Key Achievements

  • Maintaining high standard of care for clients
  • Ensuring comfort and safety of clients on a daily basis.
  • Building trust and good relationship with clients and making them feel secure in their environment.

2002 – 2005 Short term contracts: Building Foreman, House Builder, Bricklaying Contractor

Able Construction – Bellway Homes, Newton Moor Construction,

Park Works, Sunderland Road, Gateshead, NE1 –Peel House, Main Street, Ponteland, NE2,

Esh Road, Urshaw Moor, Durham

Responsibilities

  • Groundwork’s up to DPC level, drainage, site security. Ensuring correct records maintained. Liaison on a daily basis with Head Office Management.
  • Ensuring and maintaining safe working practice on site.
  • Roofing, Concreting, setting out site
  • Building homes to a high standard from footings to topping out.
  • Setting out from ground level to finished project.

Key Achievements

  • Able: Satisfactory completion of contract re- extension of St Mary Magdalene’s Roman Catholic School, Seaham, - Youth Centre in Pennywell, Sunderland and small house extensions.
  • Bellway: Completed new build projects at The Orchard site in Birtley. Worked on landscaping walls etc at Throckley Newcastle.
  • Newton Moor. First class high standard brickwork. Project: Newcastle academy.

1999-2002Co-op Development Co-coordinator and Support Worker

CDA (Co-op Development Association) Ushaw Moor Industrial Estate, Durham

Responsibilities

  • Liaison with Social Services and the CDA to develop a wormery in brickwork.
  • Liaison with Management Team to establish a co-op for disadvantaged in the community.

1996 – 1999 Building Contractor, Kendal Cross, Ponteland.

Responsibilities

  • Keeping all brickwork to perfect gauge. Responsible for own setting out, all levels and wall plates to be square and level for truss work.
  • Construction of inspection chambers in waterbond.
  • All aspects of building and blockwork, footings to finished height.

Key Achievements

  • Stone building conversions
  • Building single storey brick and corbel stone dwellings in housing estate in Boldon.
  • School in Redcar. Housing estate in Newcastle, Stone Farm House in Ponteland.

1995 Level 3 City & Guilds in Brickwork Management. Ryope Training Centre, Sunderland.

1990 -1995 Self employed Building Contractor

Key Achievements

  • Decorative Garden Walls in Brick and Stone.
  • Stone and Brick extensions, Porches
  • Patios and Driveways in brickett format.
  • Built from foundations to topping out 4 bedroom single storey farmhouse.
  • All truss work carried out to completion with full tiling.

1970 – 1990 Time served Bricklayer and stonemason

Responsibilities

  • All aspects of building practices and stonemasonry.
  • Plastering, corbel stonework, axed arches, herringbone brickwork etc.
  • Maintaining high standards of excellence at all time.
  • Scaffolding and draining

QUALIFICATIONS and EDUCATION

WearsideCollege 1970 -1973 – ApprenticeBricklayerCity and Guilds Level 1 & 2

Stairway Training, Sunderland 1992 – 1993 Graphics and DesignCity & Guilds Level 2

Ryope Training Centre 1995 City and Guilds Level 3 Brickwork Management

BSL Level 1 2003.

OTHER INTERESTS:

Presently learning Sketchup CAD and Rhino. Keen Artist and like all sports. Like a bottle of brown ale on the weekends.

REFERENCES • Available upon request

Personal Reference. Maureen Dundas-Sleath, MD Locallife,

12 Ullswater Terrace, South Hetton, Durham DH6 2UH

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