Overview
Commercial Training at Boston College offers professional development and bespoke training solutions for individuals and businesses across a wide range of sectors. Whether you're looking to upskill, retrain, or ensure your workforce stays compliant with the latest industry standards, our flexible courses are tailored to meet real business needs. Training is delivered by industry-experienced tutors in areas such as health and safety, first aid, electrical, construction, digital technologies, and more. Many courses lead to recognised qualifications and accreditations, helping to boost your CV or support career progression. With options for in-house training, online delivery, or on-campus sessions, we work closely with employers to design training that delivers real results. Boston College’s Commercial Training helps you stay competitive in a fast-changing world.
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Horncastle Campus
Boston College’s Horncastle Campus is based off Mareham Road in Horncastle and comprises of four classrooms and a digital innovation computer-based classroom, creating new learning opportunities in digital skills for individuals aged 19 and over.
Spalding Campus
Boston College’s Spalding Campus is based in the town centre of Spalding, and accommodates top of the range teaching in a relaxed and professional environment.
The campus also offers outstanding conferencing facilities and office spaces in the Red Lion Quarter, and provides real world experiences for the College’s Beauty Therapy and Hairdressing students in the student run salon, Style Academy Spalding.
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£20,916 Entry Level Salary
£30,470 Average Salary
£46,576 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Installs electrical lighting in streets, homes and business/manufacturing settings.
- Tests joints with electronic test equipment or by filling piping with water, smoke or compressed air.
- Joints pipe by sealing with rubber, cement, lead, etc., connects piping to manholes and attaches pipe junctions as required.
- Selects appropriate asbestos, clay, concrete, plastic or metal pipe sections and lowers them into prepared trenches using hoisting equipment.
- Cuts, shapes and fits wood, lays bricks and tiles, cleans exterior surfaces of buildings and resurfaces eroded stone or brickwork, and performs other tasks in the construction, alteration, repair and demolition of buildings.
- Fills machine with insulating mixture, positions hose, drills access hole and fills cavities or coats surfaces to prevent loss or absorption of heat and provide fire protections.
14 Annual Openings
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£24,714 Entry Level Salary
£45,195 Average Salary
£69,083 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Fastens together sections of rail by bolting fishplates to rails.
- Positions lengths of rail, sets of points and crossovers and secures rail with bolts, wooden wedges or clips.
- Spreads ballast and lays sleepers or metal plates at specified intervals.
- Lubricates points, examines fences, drains, culverts and embankments and carries out any necessary maintenance.
- Checks tightness of bolts and wedges, replaces damaged rail chairs and repacks ballast under sleepers if necessary.
- Patrols length of track and visually inspects rails, bolts, fishplates and chairs for distortion or fracture.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£22,230 Entry Level Salary
£38,705 Average Salary
£59,163 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Removes damaged paving slabs and kerb stones, lays bedding of sand, concrete or mortar on prepared foundation, lays new slabs or stones and fills joints with mortar.
- Spreads aggregate over road surfaces using shovel, lays markings on road surface and repairs crash barriers.
- Spreads bitumen, tar or asphalt and compacts surface using roller.
- Heats bitumen in bucket, applies it to newly laid asphalt and beats or draws tamper head on asphalt to close joints.
- Cuts away broken road surface with pick or pneumatic drill.
- Sets up traffic management systems around work site such as cones, lights and barriers.
- Inspects road surfaces for hazards or signs of deterioration, clears mud, weeds and debris from road and spreads grit or salt as required.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£17,604 Entry Level Salary
£42,178 Average Salary
£64,471 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Forms rope slings, ladders, netting and other rigging and measures, cuts and repairs wire or fibre rope.
- Erects jib, derrick and similar hoisting equipment and installs ropes, pulleys and other lifting tackle.
- Lays and secures wooden planking to form working platforms and fixes guard rails, ladders, cradles and awnings as required.
- Examines scaffold tubing and couplings for defects and selects, fits and bolts scaffold tubes until scaffolding reaches required height.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£23,382 Entry Level Salary
£34,453 Average Salary
£52,504 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Reports as required to managerial staff on work-related matters.
- Determines or recommends staffing and other needs to meet productivity requirements.
- Liaises with managers and contractors to resolve operational problems.
- Establishes and monitors work schedules to meet productivity requirements.
- Directly supervises and coordinates the activities of construction and building workers and/or subcontractors.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£23,526 Entry Level Salary
£32,519 Average Salary
£49,558 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Stains, waxes and French polishes wood surfaces by hand.
- Mixes adhesive or removes self-adhesive backing and positions covering material on wall, matching up patterns where appropriate and removing wrinkles and air bubbles by hand or brush.
- Applies primer, undercoat and finishing coat(s) using brush, roller, or spray equipment.
- Prepares surfaces by cleaning, sanding and filling cracks and holes with appropriate filler.
- Erects working platform or scaffolding up to five metres in height.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£17,964 Entry Level Salary
£34,099 Average Salary
£51,965 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Mixes cement screed or other adhesive, cuts and positions floor and wall tiles and checks alignment of tiling with spirit level.
- Finishes covering by rolling, smoothing, grouting or polishing.
- Examines premises to plan suitable layout and cuts, lays and secures underlay, carpet and linoleum.
- Cleans floor surface, fixes wooden laying guides and mixes, pours and levels granite and terrazzo mixtures, bitumen, synthetic resin or other composition mixtures to form flooring.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£22,590 Entry Level Salary
£33,856 Average Salary
£51,594 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks surface level using line, spirit level and straight edge.
- Covers and seals joints between boards and finishes surface.
- Measures, cuts, installs and secures plaster board and/or ornamental plasterwork to walls and ceilings.
- Pours liquid plaster into mould to cast ornamental plaster work.
- Applies and smooths one or more coats of plaster and produces a finished surface, using hand tools or mechanical spray.
- Mixes, or directs the mixing of, plaster to desired consistency.
- Selects appropriate plasterboard or dry lining panels, cuts them to required size and fixes them to ceilings and walls.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£22,536 Entry Level Salary
£37,952 Average Salary
£57,203 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks and puts on diving suit and equipment and descends underwater to carry out construction, maintenance and repair tasks on sites such as oil rigs, harbours, bridges etc.
- Erects and repairs fencing.
- Maintains and repairs steeples, industrial chimneys and other high structures, and installs and replaces lightning conductors.
- Installs plumbing fixtures, woodwork structures and fittings, and sets glass in frames.
- Pours and levels concrete, prepares surfaces for painting and plastering, and mixes and applies plaster and paint.
- Lays bricks, tiles and building blocks to construct, repair and decorate buildings.
- Selects, measures and cuts steel bars, rods and wire to required lengths, positions and fixes reinforcements into position and tensions as required using hydraulic jacks.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£21,528 Entry Level Salary
£28,899 Average Salary
£43,558 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Sets up and operates machinery to manufacture windows and window frames.
- Fixes mirror panels to interior and exterior walls and repairs and replaces broken glass.
- Applies mastic, putty or adhesive between glass and frame and trims off excess with knife.
- Smooths edges of glass and positions and secures in frame or grooved lead strips.
- Scores plain, coloured, safety and ornamental glass with hand cutter and breaks off glass by hand or with pliers.
- Examines drawings or specifications to determine job requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£21,330 Entry Level Salary
£34,949 Average Salary
£52,678 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Maintains and repairs woodwork and fittings.
- Checks accuracy of work with square, rule and spirit level.
- Aligns and fixes prepared wood pieces by screwing, nailing, gluing and dowelling to form frames, shop fronts, counter units, decking, theatrical sets, furniture, small wooden craft, scale models and wooden templates.
- Selects and measures appropriate wood and cuts, shapes and drills to specification using saws, planes, chisels and other power or hand tools.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£21,096 Entry Level Salary
£34,567 Average Salary
£53,293 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Repairs burst pipes and mechanical and combustion faults and replaces faulty taps, washers, valves, etc.
- Attaches fittings and joins piping by welding, soldering, cementing, fusing, screwing or other methods.
- Tests completed installation for leaks and makes any necessary adjustments.
- Installs fittings such as storage tanks, cookers, baths, toilets, taps and valves, refrigerators, boilers, heat pumps, radiators and fires.
- Measures and cuts required lengths of copper, lead, steel, iron, aluminium or plastic using hand or machine tools.
- Examines drawings and specifications to determine layout of system.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£19,188 Entry Level Salary
£32,998 Average Salary
£49,736 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Seals edges of roof with mortar and ensures that joints are watertight.
- Lays, aligns and secures successive overlapping layers of roofing material.
- Lays and secures underfelt and covers with hot bitumen or other adhesive compound.
- Cuts wooden battens, felt and underfelt to required size.
- Measures roof or exterior wall and calculates required amounts of underfelt, tiles, slates or thatching material.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£19,314 Entry Level Salary
£32,793 Average Salary
£49,427 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Uses hand and power tools to shape and trim bricks.
- Places, levels and aligns bricks in mortar bed and walls.
- Mixes and spreads mortar on foundations and bricks.
- Measures construction site and lays out the first lines of bricks to mark position of walls.
- Examines drawings, photographs and specifications to determine job requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£23,328 Entry Level Salary
£34,265 Average Salary
£51,646 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Levels, aligns and embeds stone in mortar, concrete or steel frame with stone to make and repair structures.
- Uses hand and power tools to shape, trim, carve, cut letters in and polish stone.
- Marks and cuts stone using hammers, mallet and hand or pneumatic chisels.
- Examines drawings, photographs and specifications to determine job requirements.
Available Courses
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£20,898 Entry Level Salary
£35,117 Average Salary
£52,931 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Checks alignment of metal parts using spirit level and plumb-rule.
- Arranges for or undertakes bolting and welding of metal parts.
- Directs hoisting and positioning of girders and other metal parts and checks alignment.
- Erects ladders, scaffolding or working cage.
- Examines drawings and specifications to assess job requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£21,492 Entry Level Salary
£39,398 Average Salary
£52,896 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Examines electrical plant or machinery, domestic appliances and other electrical assembly for faults using test equipment and replaces worn parts and faulty wiring.
- Installs electrical plant, machinery and other electrical fixtures and appliances such as fuse boxes, generators, light sockets etc..
- Assembles parts and sub-assemblies using hand tools and by brazing, riveting or welding.
- Cuts, bends and installs electrical conduit.
- Selects, cuts and lays wires and connects to sockets, plugs or terminals by crimping, soldering, brazing or bolting.
- Examines drawings, specifications and wiring diagrams to determine the method and sequence of operations.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£22,842 Entry Level Salary
£34,414 Average Salary
£49,310 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
- Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
- Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
- Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
- Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
- Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
- Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
- Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£21,456 Entry Level Salary
£31,108 Average Salary
£63,986 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Prepares reports and recommendations on all inspections made and recommends legal action where necessary.
- Undertakes other inspections including chemicals, drugs, flight operations, etc..
- Visits premises where animals are kept, advises on animal care and investigates complaints.
- Checks fishing licences and prevents illegal fishing.
- Samples and tests river water, checks and advises on premises discharging effluent to prevent pollution.
- Verifies the weight of commercial vehicles, checks driver’s licence and hours worked.
- Investigates industrial accidents or any complaints made by the public.
- Draws attention to any irregularities or infringements of regulations and advises on ways of rectifying them.
- Visits sites during construction and inspects completed installations of electricity, gas or water supply.
- Inspects factories and other work sites to ensure adequate cleanliness, temperature, lighting and ventilation, checks for fire hazards and inspects storage and handling arrangements of dangerous materials.
- Inspects measuring and similar equipment in factories and visits street traders, shops, garages and other premises to check scales, weights and measuring equipment.
- Inspects building structures, facilities and sites to determine suitability for habitation, compliance with regulations and for insurance purposes.
- Examines building plans to ensure compliance with local, statutory and other requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£19,512 Entry Level Salary
£33,407 Average Salary
£55,674 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Estimates timescales for project delivery.
- Estimates project costs.
- Creates and designs plans (using computer aided software).
- Inspects construction materials and supervises work of contractors to ensure compliance with specifications and arranges remedial work as necessary.
- Sets out construction site, supervises excavations and marks out position of building work to be undertaken.
- Performs calculations and collects, records and interprets data.
- Sets up apparatus and equipment and undertakes field and laboratory tests of soil and work materials.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£20,016 Entry Level Salary
£31,693 Average Salary
£52,817 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Interprets and reviews technical drawings.
- Visits and advises clients on the use and servicing of electrical and electronic systems and equipment.
- Diagnoses and detects faults and implements procedures to maintain efficient operation of systems and equipment.
- Plans installation methods, checks completed installation for safety and controls or undertakes the initial running of the new electrical or electronic equipment or system.
- Sets up equipment, undertakes tests, takes readings, performs calculations and records and interprets data.
- Plans and prepares work and test schedules based on specifications and drawings.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£32,472 Entry Level Salary
£55,195 Average Salary
£91,442 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Writes reports for funding bids and planning authorities and acts as expert witness.
- Examines accident ‘blackspots’ to improve road safety.
- Assesses schemes to manage traffic such as congestion charging and parking controls.
- Forecasts the impact on traffic and transport of new developments (e.g. shopping centre).
- Records, monitors and reports progress.
- Identifies defects in work and proposes corrections.
- Regularly inspects and monitors progress and quality of work, ensures legal requirements are met.
- Hires and may supervise site staff, establishes temporary site offices, takes delivery of materials.
- Plans work schedules for construction projects based on prior discussion with architects, Chartered architectural technologists, surveyors etc..
- Assembles information for invoicing at the end of projects.
- Briefs project team, contractors and suppliers.
- Draws up budgets and timescales for new construction projects based on clients’ requirements.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
£26,892 Entry Level Salary
£57,012 Average Salary
£116,885 Potential Salary
Daily Tasks
- Receives reports upon work in progress to ensure that materials and construction methods meet with specifications and statutory requirements and that there are no deviations from agreed plans.
- Plans, directs and co-ordinates the construction and maintenance of civil and structural engineering works, including demolition, pipelines and pilings.
- Receives invitations to tender, arranges for estimates and liaises with client, architects, Chartered architectual technologists and engineers for the preparation of contracts.
- Liaises with other managers to plan overall production activity and construction activities, sets quality standards and estimates timescales and costs.
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Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.
