About the Role

Learning the use of tools and joinery techniques. Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

• Ensuring the tidiness of the workshop
• Following all health and safety guidelines
• Assisting with the manufacture of windows, doors, staircases, and oak frames
• Fitting ironmongery
• Simple finishing of joinery

Where you'll work

CHIPNALL SAWMILL
CHESWARDINE
MARKET DRAYTON
SHROPSHIRE
TF9 2RQ

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

REASEHEATH COLLEGE

Training course

Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

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:
  1. structural carcassing (load bearing studwork),
  2. straight timber or metal partition walls,
  3. floor joists,
  4. floor joist coverings, and
  5. 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:
  1. service encasement,
  2. cladding,
  3. wall and floor units and fitments,
  4. handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs,
  5. internal and external doors,
  6. skirting boards and architrave, and
  7. 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:
  1. straight staircases,
  2. door frames and linings.
• Architectural joiner: Apply manufacture and assembly techniques for second fix products:
  1. timber doors,
  2. wall and floor units,
  3. timber mouldings,
  4. 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.