Bench Joiner Apprentice
DAVID GILBERT JOINERY LIMITED
HELSTON (TR12 7BE)
Closes in 30 days (Friday 22 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 22 July 2025
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Summary
David Gilbert Joinery Ltd are offering an exciting opportunity to join their team as an apprentice bench joiner. Gain the knowledge and skills to kickstart your career in this exciting industry.
- Wage
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£15,704 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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Scheduled:
Monday to Friday
8am to 4.30pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 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 are not limited to:
- Reading and Interpreting Technical Drawings- Understanding plans and cutting lists to produce accurate components
- Measuring and Marking Out Timber- Using rules, squares, gauges, and marking tools to prepare materials precisely
- Cutting Timber to Size- Using hand tools, power tools, and fixed machinery (e.g. circular saws, bandsaws, planers)
- Assembling Components- Building windows, doors, frames, staircases, cabinetry, and other joinery products
- Using Joinery Techniques- Such as mortise and tenon, dowel, dovetail, biscuit joints, etc.
- Finishing Work- Sanding, filling, oiling, staining, painting, or preparing for finishing by others
- Fitting Ironmongery- Installing handles, hinges, locks, latches, restrictors, etc.
- Glazing- Fitting single or double-glazed units into doors and windows as required
- Quality Checking- Ensuring all joinery products meet the required standard and tolerances
- Maintaining Tools and Machinery- Keeping workstations safe, clean, and tools in good condition.
- Timber deliveries- Helping unload the trucks and storing the timber
- Health & Safety Compliance- Following risk assessments, wearing PPE, and working safely at all times
Site-Based Tasks (when applicable):
- Installing Joinery on Site- Fitting windows, doors, staircases, and built-in furniture during building projects
- Making Adjustments on Site- Trimming and fitting to match site conditions
- Snagging and Final Finishing- Ensuring a clean and accurate finish that meets client expectations
Where you'll work
THE JOINERY WORKSHOP
PENVEARNE FARM
CURY CROSS LANES
HELSTON
TR12 7BE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
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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.
Training schedule
- You will be working towards a Level 2 Carpentry & Joinery apprenticeship standard
- You will be required to attend Cornwall College Camborne on a weekly basis as part of the apprenticeship training
- You will receive on and off the job training and support from an assessor and your employer
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade D/3)
- Maths (grade D/3)
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
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
We manufacture bespoke doors, windows, staircases and furniture, and have a reputation for high quality joinery. Our customers are usually within a 20-mile radius of Helston.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential to progress onto Level 3 Carpentry and Joinery with the company
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Ceri
01209 616103
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333151.
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Closes in 30 days (Friday 22 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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