Joiner and Bench Joiner Apprenticeship
T MANNERS & SONS LIMITED
BISHOP AUCKLAND (DL14 6XW)
Closes in 30 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 April 2025
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Summary
T Manners & Sons Ltd is looking to expand their team by offering apprenticeships in both Joinery and Bench Joinery. As a long standing family run business, T Manners offers a wide variety of construction projects in the North East with our Specialist Joinery division manufacturing and installing products all across the country.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 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 - Thursday, 7.30am - 4.00pm and Friday, 7.30am - 3.00pm. Overtime may be required.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 28 July 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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2
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
- Load and unload materials
- Site based apprentice will work alongside and under the supervision of their Mentor on tasks including: fitting kitchens, worktops and skirting boards
- Workshop based (Bench) apprentice with work alongside and under the supervision of their Mentor manufacturing doors frames, doors, wardrobes, counters, windows and stairs
- Site and Bench apprentices will use a range of hand tools
- Workshop based (Bench) apprentice will also use woodworking machinery
Where you’ll work
PEEL HOUSE
DOVECOT HILL
SOUTH CHURCH ENTERPRISE PARK
BISHOP AUCKLAND
DL14 6XW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BISHOP AUCKLAND 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 Apprenticeship Standard
- One day college attendance per week in term time
More training information
- H&S training
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Pass)
- Maths (grade Pass)
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
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this company
To find out more about apprenticeships and the products and services T Manners & Sons Ltd offer please visit the website www.tmanners.co.uk
After this apprenticeship
- T Manners has employed apprentices from its earliest days, with many of our Senior Managers starting in this role
- As an apprentice, you'll learn from the best in the business, gaining hands-on experience and invaluable skills creating bespoke furniture or constructing stunning architectural pieces
- Once qualified you could progress to NVQ L3 and beyond
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
T MANNERS & SONS LIMITED
Thomas Lowes or Nicola Coulthard
enquiries@tmanners.co.uk
01388 774030
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317504.
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Closes in 30 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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