Site Carpentry Apprentice

G K PAGET LTD

BEAMINSTER, DT8 3LP

Closes in 11 days (Friday 27 September)

Posted on 30 August 2024

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Summary

The successful candidate will be working with city and guilds qualified carpenters with 30 plus year’s experience. We carry out all types of building work from new builds, extensions, conversions, and maintenance.

Annual wage
£9,984 a year

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Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
On site working hours are Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm subject to college days. Apprentices are expected to be at work if they have no college.

30 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 14 October

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

  • The successful candidate will be working with a carpenter carrying out tasks as you begin to gain knowledge and experience
  • You will be expected to help keep the site safe and tidy, load and unload materials, assist where required and watch and learn
  • As you become more experienced you will be given carpentry tasks of your own. Either helping or carrying out tasks on your own but under the supervision of your work colleagues
  • These tasks will include 1st and 2nd fix carpentry, building timber roofs, roofing, plasterboarding and sometimes helping other trades

Where you’ll work

28 MEADOWSIDE

MOSTERTON

BEAMINSTER

DT8 3LP

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

WEYMOUTH 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

    • The apprentice will work towards attaining the Level 2 Carpentry & Joinery (Site) Apprenticeship with training delivered two days a week at Weymouth College (term-time only)

    Requirements

    Desirable qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English (grade 4)
    • Maths (grade 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
    • Problem solving skills
    • Presentation skills
    • Analytical skills
    • Team working
    • Creative
    • Physical fitness

    Other requirements

    You MUST be prepared to commit to your work and training for the duration of the apprenticeship. You will be required to attend an interview and assessment at Weymouth College prior to your application being passed on. If a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date, it may close earlier so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

    About this company

    G K Paget Ltd has been running as a limited company for the past 12 years. Before that it was run as a soul trader. We have a very good customer pool going back over 25 years. We focus on doing the best job possible with customer satisfaction. We work for private customers and commercial carrying out the following building work: kitchen fitting, house building, extensions, alterations, conversions, landscaping & groundwork’s.

    After this apprenticeship

    • Following completion of the apprenticeship the right candidate may be offered a position as a permanent member of staff

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    WEYMOUTH COLLEGE

    Laura Cowburn

    laura_cowburn@weymouth.ac.uk

    01305208709

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000274104.

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    Closes in 11 days (Friday 27 September)

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