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Apprentice Site Carpenter
T HAWKINS BUILDERS LIMITED
Sheffield (S10 3QU)
Closes in 21 days (Friday 6 November 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 15 October 2026
Summary
A multi-skilled builder operating within different client projects and environments requires you to be ambitious to learn and eager to develop into both a skilled site carpenter and the opportunity to develop a wide range of building skills, having an increasing interest in a practical industrial-focused role within a busy and demanding schedule.
Wage £15,600 to £24,784.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
Subject to performance review after probationary period
Training course Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm. 60 mins lunch. Occasional Saturday working. 37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date Monday 9 November 2026
Duration 2 years
Positions available 1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
You will cover a wide range of creative joinery aspects from new kitchens, bathrooms to bedrooms, interiors and extensions
- Carry out a range of job tasks including measuring, marking out, fitting, cutting, splicing, finishing, positioning and securing
- Install door and window frames, door and hatch linings, floor joist coverings, straight partitions and straight staircases
- Install doors, ironmongery, service encasements, wall and floor units and fitments, cladding and staircase components
- Erect inclined roofs with gables, joists, roof coverings and roof components
- Repair or replace frames, mouldings, doors, windows, door and window ironmongery, roofing components, guttering and downpipes and window components
- Use, maintain and store hand tools, power tools and associated equipment
- General Work - learning multiple skills across different disciplines, site housekeeping and maintenance
- Adopt the role of onsite Health & Safety Ambassador
Where you'll work
Stumperlowe View Sheffield S10 3QU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Training course Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Understanding apprenticeship levels
What you'll learn
- 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, 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.
- 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.
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Training schedule Apprentice Standard Carpentry & Joinery Level 2 (Site Pathway)
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Scheduled 2-week block sessions at Sheffield College City Campus throughout the duration Granville Road, Sheffield S2 2RL
Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Candidates will ensure they have sustainable transport to reach our pickup location in the Sheffield post code regions of S10 & S11.
About this employer
Hawkins Builders is a construction company that prides itself in providing excellent service. It was established by Thomas Hawkins, a qualified primary school teacher and DIY enthusiast. Having struggled with unsatisfactory builders when completing work on his own home, he decided to start building his own extensions. He left teaching and pursued a career in building with the aim of providing others with the same level of quality and excellence that he put into his own home.
https://www.hawkins-builders.co.uk/
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay
Sustained employment and further accredited training for the committed and eager to learn candidate with progression to advanced (craft) carpentry apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000058889.
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