Level 2 Apprentice Bench Joiner
SPECIALIST JOINERY PROJECTS LTD
BASILDON (SS14 3EE)
Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 September 2025
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Summary
A bench joiner apprenticeship with SJP Ltd is the gateway to a rewarding career in woodworking, blending time-honoured craft traditions with modern techniques and materials. At SJP Ltd alongside hands-on training, apprentices will attend college to further their education to ultimately become a fully qualified member of our successful team.
- 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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Monday to Friday 7:30am to 4pm, shifts, may work evenings and weekends.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 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
- Material Selection and Preparation: Understanding the properties of softwoods, hardwoods, and manufactured boards; selecting the right material for the job; preparing surfaces for joining
- Tool Proficiency: Mastery of hand tools (chisels, saws, planes) and power tools (routers, sanders, drills); routine maintenance and safe use
- Joinery Techniques: Learning classic joints such as dovetails, mortise and tenon, box joints, and finger joints; practice in assembling and gluing components
- Technical Drawing Interpretation: Reading drawings, measuring and marking accurately, scaling drawings to correct dimensions
- Machinery Operation: Training on fixed workshop machinery like table saws, spindle moulders, and thicknessers, with an emphasis on safety
- Quality Assurance: Inspection skills, troubleshooting faults, and ensuring products meet client specifications and safety standards
Where you'll work
26-28 BOWLERS CROFT
BASILDON
SS14 3EE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BUILDING CRAFTS 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
Carpentry and Joinery Level 2.
Building Crafts College, Kennard Road, Stratford, E15 1AH.
More training information
Architectural Joiner Level 2.
Requirements
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
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
SJP supply specialist and general joinery products to a wide range of clients spanning both the commercial and private markets. Based in Essex, and with a history of high quality product since 1993, our typical service package would include estimation, design, procurement and first rate manufacture.
After this apprenticeship
Successful apprentices can work as qualified bench joiners, progress to supervisory or managerial roles.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPECIALIST JOINERY PROJECTS LTD
mark elliott
m.elliott@sjpltd.net
01268 272821
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000339914.
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Closes in 25 days (Tuesday 30 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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