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As a Carpenter Apprentice
You will support our experienced tradespeople on the University of Southampton contract, assisting with a wide range of repair, maintenance, and installation works across the university's residential halls and estate buildings.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Accountable for the safety of yourself and those around you whilst in the workplace, ensuring you are also environmentally conscious.
- Purchase tools throughout your apprenticeship to enable you to perform your role on completion of your apprenticeship.
- Always remain polite & professional.
- To live the Mountjoy ethos and values always with whoever you deal or engage with.
- Punctual in both work and college settings, this includes ensuring all coursework is completed on time
- Have a real interest in carpentry type work
Where you'll work
Mountjoy Ltd
47 51 Kingston Crescent
Portsmouth
PO2 8AA
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE GROUP
Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
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What you'll learn
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
- 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.
- 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.
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You will work alongside your mentor for four days per week and attend South Hampshire College Group at the Eastleigh site for one day a week, to study and pass a Level 2 Site Carpentry Apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship will be a 2-year programme made up of 80% work-based learning. Off-the-job training will follow the time allocations outlined in the Occupational Standard.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
- Pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Hold a full UK Drivers Licence by the end of your apprenticeship
Mountjoy is a leading provider of building maintenance, facilities management, refurbishment, and construction services across the South of England. We employ over 350 skilled professionals dedicated to delivering high-quality services to our clients.
https://www.mountjoy.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- 34 days annual leave rising to 36 days with length of service
- Life Assurance
- Length of service rewards
- Buy & Sell up to 5 days per year
- Company sick pay
- 10% discount card for B&Q
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric Care scheme
- Tool loans
- Employee recognition scheme
- Access to our free Health & wellbeing platform
- Pension scheme
- Uniform provided
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
After completing a Site Carpentry Level 2 Apprenticeship, you will become a qualified Carpenter, working independently or as part of the carpentry team.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MOUNTJOY LTD
Charlotte Seymour
charlotte.seymour@mountjoy.co.uk
07510927563
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000047114.
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