Apprentice Joiner

Prepare and maintain a safe working environment. Comply with health and safety regulations, standards and guidance. Learn about different types of timber and storage procedures. Follow plans to prepare the timber for manufacture of doors, windows and staircases. Assist the joiners in assembly of frames. Sanding and preparation before spraying. Finishing and completion of frames after spraying including glazing. Use, maintain and store specific joinery tools and equipment. Ensure the factory is clean and tidy and clearing the outside areas. Follow and understand verbal and written instructions.

Training:

This apprenticeship will give you the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to work as an Architectural Joiner and will include the following:

Health and safety to include Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, Manual Handling and Working at Height Regulations, use of PPE etc. Principles of building construction terminology and components, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and environmental and sustainability considerations. Interpreting and producing relevant information from drawings, specifications and work instructions including the basic principles of Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Understand the characteristics, quality, uses, sustainability, limitations and defects associated with timber and timber-based products and components. How to use hand and power tools including narrow bandsaws, crosscut saws, re-saws, panel saws, surface planers, thicknessers and mortices. How to manufacture routine architectural joinery products such as door, window, straight stairs and fitting parts, how to produce door, window and fitting parts, and how to finish products to the specified standard for the parts to accept a range of finishes. How to install a range of common ironmongery components for doors, windows and units using a range of hand and power tools.

You will also produce a portfolio of evidence demonstrating examples of your work produced through the apprenticeship.

You will attend York College on a day release basis and the qualification achieved will be Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship level 2.

Training Outcome:

On completion of the apprenticeship, you will be a fully qualified bench joiner able to work for us on an ongoing basis, without supervision and in charge of your own jobs.

Employer Description:
Laverack Joinery makes windows, stairs and doors and anything made from timber. Laverack Joinery was established in July 1984 by Robert Laverack. Robert is from a large family within the construction industry, he was trained as a bench hand joiner and saw the need to establish a joinery manufacturing business supplying purpose-made joinery items for the local trade. The company now supplies products to the trade nationwide. After a period of growth and expansion, the company relocated to larger freehold premises in Birch Park Industrial Estate, Huntington Road, York in 1990. The premises are equipped with a substantial amount of modern machinery, complete with a dust extraction system that provides the heating for the premises. Laverack Joinery is a family run business with the next generation of the family already employed within the business.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday between 7.45am to 4.15pm.

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Number skills,Analytical skills,Logical,Team working,Creative,Initiative,Physical fitness,Reliable,Motivated,Willing to work hard