Site Carpentry Apprenticeship

LJ CONSTRUCTION CARPENTRY CONTRACTORS LTD

Brackley (NN13 6PP)

Closes in 29 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 21 March 2025


Summary

A site carpentry apprenticeship with training taking place on a site close to your home! This includes a 4 week 'Site Ready' course before you enter the construction world! Last year we got over 550 apprenticeship applications. With so many, we can't reply to everyone. Please don’t chase us for updates—we’ll reach out if you're through to stage 2.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
• Monday to Friday • 7:30am-4pm

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 6 October 2025

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

  • Main Roof
  • Joists
  • First Fix
  • Second Fix
  • External Door
  • Cladding

Where you’ll work

Construction Site
Brackley
NN13 6PP

Training

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

College or training organisation

MULTI TRADES TRAINING LTD

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

  • Diploma Level 2 In Site Carpentry
    Initial 4-week training at LJ Construction Academy in Banbury
    After that FULLY site based and no college attendance
  • Functional Skills in English and maths if required

 

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • 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

  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Physical fitness

About this company

LJ Construction delivers best-in-class Carpentry Contracting services to the nation's largest house builders

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

After this apprenticeship

Site Carpenter

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MULTI TRADES TRAINING LTD

academy@ljconstruction.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000311189.

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Closes in 29 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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