Apprentice Joiner

Summary

As an apprentice at Laverack Joinery, you will work in our factory helping to make joinery components such as windows, stairs and doors and will learn all the necessary skills from our experienced and supportive team.

Wage: £15,704 a year
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Training course: Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours: Monday to Friday between 7.45am to 4.15pm.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Tuesday 1 July
Duration: 2 years 3 months
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

Prepare and maintain a safe working environment.
Comply with health and safety regulations, standards and guidance.
Learn about different types of timber and storage procedures.
Follow plans to prepare the timber for manufacture of doors, windows and staircases.
Assist the joiners in assembly of frames.
Sanding and preparation before spraying.
Finishing and completion of frames after spraying including glazing.
Use, maintain and store specific joinery tools and equipment.
Ensure the factory is clean and tidy and clearing the outside areas.
Follow and understand verbal and written instructions.

Where you’ll work

BIRCH PARK

HUNTINGTON ROAD

YORK

YO31 9BL

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

YORK 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

This apprenticeship will give you the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to work as an Architectural Joiner and will include the following:

Health and safety to include Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, Manual Handling and Working at Height Regulations, use of PPE etc.
Principles of building construction terminology and components, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and environmental and sustainability considerations.
Interpreting and producing relevant information from drawings, specifications and work instructions including the basic principles of Computer-Aided Design (CAD).
Understand the characteristics, quality, uses, sustainability, limitations and defects associated with timber and timber-based products and components.
How to use hand and power tools including narrow bandsaws, crosscut saws, re-saws, panel saws, surface planers, thicknessers and mortices.
How to manufacture routine architectural joinery products such as door, window, straight stairs and fitting parts, how to produce door, window and fitting parts, and how to finish products to the specified standard for the parts to accept a range of finishes.
How to install a range of common ironmongery components for doors, windows and units using a range of hand and power tools.

You will also produce a portfolio of evidence demonstrating examples of your work produced through the apprenticeship.

You will attend York College on a day release basis and the qualification achieved will be Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship level 2.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

any other subject (grade 3/D)
English (grade 3/D)
maths (grade 3/D)

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
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Physical fitness
Reliable
Motivated
Willing to work hard

Other requirements

After you submit your application, York College will send a screening email from apprenticeships@yorkcollege.ac.uk. Check your spam folder, too. You must reply, otherwise your application will be rejected.

About this company

Laverack Joinery makes windows, stairs and doors and anything made from timber. Laverack Joinery was established in July 1984 by Robert Laverack. Robert is from a large family within the construction industry, he was trained as a bench hand joiner and saw the need to establish a joinery manufacturing business supplying purpose-made joinery items for the local trade. The company now supplies products to the trade nationwide. After a period of growth and expansion, the company relocated to larger freehold premises in Birch Park Industrial Estate, Huntington Road, York in 1990. The premises are equipped with a substantial amount of modern machinery, complete with a dust extraction system that provides the heating for the premises. Laverack Joinery is a family run business with the next generation of the family already employed within the business.

http://LaverackJoinery.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

On completion of the apprenticeship, you will be a fully qualified bench joiner able to work for us on an ongoing basis, without supervision and in charge of your own jobs.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

YORK COLLEGE

sales@laverackjoinery.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000298031.

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Closes on Sunday 16 March 2025

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