Carpentry and Joinery Apprentice (GS8-0002-25)

TRAINING AND APPRENTICESHIPS IN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

Epping (CM16 6LT)

Closes in 15 days (Saturday 30 August 2025)

Posted on 14 August 2025

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Summary

Successful apprentice candidates will join our first fix joinery team in putting together our proprietary timber frame. This frame has been developed by our design team over a number of years and forms a key component of our house types.

Wage

£17,680 a year

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Training course
Carpentry and joinery (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Friday between 8am to 5pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

2

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

  • General work assisting the carpenter, including site preparation, clearance and maintaining general site tidiness as directed.
  • As directed by the Line Manager to assist with storage, lifting, fetching supplies, unloading, checking deliveries, and undertaking tasks.
  • Receive training so that you can assist with identifying hazards, defects and the need for adjustment or repair; to ensure compliance with agreed codes, law, working practices and health and safety.
  • Measuring, marking up, cutting, shaping, fitting and finishing timber as directed by the team.
  • Construct the timber frame from our timber panels.
  • Install the sheathing boards to the panels
  • Use a range of hand and power tools to complete works where necessary.
  • Drawing and working out technical calculations were required.
  • Fitting interiors, such as staircases, doors, skirting boards, cupboards, kitchens, ironmongery, window boards.
  • These works are site-upon-site dependent and not always required.
  • Attend site briefings, meetings, toolbox talks, inductions, team meetings and raise any concerns that you have with the Line Manager.
  • Carry out relevant trade duties on responsive and planned works as requested to client specifications.
  • Work to allocated times and schedules for the project.
  • Work as part of a team and use materials safely.
  • Understand how to communicate with others and comply with instructions and directions.

Where you'll work

Savannah
High Road, Thornwood
Epping
CM16 6LT

Training

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

Training provider

HARLOW 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

Apprentices will attend Harlow College once per week to carry out practical and theory training.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English Language (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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Physical fitness

Other requirements

Applicants must either hold a CSCS card or be prepared to sit the test and purchase a CSCS card. Due to local planning restrictions, only applicants who live within the town of Epping can be considered. Due to the working hours, applicants must be aged 18 or above.

About this employer

Training & Apprenticeships in Construction Ltd (TrAC) is a DfE approved Flexi Job Apprenticeship Agency who will employ you for the duration of the apprenticeship and pay your salary. You should be aware that you will be placed with a host employer but you will not be employed by them. Your placement may change during the course of your apprenticeship but TrAC will employ you throughout, as well as continuing to support you into employment or further learning at the end of your apprenticeship.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Upon completion of the apprenticeship, you will hopefully move into permanent employment and may progress onto the level 3 craft carpentry apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HARLOW COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337183.

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