Level 2 Apprentice Carpenter/Joiner "Oxford"
CoTrain
Oxford (OX4 4GB)
Closes in 10 days (Friday 9 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 September 2026
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Summary
For this apprenticeship you will be based at an exciting new build project on the Oxford Science Park. You will be installing bespoke joinery products to a high standard of finish on this new build site.
- Wage
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£16,224 to £25,775.88, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Help with the cost of Travel to and from work and College will be supported financially which can be claimed back weekly via our expenses process
- Training course
- Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 7.30am - 4.00pm working week, with one day being spent at college to gain the qualifications for this apprenticeship. Or college may run a block week attendance programme.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 November 2026
- 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
- Install bespoke joinery products using a range of hand and power tools to a high standard
- Study drawings and learn how to interpret drawings
- Learn standards for inspections of quality
- Comply with the site-specific environmental action plan requirements
- Understanding of site boundaries, access points and site office procedures
- Build relationships with colleagues and other trades where workloads cross over.
- Keep a tidy work area and comply to all health and safety procedures on site. Wear correct PPE at all times
- Manage and co-ordinate the safe and tidy storage of materials delivered to the site
- Shadow and learn from qualified tradesmen on the project to develop your skills and understanding
Where you'll work
The Hinshelwood Building
Edmund Halley Road
Oxford
OX4 4GB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ABINGDON AND WITNEY COLLEGE
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.
Training schedule
- This apprenticeship is a standard qualification titled "Carpentry & Joinery" at Level 2
- May be a day release or block release college programme
More training information
- Working with the on-site joinery team you will be taught how to install joinery products built specifically for this project
- Work will be checked so that it meets the required quality and functional use
- Will learn how to work within a team and other sub-contractors to ensure you have a full understanding of the project
- Overcome issues
- Health and Safety to be observed and complied with at all times
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Be comfortable working at heights
- Working in all weather conditions
About this employer
CoTrain is a program under SECBE . As a shared apprenticeship scheme and a Flexible Job Apprenticeship Agency partly funded by CITB to provide a route into industry for anyone wishing to complete an apprenticeship. We employ and mentor the apprentice and place them with our construction partners and colleges to gain the correct experience & skills to complete their qualifications.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Typically, you would advance onto a Level 3 carpentry apprenticeship
- Or choose to work on site as a tradesman to further your knowledge and experience so that you can consider further training later in your career
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CoTrain
Sarah Hall
Sarah.Hall@secbe.org.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055760.
Apply now
Closes in 10 days (Friday 9 October 2026 at 11:59pm)