To be an apprentice, you need to be employed for a minimum of 30 hours a week and attend college one day a week. An Architectural Joiner will normally be employed in a workshop producing timber-based building components and other architectural products, such as doors, windows, units and staircases, which are then transported to construction sites to be installed by site carpenters.
On this apprenticeship, you will learn the technical principles of architectural joinery and how they are applied in routine tasks, such as setting out and producing cutting lists, marking out from setting out details and producing cutting lists, fitting and assembling routine products. Apprentices are taught how to accurately take site and workplace dimensions and to how use architectural joinery materials, such as timber, adhesives and fixings.
You will learn how to carry out a range of job tasks including drawing, measuring, marking out, fitting, finishing, positioning and securing. You will learn how to mark out timber from setting out details for the manufacture of doors, windows and opening lights, units and/or fitments and staircases. You will also create, fit and assemble components to manufacture doors, windows with opening lights, units and/or fitments and staircases.
All apprentices are taught the principles of health, safety and welfare and how these are applied
in the workplace and how to understand their responsibilities under current employment and safety legislation, such as The Health and Safety at Work Act. You will learn how to use, maintain and store marking and testing tools, hand tools, power tools and associated equipment.
