Carpentry Apprentice

Summary

We Are Ram Construction are recruiting a Carpentry Apprentice. You will be at the workplace four days per week and East Sussex College’s Eastbourne Campus, once a week. You will complete general building focusing on carpentry on site. We cover 30 miles from our office in Polegate and you will be expected to get yourself to site for a 7.30am.

Wage: £15,704 a year
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Training course: Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours: 5 days per week, 7.30am – 4.30pm. One day a week in college
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 28 April
Duration: 2 years
Positions available: 1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

You will learn how to do the following tasks:

Labouring
General building
Carpentry.

Where you’ll work

Ram House
18 Gilda Close
Polegate
BN26 6GB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

EAST SUSSEX COLLEGE GROUP

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

You will complete the Level 2 Site Carpentry Apprenticeship Standard and on completion will receive a certificate at either grade Pass or Distinction.

If you don’t have GCSEs grades C/4 or above or equivalent, you will be required to study Level 1 Functional Skills in maths and English. We will then upskill you to Level 2.

Day release will be from East Sussex College’s Eastbourne Campus, once a week, term time only. In addition to day-release an assessor will visit the workplace every 10-12 weeks.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English & Maths (grade C / 4 or above)

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
Team working
Punctuality
A desire to learn

Other requirements

You will be required to be on site by 7.30am, all our sites are within 30 miles of our Polegate office. You will be required to get yourself there, there isn’t always an easy bus/train route.

About this company

We Are Ram Construction Ltd offer a complete start to finish building service from the initial chat discussing ideas to the last finishing touches to ensure customer satisfaction. Our extensive range of services are available for domestic and residential works as well as commercial. Our company was formed following the merge of BN Construction Ltd and RJ Construction (Sussex) Ltd. Now, our friendly and highly recommended team is growing with new members of staff joining every year. At present, We Are RAM Construction Ltd consist of 16 members of staff with jointly over 70 years of experience in all types of trades. All members of the team are fully qualified and insured, extremely reliable and passionate about what they do. They all have good people skills and give great levels of customer service. We also use qualified, well established and approved sub-contractors to enhance what we can do for our clients.

https://www.weareramconstruction.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There may be a full-time position available after completing the apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

EAST SUSSEX COLLEGE GROUP

Katie Parris

Katie.parris@escg.ac.uk

030 300 39871

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000310185.

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