Site Carpentry Apprentice
LEVEL BUILDERS LTD
Derby, Derbyshire
Closes in 25 days (Sunday 18 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 22 April 2025
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Summary
Offering to work on small to large projects for clients and Level Builders' own developments. You will get to work with a great team working on new builds, extensions, and renovations. Works across Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire, so you must have access to your own vehicle to travel to work sites.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 7:30am - 3:30pm (subject to change).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
The role will include but is not limited to first fix carpentry including:
- Installing joists
- Stud walls
- Roofs
Second fix carpentry including:
- Fitting doors
- Architrave
- Skirting
- Kitchen fitting and more
Where you’ll work
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- 66 Balmoral Road, Borrowash, Derby, DE72 3FZ
- Leicestershire, Notthinghamshire and, Derbyshire, DE72 3FZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LEICESTER 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
Level 2 Site Carpentry apprenticeship standard delivered by 3 day fortnightly block release at Leicester College Freemen's Park Campus.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 2/D)
- Maths (grade 2/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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Time management skills
- Positive attitude
Other requirements
Role requires a lot of lifting, standing all day, working outside in all weathers. Must have driving licence and own transport to travel between work sites
About this company
Level Builders is a construction company based in Leicestershire, offering services to clients in the surrounding areas including Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Primarily specialising in extensions, but also able to offer services such as loft & garage conversions, garden landscaping, paving & porches, Level Builders raises the level with their outstanding standard of work.
After this apprenticeship
- Site Carpenter
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEVEL BUILDERS LTD
Katoie
katie@levelbuilders.co.uk
07795331688
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316198.
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Closes in 25 days (Sunday 18 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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