Apprenticeship training course
Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3)
Working with building materials (most often wood) to create and install building components.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 15 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Construction and the built environment
- Maximum funding
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£13,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Advanced architectural joiner
- Advanced site carpenter
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- 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.
Full information on Craft carpentry and joinery (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.