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Site Carpenter, Architectural Joiner Level 2 Apprenticeship
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Assist with first and second fix carpentry: framing, joists, stud walls, doors, windows, skirting, architraves, stair components.
Measure, mark out, cut, shape, and fit timber and sheet materials using hand and power tools.
What you'll do at work
- Read and interpret drawings, specifications, and method statements.
- Set out works, check levels, and ensure dimensional accuracy.
- Carry out repairs, snagging, and finishing to required standards.
- Maintain safe, tidy work areas; load/unload, move materials, and handle waste responsibly.
- Care for tools, plant, and equipment; report defects.
- Be involved in the company's extended day to day operations beyond carpentry roles.
Where you'll work
76 HEATHFIELD ROAD
BROMLEY
BR1 3RW
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES
Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
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:
- 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
Bromley.
More training information
Some of our day-to-day tasks at Bromley Builds include:
Groundworks
- General labouring for foundations, shuttering, setting levels and measuring, installing rebar and mesh, mixing, pouring, levelling and floating concrete. Options for learning on the excavator/mini diggers are available in-house.
Building
- Assist with minor brickwork and blockwork and support bricklayer subcontractors during wall builds such as foundations backfill. All internal construction carried out in-house including full roof installations of tile or EPDM, rooflights/velux fitting, stud walling, battening, insulation and plasterboard installation. Floor makeup works— concrete slab, block and beam, damp proofing, insulation —are completed in-house; larger or specialist screed needs are subcontracted. Landscaping and patio installations are completed in-house.
Demolition and steelwork
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- We undertake all this in-house. Removal of load bearing walls, and safe working with props and acro’s, installation of all steelworks and the closing up of exposed spaces and dry pack above the steels to support the walls above. Where cracking has occurred in the brickwork, we will stitch the areas back together in-house.
Plumbing
- We typically handle first and second fix plumbing and underground drainage, including connections to mains sewers or soakaways; on tight schedules we bring in a plumbing subcontractor to support first-fix work. We also produce bathrooms refurbs too so often installing baths, showers, sinks, vanity units, radiators and toilets.
Finishing
- Plastering is completed by our trusted subcontractor. We undertake painting and decorating, tiling on straightforward projects, simple flooring installations, plus skirting, architrave and door hanging. Kitchen cabinetry installations and general cabinetry/understairs storage solutions. All work regarding fascia, soffits, trims, guttering and downpipes is undertaken in-house.
Windows and doors
- All upvc/aluminium glazing and bifold tasks are undertaken by us depending on timeframe requirements. External wooden doors and fire doors are currently outsourced to a subcontractor; however, it would be good to bring this in-house.
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Bromley Builds is a construction company run by me, Ryan Bromley. We're based in Bromley and support mostly domestic projects (and occasional commercial) for design and build extensions, loft conversion, refurbishments, garden rooms, landscaping and everything in between. We've seen large growth since I incorporated the company over two years ago, and now is the time to start growing and nurturing an internal team to push projects on.
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Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037350.
Closes on Wednesday 23 September 2026
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