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Join Our Team as an Apprentice Bench Joiner
Come and join a team which already invests heavily in apprentices where you will be based in our workshop and learn alongside senior joiners to manufacture shop fitting items from hardwood, softwood, laminate and MDF.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The Apprentice Bench Joiner will be based in our workshop in Mansfield and the successful candidate's main duties will include:
- Working alongside senior Joiners to develop joinery skills including the use of hand and power tools
- Manufacturing shop fitting items such as doors, door frames & architraves, carcass units, trash bins, toilet ducts & panels shelving and shop counters
- Working with various hardwoods & softwoods, MDF, laminates and solid surfaces
- General workshop and yard housekeeping including emptying dust extractor
Where you'll work
MAUN HOUSE
MAUN WAY
HERMITAGE LANE
MANSFIELD
NOTTS
NG18 5GX
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Training course
Wood product manufacturing operative (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health, safety and environmental requirements, for example safe use of personal and respiratory protective equipment, local exhaust ventilation, statutory regulations and industry standards/codes of practice.
- Identify risks and hazards in the workplace and apply appropriate control measures.
- Comply with organisational and statutory environmental and sustainability considerations, for example disposal of waste, recycling of materials and efficient use of resources.
- Communicate - verbal and/or written, for example with colleagues and/or customers.
- Plan work to undertake wood product manufacturing operations.
- Read and interpret specifications, diagrams and work instructions, and following these instructions.
- Select the correct type and quantity of components and materials.
- Prepare the work area before undertaking the work.
- Identify faults and issues, for example incorrect or defective wood, defective machinery; and applying solutions.
- Pack and store products and components.
- Select, set up and operate machinery, tools and equipment used to produce wood components.
- Prepare and operate Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) equipment.
- Use and maintain jigs and templates for wood product manufacturing operations.
- Position wood components and apply manual and mechanical cramps to ensure products are secured and in accordance with the work specification.
- Assemble wood components to the work specification and given tolerances.
- Sand materials and de-nib.
- Apply adhesives to wood components.
- Apply finishes to wood products, for example stains, sealers, basecoats and paint finishes.
- Instal fixtures and fittings to wood products, for example ironmongery, seals, ancillary metal work and fixings, nail plates and staples.
- Carry out glazing operations, for example install glass to window or door.
- Check and and inspect work to ensure it meets the work specification; undertake rectification or rework where necessary
- Report work outcomes and/or problems.
- Complete the handover process to other manufacturing process functions/teams.
- Complete work documentation, for example job sheets, time cards.
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Training schedule
Wood Product Manufacturing Operative Level 2.
This programme is delivered via a day release delivery model which means that one day per week, your attendance is required at our Construction Campus. This attendance is required during term time only.
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Please note: This is an apprenticeship vacancy, and the advertised closing date is provided as a guide only. The employer wishes to review applications and interview suitable candidates as they are received. As a result, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is identified or if a high volume of applications is received. We therefore encourage interested applicants to apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 2)
- Maths (grade 2)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Jephsons is an award-winning interior fit-out specialist providing first-class services to the food retail, hospitality and catering industries. Come to us and get over 40 years' manufacturing and fit-out experience with a reputation for attention to detail, high quality and a commitment to on-time, to budget project management.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
This company are committed to continuous personal development and to maintaining your skills. They will do this using a variety of training methods which may include apprenticeships at higher levels.
Contact for this apprenticeship
WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE
Violet
apprenticeships@wnc.ac.uk
01623 900798
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045927.
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