Apprentice Carpenter
The Green Oak Carpentry Company Ltd
Liss, 2 miles from Liss train station
£8.00 an hour. Monday-Friday, 16-18 year old 7:30am-4:20pm with an hour lunch - 39 hours a week. 19+ 7:30am-4:50pm with a 30 minute lunch - 44.10 hours a week
The education for this apprenticeship will start in September, employment is ASAP.
At The Green Oak Carpentry Company, oak frame design is our passion. With 30+ years of experience and a team of highly skilled craftsmen and designers, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional bespoke oak frames. Our expert team collaborates with our clients to understand their vision, providing innovative design solutions that blend seamlessly with a property’s existing architecture. Our attention to detail, precision craftsmanship, and deep understanding of oak as a material enable us to craft beautiful, durable, and timeless oak frames. We have 21 employees, with at least 13 site based employees.
We are Designers and fabricators of traditional and contemporary timber structures including oak framed houses, barns and conservatories. We also specialise in historic restoration projects. Winners of numerous awards for our work including 3 times winner of the prestigious Gold Wood Award. An exceptional achievement – no other company has achieved this accolade more than once.
You will be part of a 4-person team working at our workshops in Liss. Every team that fabricates a timber frame, also go to site to assemble so you get to see the project from start to finish. We work all over the country and Europe, so you will get to travel.
As part of the team you will learn to use traditional ‘lofting’ techniques to mark out timber frames, using traditional mortice and tenon joints, that will then be cut by hand and reassembled for final fit up. You will learn to read fabrication drawings and understand how a timber frame building goes together.
Skills
- Good timing is a must!
- Easy to get on with
- Communication
Personal qualities
- Keen to learn and show willing to help out with all aspects of tasks within the team
- Able to use own initiative
Qualifications
GCSE 9-4/A*-C or Functional Skills Level 2 in English and maths, proof of certificates is required.
Due to the demands of the role, applications with less than the required grades will not be considered. Equally, applications received without stating GCSE maths and English/Functional Skills/equivalent results will not be considered.
What does the programme include?
This occupation is found in both the new build and refurbishment construction sector. The construction industry is central to creating the homes, schools, hospitals, energy and transport infrastructure society needs. There is growing demand for carpenters and joiners to help meet the need for the transition to modern methods of construction and sustainability. The broad purpose of the occupation is working with wood-based materials and associated products to create and install building components. This typically involves shaping and cutting materials, installing finished materials like partitions, doors, staircases, window frames, mouldings, timber floor coverings and erecting structural components such as floor joists and roofs. All work needs to be carried out safely, using the appropriate tools and to the quality specified.
In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with other construction roles such as bricklayers, plasterers and plumbers, supervisors, site management, architects, designers, contractors and customers.
An employee in this occupation will be responsible for using machinery and tools under supervision to create structures or components from the designs, plans and specifications of architects and designers that meet the clients' expectations. On site these could include roof structures, floors, partitions and second fix work such as door frames and skirting.
Types of work needed for evidence
Below is a list of different tasks an apprentice will be asked to perform in the workplace. You will need to collect photo and video evidence of you undertaking the work and upload the evidence to your portfolio during the apprenticeship.
Structural Carpentry
Chamber joists with herring bone strutting or solid noggins. Trimming for openings, flat roofing, furring strips, upstands, cutting and fixing decking, lantern opening, floor laying, including adhesive and fixings, truss roofing, gable ladders, bracing, hangers, truss clips, cut roofing, hips and valleys, dorma roofs, porch roofs, gallows brackets, verge and eaves, soffit, fascia barge boards, timber or plastic, timber frame standup, shuttering/formwork.
1st Fix Carpentry
Staircases, straight flight or kite winders, stud work, bulkheads, door linings, double door linings hatch way, noggins, ceilings, pattress’s for plumbing/electrical fittings, Window boards (pre-plaster), grounds of cladding (external), cladding (external) timber, cement board, plastic, window and door frames (external), pipe boxings (pre-plaster).
2nd Fix Carpentry
Door hanging (internal) plus door stops, latches, locks, bathroom locks, keeps, mouldings, architrave, skirting, dado, picture rail, curtain battens/coat hook rail, handrail and balustrading, spindles, base rails newel caps, mop stick handrail and brackets, grounds for cladding/panelling (post-plaster) (internal), cladding/panelling (post-plaster) (Internal), kitchen fitting, worktop, plinths, cornice, pelmet, pipe boxing (post-plaster), finals.
Miscellaneous
Guttering, bath panels.
What attendance is required?
A 24-month apprenticeship programme delivered on a day-release basis (one day per week) at City of Portsmouth College's North Harbour Campus in North Harbour, Portsmouth. Time spent training will come under the working hours per week.
Your Apprenticeship Liaison Officer will liaise with you to set up mutually convenient times for consultation and assessment visits at your place of work.
Learning and assessment
An EPA is an assessment at the end of your apprenticeship. It will assess you against the knowledge, skills, and behaviours in the occupational standard, your training will cover these. The EPA is your opportunity to show an independent assessor how well you can carry out the occupation you have been trained for.
Assessment methods
Multiple-choice test: It will be closed book, meaning you will not have access to any books or reference materials. The test will have 40 multiple-choice questions. You will have 60 minutes to complete it.
Practical assessment with questions: You will be observed by an independent assessor completing a set of tasks. It will last 12 hours. They will ask you at least 5 questions.
Interview underpinned by a portfolio of evidence: You will have an interview with an independent assessor. It will last at least 60 minutes. They will ask you at least 10 questions. The questions will be about certain aspects of your occupation. You will compile a portfolio of evidence throughout your apprenticeship, before the EPA gateway. You can use it to help answer the questions.
The overall grades available for this apprenticeship are:
- fail
- pass
- merit
- distinction
When you pass the EPA, you will be awarded your apprenticeship certificate.
Things to keep in mind
- 20 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Summer work do
- Christmas do
- Bonuses
- We will put you through PASMA, CSCS and various crane courses
Future prospects
Upon successful completion of this Level 2 Apprenticeship, and subject to progress as an employee, The Green Oak Carpentry Company would like to progress you onto the Level 3 Apprenticeship. Upon successful completion of the Level 3 we would put you on competitive Carpenters wage and start to build on your skills.