Carpentry Apprentice
WRN CONSTRUCTION LTD
EPPING (CM16 6EQ)
Closes in 29 days (Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 July 2025
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Summary
Wrn Construction have a great opportunity for someone wanting to train as a carpenter/joiner learning new skills covering all aspects of laboring along with Health and Safety .
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 08:00-16:00.
Overtime and weekend work optional.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 25 August 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
Duties to include but not limited to;
- Setting up workspaces
- Helping with fitting steel beams
- Cutting insulation
- Keeping the area tidy and free from hazardsHolding or carrying materials (e.g. timber, sheet goods)
- Supporting larger installations (e.g. lifting door frames, joists, stud walls)
- Helping with measurements or levelling
- Passing tools and equipment
- Cutting timber
- Fixing simple structures like noggins or battens
- Learning to use hand tools and basic power tools (e.g. drills, saws)
- Measuring and marking
As you learn more you will be helping with more timber structure work.
Where you'll work
10 MARCONI BUNGALOWS
HIGH ROAD
NORTH WEALD
EPPING
CM16 6EQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
HARLOW 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
Level 2 Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship Standard
- The apprentice will be required to undertake apprenticeship training at Harlow College
- This occupation is found in both the new build and refurbishment construction sector
- The construction industry is central to creating the homes, schools, hospitals, energy and transport infrastructure society needs
- There is a growing demand for carpenters and joiners to help meet the need for new homes
- The broad purpose of the occupation is working with building materials (most often wood) to create and install building components
- This typically involves shaping and cutting materials, installing finished materials like partitions, doors, staircases, window frames, mouldings, timber floor coverings and erecting structural components such as floor joists and roofs
- All work needs to be carried out safely, using the appropriate tools and to the quality specified
- A site carpenter will prepare and install basic building components e.g. doors, straight staircases, wall and floor units and erect structural carpentry and roof structures on a building site or in domestic and commercial premises, as well as repairs to our client's portfolio of stock
Carpentry and joinery / Skills England
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 2 or higher)
- Maths (grade Grade 2 or higher)
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
- 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
- Enthusiasm/Motivated
- Trustworthy
- Reliable
Other requirements
Starts dates may change as dependent on finding the right candidate and course start dates. We work in and around the M25 so if you don't have your own vehicle you will need to use public transport. Must be ready to start work on site at 8am. Overtime and weekend work optional. Working at height, on scaffolding, indoors and outdoors.
About this company
Welcome to WRN Construction, your trusted partner in building dreams and transforming spaces. Our story begins in the vibrant heart of London, UK, where we have been a cornerstone of the construction industry since 2019. With a passionate commitment to excellence, we specialize in loft conversions and offer a comprehensive range of construction services. Our mission is to turn your visions into reality, one project at a time.
After this apprenticeship
Possible future position/permanent post on completion of your apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HARLOW COLLEGE
Kellie Tighe
ktighe@harlow-college.ac.uk
07377125961
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331057.
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Closes in 29 days (Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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