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GLM Joinery are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Joiner to join their experienced team. This is an excellent opportunity to learn all aspects of joinery while working alongside skilled professionals in a busy workshop environment.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
You will receive full supervision and training throughout your apprenticeship, developing practical skills and industry knowledge across a wide range of bespoke joinery projects. Our work is varied, fast-paced, and often scheduled at short notice, making this an exciting role for someone who enjoys learning and taking on new challenges.
Typical items manufactured in our workshop include:
- Windows and doors
- Garage doors
- Shopfronts
- Bespoke bars and back fittings
- Stained, polished, and painted joinery products
As an Apprentice Joiner, you will assist with:
- Measuring materials and checking their suitability for projects
- Sanding timber and preparing surfaces for finishing
- Cutting wood to specification
- Assembling and joining components together
- Staining, priming, painting, and finishing joinery products
- Using a range of hand and power tools safely under supervision
- Maintaining a clean, safe, and organised working environment
- Supporting the team in completing projects to agreed deadlines
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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
- Apply first fix techniques and practices for:
- structural carcassing (load bearing studwork)
- straight timber or metal partition walls
- floor joists
- floor joist coverings and
- 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.
- Carrying out splicing and scribing techniques.
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- 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 techniques and practices to the manufacture and assembly of a timber window with casement including glazing rebates and associated ironmongery.
- 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.
GLM Joinery Ltd is a well-established family-run business based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The company was originally formed in 1987, and is founded on many years of experience in supplying quality joinery products. We have experience in providing joinery of the highest quality to: construction and leisure industries; private/limited companies and domestic customers.
With our fully fitted workshop and highly skilled staff, we take great pride in our work from full refurbishments to providing items for ongoing maintenance/repair works.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
On successful completion of the apprenticeship, you could progress from being a Trainee Joiner to a Full Bench Joiner. There is also the possibility to progress to a Level 3 Craft Joinery Apprenticeship.
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