You will work with experienced trade specialists towards gaining a level 2 Site Carpentry Apprenticeship qualification with a highly reputable national construction company. Your training will be on site and in block weeks at college.

Requirements

• Desirable qualifications:
  • GCSE in English (grade 4/C)
  • GCSE in maths (grade 4/C)
  • GCSE in any other subject (grade 3/D)
• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
• Skills:
  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Team working
  • Physical fitness
• Other requirements:
  • We welcome applicants who live within a 45 minute public transport commute from our site/office locations, or one hour by your own transport.
  • Please note we only accept one application per person, per recruitment year for this programme.
  • Please note that we receive a great deal of interest in our vacancies every year and will close applications early for locations which are over-subscribed.

Responsibilities

• Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
• You’ll learn both on the job and during intensive residential training weeks at college. All accommodation, travel and subsistence is paid for during the block weeks and you’ll start off with three weeks in college, returning home each weekend. This will prepare you to fully contribute as soon as you get on site.
• You will then return to college approximately every 20 weeks, for a two-week block of intensive training.
• During your apprenticeship, you will be expected to complete the Barratt Redrow Training Manual along with your site and college work within agreed time limits and standards.
• You will need to be consistent at gathering quality work-based evidence, work with your colleagues to learn and develop your trade skills and communicate politely with lecturers, customers and colleagues.
• On a typical day you will be required to:
  • Safely use and maintain hand tools
  • Safely use and maintain portable power tools
  • Safely use and maintain other equipment
• 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.
• Training schedule:
  • Health and safety to include Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, Manual Handling and Working at Height Regulations, use of PPE etc.
  • Principles of building construction terminology and components, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and environmental and sustainability considerations
  • Interpreting and producing relevant information from drawings, specifications and work instructions including the basic principles of Computer Aided Design (CAD)
  • Understand the characteristics, quality, uses, sustainability, limitations and defects associated with timber and timber-based products and components
  • How to use hand and power tools including portable circular saws, drills, saws, planers, routers, sanders, multi-functional tools and nail guns
  • How to carry out first fixing work including timber frames and linings, timber coverings, flat roof decking, timber stud partitions, straight flights of stairs and installing handrails and spindles to straight flights of stairs
  • How to carry out second fixing work including installation of service encasements, cladding, wall and floor units, mouldings, side hung doors and ironmongery
  • How to create structural carcassing work, how to erect trussed rafter roofs, how to construct gables, verge and eaves, how to install floor joists and coverings
  • You will also produce a portfolio of evidence demonstrating examples of your work throughout the apprenticeship

Benefits

• Wage: £15,311.40 to £24,761.88, depending on your age
• National Minimum Wage
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• Hours: Monday - Friday between 8.00am and 5.00pm (details to be confirmed). 39 hours a week
• Start date: Tuesday 1 September 2026
• Duration: 1 year 9 months
• Positions available: 1
• Training course: Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
• Training provider: YORK COLLEGE
• Training course: Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
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• After this apprenticeship:
  • On completion of this apprenticeship, the apprentice will have satisfied the requirements to obtain a Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card at the appropriate level
  • Apprentices will progress to a wide range of employment opportunities in the workplace. Self-employment or starting a business may also be an option
  • If you’re as ambitious as we think you are, you may want to continue for a further year with our Advanced Apprenticeship

Application Process

• Online Application
• Video Interview
• College Tour and Interview with Hiring Manager
• Offer of Employment
• Please see the application process below:

About Barratt Redrow

• We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5 star house builder thirteen years in a row, that’s more than any other major house builder. This is because we combine the brightest minds, the latest technology, and a genuine commitment to putting customers first. We want the best people in the industry to help us shape the future of building.

Contact

• The contact for this apprenticeship is: YORK COLLEGE
• The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000012954.
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