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Ben Tibbetts Building & Joinery Ltd
Ben Tibbetts Building & Joinery Ltd is looking for a hardworking, reliable, and passionate Carpentry & Joinery Apprentice to join their experienced team in and around Kendal and South Lakes.
About the Role
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
This will be a varied apprenticeship where you will be working on home extensions, renovations, property restoration, loft and garage conversions, and more.
You will gain hands-on experience working on a wide variety of joinery tasks such as installing partitions, doors, window frames, mouldings, staircases, floor joists, and roofs.
You will learn from experienced joiners while working towards a recognised qualification. You will spend four days on site and one day in college.
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
- 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.
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Architectural Joiner
- 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.
Level 2 Carpentry & Joinery Apprenticeship Programme
Relevant training will be provided through Lancaster and Morecambe College. Functional Skills in maths and English may be required.
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