Apprentice Bench Joiner

Bullen Joinery

Cromer (NR27 9BW)

Closes on Monday 6 April 2026

Posted on 3 March 2026

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Summary

We are looking for an Apprentice Bench Joiner to join our team, now called Bullen Joinery. This qualification will require attendance at college one day a week. You will work alongside and learn from qualified craftspeople to develop your trade skills and knowledge of site-based activities.

Wage

£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday 07:15 - 15:30.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

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

  • Take accurate measurements for the timber component
  • Mark out cuts and joints using pencils, squares, and gauges
  • Help read and interpret technical drawings and job specs
  • Saw and cut materials to size
  • Plane, sand, and shape wood
  • Prepare components for joints or assemblies

Where you'll work

Central Road
Cromer
NR27 9BW

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CITY COLLEGE NORWICH

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

  • Carpentry and Joinery Level 2
  • At Norwich City College, one day per week
  • 2-year course
  • Site based for the rest of the week

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade C/4 or above)
  • Maths (grade C/4 or above)

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
  • Team working
  • Good timekeeping

About this employer

Mr Bullen built up a reputation for thoroughness, high quality of workmanship and reliability, and these attributes helped him to expand his business, which was incorporated in 1925. It remained principally a small jobbing family business but demand for its services was such that it quickly grew and developed a high quality joinery manufacturing brand. On the 1st July 1935 R G Carter Limited acquired the business, this enabled the company to continue to develop with a significant parent providing financial security and sustainability.

https://www.bullenjoinery.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

  • Company pension
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Free on-site parking
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Life insurance

After this apprenticeship

This position can lead to a higher-level apprenticeship and working up the ladder to manager.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CITY COLLEGE NORWICH

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000018704.

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Closes on Monday 6 April 2026