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Site Carpenter Apprentice
Build By Sets are looking for a Site Carpenter Apprentice to work with our team on various sites in Somerset. The apprentice will prepare and install basic building components e.g. doors, straight staircases, wall and floor units and erecting structural carpentry and roof structures on a building site or in domestic and commercial premises.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Assist journeyman carpenters with measuring, cutting, assembling, and installing wood and other building materials.
- Maintain tools, equipment, and work areas in safe and clean condition while learning proper use of hand and power tools.
- Follow safety procedures, job site instructions, and apprenticeship training requirements to develop trade skills and knowledge.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- 26 Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BL
- The Gables, Godminster Lane, Bruton, BA10 0NB
- 16 HIGH STREET, BRUTON, BA10 0AA
- Kings Hayes House, Gold Hill, Batcombe, Shepton Mallet, BA4 6HF
- Manor House, Blackford, Yeovil, BA22 7EE
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
YEOVIL COLLEGE
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.
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The apprenticeship training is delivered through a combination of workplace learning and regular college attendance. This training will teach you the knowledge, skills and behaviours set out in the Carpentry and Joinery Level 2 standard. On completion the apprentice will receive Site Carpentry Level 2 qualification. Functional Skills in maths and English may also be required depending on current level.
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Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade A*-C or 9-4)
- Maths (grade A*-C or 9-4)
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
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- A full driving license and own vehicle is required as the successful apprentices will be required to travel between the following sites:
- Parklands, Trendle Lane, Stoney Stoke BA9 8HZ
- The Gables, Godminster Lane, Bruton BA10 0NB
- 16 High Street, Bruton BA10 0AA
- King Hayes, Gold Hill, Batcombe BA4 6HF
- Manor House, Manor Farm Road, Blackford, Yeovil BA22 7EE
Applicants without a driving license and own vehicle will NOT be considered.
As a service-driven building company, collaborating closely with private clients and architects, we specialise in projects with build budgets up to £2m. Rooted in the heart of ‘The Sets’, we draw our daily inspiration from the architectural splendour and flowing landscapes of Somerset & Dorset. We pour passion, expertise, and unwavering dedication into each and every project. We take sustainability seriously, integrating sustainable practices throughout our projects. https://thesets.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
At the successful completion of the apprenticeship, there will be an opportunity for the right candidate to secure a permanent position within our company.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
YEOVIL COLLEGE
Pippa Rumbles
StudentRecruitment@yeovil.ac.uk
01935 845561
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052352.
Closes in 2 days (Wednesday 16 September 2026 at 11:59pm)
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