Site Carpentry Apprentice
LILYWOOD CARPENTRY LIMITED
BARNET (EN4 8NT)
Closes in 17 days (Sunday 20 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 July 2025
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Summary
Lilywood Carpentry are looking for a proactive individual, committed to a career in the carpentry industry. Full training is provided one day per week at college to support you through completing your apprenticeship, whilst working with us to gain skills, knowledge, and experience to start your career as a site carpenter.
- Wage
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£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday 8am- 4pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 30 July 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
- Understand health and safety and safe working practices
- Fundamentals of site carpentry
- Carry out and install timber frames, linings, and coverings
- Install flat roof decking, erect timber stud partitions, and install straight flights of stairs and handrails
- Installing first fix components (door frames, window boards, linings)
- Carry out structural carcassing work
- Installing second fix components (doors, skirting/architraves, kitchens, cladding)
- Loft conversation
- Use of hand tools, portable power tools and equipment
Where you'll work
13 WEST WALK
EAST BARNET
BARNET
EN4 8NT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BARNET & SOUTHGATE COLLEGE
Your 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, 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.
Your training plan
The successful apprentice will attend college 1 day per week at our Colindale Campus.
More training information
Full details of the programme contents can provide via our Learner Journey Map.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Maths and English (grade 4/C or above)Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
This line of work is highly demanding and physically hard work. You will be required to work in all weathers and keep up with demanding build programmes. There is a possibility of travelling to different sites
About this company
At Lilywood, we excel in crafting extraordinary spaces and dream lofts that exceed your expectations. With our teams expert project management skills, we guide you from inception to completion, ensuring a seamless and stress-free experience. Let us plan and design your dream loft.
After this apprenticeship
On the successful completion of your apprenticeship, we would discuss the potential for working with us full time. This would be dependent on how well you perform on the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BARNET & SOUTHGATE COLLEGE
Shaun Murphy
Apprentice@barnetsouthgate.ac.uk
02037644333
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329346.
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Closes in 17 days (Sunday 20 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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