Apprentice Joiner

Summary

Here at Great Places Housing Group, we will support you to gain a relevant professional apprenticeship and provide you with lots of additional training and development opportunities and enable you to participate in a range of projects to enhance the skills you develop. We are committed to developing our future talent from early on in your career.

Annual wage

£22,105.20 a year

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Great Places is a fantastic place to work and in order to ensure we attract and retain the best talent around, we offer a wide range of benefits which include generous holiday entitlement, flexible working, health & wellbeing initiatives and more.

Training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)

Hours

Monday- Friday Working between the hours of 8.00am- 6.00pm

39 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 17 February

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

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

We're looking to recruit a new Apprentice Joiner to come and join our Repairs team. Reporting to one of our Property Services Managers, the successful person will contribute to all areas of carpentry and joinery within repairs, maintenance, servicing, and planned works. The apprentice will also complete a range of maintenance activities to a diverse customer base for Great Places Housing Group. Full training will be provided.

What you’ll be doing, with training and supervision of an experienced operative…

Repairing walls, doorframes, skirting boards or plaster damage to internal walls
Preparing of timber moulds for the manufacture of precast products
Measuring out on material from blueprints, drawings, or samples
Working on window and door repairs, kitchens fitting, flooring replacement and general joinery assigned tasks.
Laying out marks
Communicating with various teams across the business
Respecting customer homes, leaving them clean and safe
Treating your customers with respect and empathy
Working 39 hours per week, starting from 8:00am

Where you’ll work

336 Talbot Road

Blackpool

FY1 3QU

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

PRESTON COLLEGE

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
Functional skills in maths and English level 1, if required
Internal and external training opportunities

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade C/4)
Maths (grade C/4)

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
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Non judgemental
Physical fitness

Other requirements

Please note that the position will involve working all over our Lancashire region and heavy lifting will be involved. Equipment and training will be provided.

About this company

Great Places Housing Group is a modern, forward-looking profit-for-purpose organisation. Our vision is to create great homes in great communities, which would not be achievable without the great people in Great Places’ workforce. Whilst social purpose is very much at the core of what we do, we balance this responsibly with a commercial perspective to ensure our vision is sustainable in the longer term.

https://www.greatplaces.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Here at Great Places Housing group, we are passionate to support your career development and will provide the successful individual with a range of skills and experience to develop a strong career within repairs

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Great Places Housing Group

Sam Hadfield

GrowingGreatness@greatplaces.org.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000291953.

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