Carpentry and Joinery Apprentice

The Trade of Carpentry & Joinery

The trade of Carpentry & Joinery is wide and varied, encompassing most of the skills required across the Wood Trades. These skills are not confined to working with wood but also include the use of metals, plastics, and fabrics. A Carpenter & Joiner works across multiple domains within the trade, including the following:

This area requires the Carpenter & Joiner to engage in setting out, producing, and assembling items of joinery such as:

• Stairs

• Doors

• Windows

• Built-in furniture

Site work involves the construction of buildings or houses, including:

• 1st fixing

• Formwork

• Roofs

• 2nd fixing

This work is split into two categories:

• Construction contracts

• Civil engineering contracts

Maintenance work involves a variety of tasks related to the upkeep of public and private buildings such as shops and factories.

• Renovating buildings

• Shopfitting

• Exhibition/display work

• Upper floors

• Flat roofs

• Pitched roofs

• Hip roofs

• Trussed (pitching) roofs

• Load-bearing and non-load-bearing partitions

• Walls

• Columns

• Floors

• Stairs

Construction and hanging of:

• Framed and sheeted doors

• Panelled doors

• Flush doors

• Construction and installation of internal and external door frames

• Construction and installation of windows

• 1st and 2nd fixing on buildings

Operation of tools such as:

• Saw

• Planer

• Drill

• Router

• Screwdriver

• Ballistic gun

• Sander

• Jigsaw

• Construction of moulds

• Construction of centres for arches

• Specialist joinery

• Construction of fittings

• Setting out buildings

• Site levelling

• Communication

• Customer relations

• Adaptability

• Teamwork

• Ability to work independently

• Initiative

• Problem-solving

• Planning

• Information gathering

• Quality systems

• Safety awareness

• Use and care of hand tools

• Interpreting drawings

• Measurement

• Setting out and marking out

• Production planning

• Calculations

• Work practices

• Use of manufactured boards

• Fixings and ironmongery

• Basic wood joints

• Knock-down (K/D) fittings

• Setting up and operating machines for specific operations