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Kick Start Your Career in Construction
This is a fantastic opportunity to kick start your career in the construction industry with a reputable company known for delivering outstanding projects. You will work towards your Level 2 Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship Qualification and if you're committed, eager to learn, and looking for hands-on experience.
Duties Include:
- Learn and develop skills in all aspects of first and second fix joinery, including:
- Building traditional roofs
- Installing windows and doors
- Laying floor joists and boards
- Erecting stud walls and hanging doors
- Fitting architraves, skirting boards, door frames and linings
- Master the use of handheld and power tools such as drills, saws, routers, and laser levelling devices
- Follow technical plans and instructions to complete high-quality work
- Collaborate with colleagues and customers to deliver exceptional results
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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.
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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.
- Carrying 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.
Training Schedule
- Day release to Macclesfield College once a week.
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