Advanced Carpenter Apprenticeship LVL3
GREENLIGHT SAFETY & CONSULTANCY LTD
Plymouth (PL7 4JN)
Closes in 15 days (Sunday 28 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 June 2026
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Summary
Are you a Level 2 qualified carpenter looking to take your skills, career, and earning potential to the next level?
We are a Independent Training Provider bas in Plymouth, looking for a dedicated Apprentice Carpenter to join our team for an advanced Level 3 Program.
- Wage
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£19,827.60 a year
- Training course
- Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, Hours TBC with employer.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 30 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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5
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
As a LVL 3 Carpentry Apprentice, you will move beyond standard carpentry tasks to take on technical specifications and supervisory responsibilities:
- Advanced Technical Skills: Work on highly complex builds and interpret advanced technical specifications with precision
- Leadership & Supervision: Run sections of jobs, support the team on-site, and learn how to effectively lead trades and projects
- Quality Control: Take direct responsibility for inspecting finished work, ensuring all installations meet rigorous quality standards
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Work seamlessly alongside other construction trades on-site to ensure smooth project delivery
Where you'll work
Unit C E Huxley Close
Plymouth
PL7 4JN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3)
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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 including RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work and control measures.
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications and provide work instructions.
- Calculate resource and cost quantities from site measurements.
- Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems for example segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply planning, work scheduling and time management techniques to identify and agree production plan targets.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Select, check and use hand and power tools.
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital. For example, job sheets, time sheets, risk assessments, method statements, equipment service records, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, incident reports, requisition sheets, quality records.
- Communicate and report in written form any issues against the production plan and contribute to the solutions.
- Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
- CSC: Apply craft site first fix carpentry techniques and practices to install timber stud partitions with standard and non-standard (non–90 degree) turns.
- CSC: Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to install complex first fix elements: 1. fire door linings, 2. floor coverings with non-standard (non–90 degree) returns and 3. structural partitions.
- CSC: Apply craft site second fix carpentry techniques and practices to install double side hung doors with associated ironmongery and lining. Non-standard (non–90 degree) mouldings.
- CSC: Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to install complex second fix elements: 1. bespoke wall and floor units (commissioned order with features or like for like replacement), 2. worktops with masons mitre, 3. cornices and fitments, 4. spindles and handrails to stairs with turns, 5. fire doors. 6. service encasements with access panels, 7. non-standard (non-90 degree) door linings.
- CSC: Apply craft site carpentry techniques and practices to erect trussed or traditional roofs rafter roofs with hips, valleys and dormers.
- CSC: Form non-standard (non–90 degree) joints.
- CSC: Replace or repair carpentry work, for example, structural timbers doors, glazing, window frames and sills, mouldings, timber guttering and fixings or sash window cords.
- CAJ: Set out, mark out and form curved joinery products.
- CAJ: Form shaped wood working joints.
- CAJ: Set up and use CNC machinery to produce joinery products.
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural joinery techniques to manufacture and assemble a window frame with, curved head and non-standard (non–90 degree) window bars.
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural joinery techniques and practices to manufacture and assemble complex timber second fix products: 1. fire doors 2. shaped , non-standard doors 3. bespoke wall and floor units (commissioned order with features or like for like replacement).
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural joinery techniques and practices to manufacture and assemble complex timber first fix products: 1. staircases with turns 2. fire door linings, 3. bespoke windows with non-standard (non–90 degree) angles, 4. shaped, non-standard door linings.
- CAJ: Apply craft architectural techniques to create shaped work using specialist jigs and fixed machinery.
- Comply with health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Identify and use safety control equipment including RPE, dust suppression, PPE and LEV.
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work and control measures.
- Interpret and extract information using paper based or digital techniques from drawings, specifications and provide work instructions.
- Calculate resource and cost quantities from site measurements.
- Apply environmental and sustainable principles in compliance with regulations, standards and systems for example segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply planning, work scheduling and time management techniques to identify and agree production plan targets.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Select, check and use hand and power tools.
- Complete documentation - paper based or digital. For example, job sheets, time sheets, risk assessments, method statements, equipment service records, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, incident reports, requisition sheets, quality records.
- Communicate and report in written form any issues against the production plan and contribute to the solutions.
- Obtain, monitor and rotate stock and supplies.
Training schedule
- Total Duration: 18 months total (comprising 15 months of practical training + 3 months End Point Assessment)
- Training Centre Attendance: Structured block training consisting of around 90% if your time being spent on site, and the remaining 10% at the centre
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Level 2 Carpentry qualification 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Based near or commute to sites near Plymouth.
- Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a clear motivation to progress into a leadership or management role.
- Excellent communication skills for collaborating with other trades and leading site tasks.
About this employer
We are an Independent Training Provider based in Plymouth
After this apprenticeship
This role is designed to accelerate your progression from a skilled installer to a highly competent professional capable of delivering complex projects, mastering advanced techniques, and leading teams on site.
The apprenticeship is focused on fast-tracking your path into supervisory and management positions, including foreperson, team leader, and site management roles.
Throughout the programme, you will work towards:
- SCS Gold Card Status – Successful completion of the apprenticeship is intended to lead directly to achieving your CSCS Gold Card
- Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) – Gain your SMSTS qualification within a set timeframe, strengthening your knowledge of site safety and management responsibilities
- Specialist Industry Certification – Achieve advanced qualifications, including a Fire Door Level 2 Certificate, supported by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) and awarded through NOCN
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GREENLIGHT TRAINING LIMITED
Kieron Rollason
krollason@greenlightsc.co.uk
07456 638368
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000036941.
Apply now
Closes in 15 days (Sunday 28 June 2026 at 11:59pm)