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About the Role
This apprenticeship offers the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to become a qualified Carpenter, working across a wide range of occupied and unoccupied properties.
What You'll Do at Work
- Follow agreed targets and objectives with regards to the role
- Follow work instructions efficiently
- Carry out repairs, maintenance, and installation work across our homes
- Gain hands-on experience, develop practical carpentry skills
Where You'll Work
- Avro Way
- Melksham
- SN12 6TP
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
- WILTSHIRE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
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.
- Identify well-being support available to self and others.
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Site Carpenter Skills
- 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
- Install structural fixings.
- Size timber from sizing tables.
- 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
- 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.
- Use and store laser levels, for example, cross-line laser.
- Form connections, for example, using joints, nails, screws, bolts, and adhesive.
- Apply measuring, marking out, cutting (square and angled), mitring, hinging, and recessing techniques.
- Carry out splicing and scribing techniques.
Architectural Joiner Skills
- Produce setting out details, including setting rods, and mark out for timber products.
- Produce basic woodworking joints including dovetail, bridal, mortise and tenon, and halving.
- Form connections using dowels, biscuit, staples, and adhesives.
- Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for first fix products:
- Straight staircases
- Door frames and linings
- Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products:
- Timber doors
- Wall and floor units
- Timber mouldings
- Staircase spindles and balustrades
- Fit ironmongery including door locks, door handles, door hinges, latches, and draw runners.
- Inspect, prepare, and operate fixed machinery.
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Training Schedule
- Carpentry and Joinery Level 2
- You will develop skills via on-the-job training and learning alongside skilled tradespeople, and will attend College one day per week for theory and practical work.
Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 1-9)
- Maths (grade 1-9)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Company Benefits
- Competitive salary and pension
- Flexible working
- Supportive team
- Generous holiday
- Ongoing training and development
- Life assurance
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
Full-time position upon completion of the apprenticeship is unfortunately not guaranteed.
Contact Information
- The contact for this apprenticeship is:
- WILTSHIRE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CENTRE
- Wiltshire College and University Centre Apprenticeship Team
- apprenticeships@wiltshire.ac.uk
- 01249465282
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041754.
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