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Trainee Bench Joiner Apprenticeship
We are looking to appoint one trainee to join our friendly team. The trainee will have completed a level 2 apprenticeship with another employer in bench joinery. Candidates should be enthusiastic and enjoy working as part of a team.
The pay is based on 42.5hrs per week.
What you'll do at work
- Health, safety and welfare in construction and associated industries.
- Knowledge of construction technology.
- Prepare and use carpentry and joinery power tools.
- Understanding of information, quantities and communication with others.
- Draw and set out joinery items (Bench Joinery)
Where you'll work
GREENPARK BUSINESS CENTRE
GOOSE LANE
SUTTON ON THE FOREST
YORK
YO61 1ET
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LEEDS COLLEGE OF BUILDING
Training course
Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work and control measures.
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications and provide work instructions.
- Calculate resource and cost quantities from site measurements.
- Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems for example segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply planning, work scheduling and time management techniques to identify and agree production plan targets.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Select, check and use hand and power tools.
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital. For example, job sheets, time sheets, risk assessments, method statements, equipment service records, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, incident reports, requisition sheets, quality records.
- Communicate and report in written form any issues against the production plan and contribute to the solutions.
- Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
- CSC:
- Apply craft site first fix carpentry techniques and practices to install timber stud partitions with standard and non-standard (non–90 degree) turns.
- Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to install complex first fix elements: 1. fire door linings, 2. floor coverings with non-standard (non–90 degree) returns and 3. structural partitions.
- Apply craft site second fix carpentry techniques and practices to install double side hung doors with associated ironmongery and lining. Non-standard (non-90 degree) mouldings.
- Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to install complex second fix elements: 1. bespoke wall and floor units (commissioned order with features or like for like replacement), 2. worktops with masons mitre, 3. cornices and fitments, 4. spindles and handrails to stairs with turns, 5. fire doors. 6. service encasements with access panels, 7. non-standard (non-90 degree) door linings.
- Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to erect trussed or traditional roofs rafter roofs with hips, valleys and dormers.
- Form non-standard (non–90 degree) joints.
- Replace or repair carpentry work, for example, structural timbers doors, glazing, window frames and sills, mouldings, timber guttering and fixings or sash window cords.
- CAJ:
- Set out, mark out and form curved joinery products.
- Form shaped wood working joints.
- Set up and use CNC machinery to produce joinery products.
- Apply craft architectural joinery techniques to manufacture and assemble a window frame with, curved head and non-standard (non–90 degree) window bars.
- Apply craft architectural joinery techniques and practices to manufacture and assemble complex timber second fix products: 1. fire doors 2. shaped, non-standard doors 3. bespoke wall and floor units (commissioned order with features or like for like replacement).
- Apply craft architectural joinery techniques and practices to manufacture and assemble complex timber first fix products: 1. staircases with turns 2. fire door linings, 3. bespoke windows with non-standard (non–90 degree) angles, 4. shaped, non-standard door linings.
- Apply craft architectural techniques to create shaped work using specialist jigs and fixed machinery.
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Training will be undertaken internally and on day/week release at Leeds Building College.
Level 2 Bench Joinery (Apprentice) in:
Joinery (grade Passed)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
We are a family run business. We have approx. 40 staff spread over two companies which include our sister company 'Peter Thompson of York'. We are well known in Yorkshire for producing some of the country’s finest interiors.
http://peterthompsonofyork.co.uk (opens in new tab)
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Qualified joiner Level 3.
Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PETER THOMPSON JOINERY LTD
Helen Thompson
helen@ptoy.co.uk
01347 812027
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000044856.
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