Carpentry Apprentice

Summary

Attend college and carry out off site assessments for the college assessor. Attend the working site and carry out apprentice carpenter duties.

Annual wage: £18,642 a year
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Training course: Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours: Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 16 December
Duration: 2 years
Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Obtaining carpentry skills by watching and assisting carpenters on site with general carpentry works, such as door install, architraves, skirting, panelling etc
Learning the general procedures of working on a live Tier 1 site whilst in a team, ensuring the principle contractors’ rules and requirements are adhered to, in terms of health and safety, housekeeping, PPE etc

Where you’ll work

Stortford House 231 London Road

Bishop's Stortford

CM23 3LA

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES

Your training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Select, use and store hand tools.
Select, use and store power tools.
Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
Produce jigs.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.
Site carpenter: Apply first fix techniques and practices for: 1. structural carcassing, 2. straight timber or metal partition walls, 3. floor joists 4. floor joist coverings and 5. straight flights of stairs.
Site carpenter: Install structural fixings.
Site carpenter: Size timber from sizing tables.
Site carpenter: Apply site second fix techniques and practices for:1. service encasement, 2. cladding 3. wall and floor units and fitments, 4. handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs, 5. internal and external doors, 6. skirting boards and architrave, 7. window boards.
Site carpenter: Apply site carpenter techniques and practices to construction of rafter roofs, including trussed (prefabricated) and traditional (built on site) including the construction of verge, eaves and fitting loft access.
Site carpenter: Use and store laser levels for example cross line laser.
Site carpenter: Form connections, for example, using joints, nails, screws, bolts and adhesive.
Site carpenter: Apply measuring, marking out, cutting (square and angled), mitring, hinging and recessing techniques.
Site carpenter: Carrying out splicing and scribing techniques.
Architectural joiner: Produce setting out details, including setting rods, and mark out for timber products.
Architectural joiner: Produce basic woodworking joints including dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon and halving.
Architectural joiner: Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples and adhesives.
Architectural joiner: Apply techniques and practices to the manufacture and assembly of a timber window with casement including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for first fix products: 1. straight staircases, 2. door frames and linings.
Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products: 1. timber doors, 2. wall and floor units, 3. timber mouldings, 4. staircase spindles and balustrades.
Architectural joiner: Fit ironmongery including door locks, door handles, door hinges, latches and draw runners.
Architectural joiner: Inspect, prepare and operate fixed machinery.
Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
Identify and use safety control equipment, for example, RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
Comply with industry regulations, standards, and guidance.
Prepare and maintain a safe working area.
Interpret and use information from drawings and specifications.
Estimate required materials and produce a cutting list.
Verbally communicate with others, applying construction terminology.
Select, use and store hand tools.
Select, use and store power tools.
Maintain and sharpen hand tools.
Produce jigs.
Identifies well-being support available to self and others.

Your training plan

Carpentry and Joinery Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard

More training information

College will be 1 day a week, decided by the college at the time of enrolment - the college location to be confirmed at the time of enrolment, based on candidate location
The remainder of the week, the candidate will be site based, initially at Future Greenwhich Campus, 95 Plumstead Road, Polthorne Estate, SE18 7DQ. When this project completes, the candidate will move across to another site that will likely be central London or in the surrounding boroughs

Requirements

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Willingness to learn
Enthusiasm

Other requirements

Essential skills: - CSCS card Desirable skills: - Some knowledge of woodwork or construction

About this company

We are a multi-division company, comprising of 3 business units, such as dry lining, joinery and washrooms. Stortford Interiors is predominantly drywall based and Parkrose is joinery and washrooms. This vacancy is for the joinery division within Parkrose.

http://www.stortford-interiors.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

If successful, the ideal career progression would be to continue as a carpenter gaining experience, moving on to supervisory / management

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