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Heritage Joinery seek an enthusiastic Bench Joinery Apprentice/Improver to work in our ever-expanding joiner’s shop.
Some experience working in this sort of environment would be preferred. We make mostly traditional joinery such as windows and doors.
What you'll do at work
- Finishing/sanding joinery
- Cutting/Planing/Moulding timber (subject to training)
- Safe use of tools and machinery
- Assembling items once machined
- Learning to read drawings
- Setting out items prior to production
- Learning to measure accurately
- Keeping the workshop tidy, clean and safe
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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:
- structural carcassing (load bearing studwork),
- straight timber or metal partition walls,
- floor joists
- floor joist coverings and
- 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:
- service encasement,
- cladding
- wall and floor units and fitments,
- handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs,
- internal and external doors,
- skirting boards and architrave,
- 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:
- straight staircases,
- door frames and linings.
- Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products:
- timber doors,
- wall and floor units,
- timber mouldings,
- 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.
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Delivery model:
- Work-based training with your employer
- Day release during term time (approximately 1 day per week for 20 months)
- Campus: Bicester
- Day of the week on campus: Tuesday 09:00-16:00
- Regular meetings with your training coordinator to monitor progress and well-being
- Approximately 5 on-site assessment visits per year
Please apply as soon as possible for this role. Should the right candidate be found prior to the closing date, then the vacancy may be closed early.
Apprenticeship Onboarding Session and Eligibility Checks:
Any new person applying for apprenticeship roles where Abingdon & Witney College deliver the training will be required to complete some eligibility checks. This will consist of a series of initial assessments and an interview with the team. There will be the opportunity to find out more about the apprenticeship process, the training included, and for any questions you might have. You may also be required to attend an Apprenticeship Onboarding Session at Witney, Abingdon or Bicester campus.
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This will consist of a series of initial assessments (required prior to any apprenticeship offer), completion of essential paperwork, the opportunity to find out more about the apprenticeship process, the training included, and a forum for your questions.
As a new Apprenticeship applicant, you will only have to undergo this process once. If you would like to talk to us about the assessments or if you would need any extra support to attend the Apprenticeship Assessment and Information Session, please call us on 01235 216216.
Qualification checks:
By applying for this vacancy, you are giving Abingdon and Witney College permission to undertake a Learner Record Service check on your previous qualifications. We make every effort to ensure that applicants from non-traditional academic backgrounds or those who may not have the formal GCSE entry requirements can access apprenticeships where possible.
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) for Apprentices is £8.00 per hour from April 2026. This applies to 16 - 18 year old apprentices and those aged 19 and over during the first year of their apprenticeship. After this, the National Minimum wage appropriate to their age applies. The Wage for apprentices applies to both time spent on the job plus time spent training.
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Heritage Construction offer the full range of building services. Our expertise includes:
- High end residential new builds, extensions, renovations and conversions.
- Construction services for commercial buildings and bespoke, high end Joinery.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
After successful completion of the apprenticeship, progression opportunities will be evaluated.
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ABINGDON AND WITNEY COLLEGE
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