Carpentry and Joinery Level 3 Apprenticeship
Start Date: 2nd September 2024
- Length 18 Months
- Study Full Time
- Location West Lancashire College
More about the course
This Level 3 Apprenticeship in Carpentry and Joinery comprises of two main elements: Site Carpentry and the Carpentry and Joinery Standards Award. You will develop advanced skills on this Carpentry and Joinery apprenticeship, including complex roofing, dormers and floor joists, fitting double doors, bespoke kitchens and detailed mouldings.
Working alongside industry-experienced tutors and qualified tradesmen in industry, you will learn the enhanced skills you need to be a competent and skilled Carpenter and Joiner whilst learning in college and in a real-life working environment in industry.
If you’re looking to gain advanced skills, earn while you learn and become a skilled tradesman in an in-demand industry, this Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship is for you.
Entry requirements
- Employment within the sector with a contract of employment for at least 30 hours per week
- 4 GCSEs at Grade 4-9, including English and Maths
- Satisfactory completion of the college initial assessment
- Level 2 Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship qualification or NVQ Wood Occupations
What will I achieve?
After successfully completing this course, you will gain a Level 3 Carpentry and Joinery Standard
What will I learn?
- Health, safety and welfare in the workplace
- Confirming the occupational methods of work in the workplace
- Confirming the work activities and resources for the occupational work area in the workplace
- Developing and maintaining good occupational working relationships in the workplace
- Installing bespoke first fixing components – installing frames, partitions and stairs with turns
- Installing bespoke second fixing operations – fitting double doors, bespoke kitchens, detailed mouldings
- Carry out structural carcassing – complex roofing, dormers and floor joists
- Maintaining non-structural and structural components in the workplace – repairing joists, rafters, guttering and windows
- Set up and use power tools – circular saw, mitre saw, router and planer
- Practical and technical theory required by qualified site carpenter/joiner
How am I assessed?
- Portfolio based evidence
- Observations of practical activities in college and workplace
- Job knowledge questions
- Mock end point assessment
- Exam
- Interview
- Practice skills test
Where can I progress?
After successfully completing the Level 3 Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship, you will be able to progress to such roles as site supervisor, site manager or self-employed.
Course costs
This is funded by employer, please contact the team for further details
Contact our Apprenticeship team
01695 52490
wlcapprenticeships@westlancs.ac.uk
What can I do with a qualification in Construction?
Daily tasks:
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor operational efficiency and performance of materials and systems.
- Organises and plans projects, arranges work schedules, carries out inspection work and plans maintenance control.
- Designs structures such as roads, dams, bridges, railways, hydraulic systems, sewerage systems, industrial and other buildings and plans the layout of tunnels, wells and construction shafts.
- Designs foundations and earthworks.
- Determines and specifies construction methods, materials, quality and safety standards and ensures that equipment operation and maintenance comply with design specifications.
- Undertakes research and advises on soil mechanics, concrete technology, hydraulics, water and waste water treatment processes and other civil engineering matters.
Daily tasks:
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor operational efficiency and performance of materials and systems.
- Ensures that equipment, operation and maintenance comply with design specifications and safety standards.
- Designs mechanical equipment, such as steam, internal combustion and other non-electrical motors for railway locomotives, road vehicles, aeroplanes and other machinery.
- Determines materials, equipment, piping, capacities, layout of plant or system and specification for manufacture.
- Undertakes research and advises on energy use, materials handling, thermodynamic processes, fluid mechanics, vehicles and environmental controls.
Daily tasks:
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor the performance and safety of electrical assemblies and systems.
- Ensures that manufacture, operation and maintenance comply with design specifications and contractual arrangements.
- Determines and specifies manufacturing methods of electrical systems.
- Supervises, controls and monitors the operation of electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems.
Daily tasks:
- Tests, diagnoses faults and undertakes repair of electronic equipment.
- Organises and establishes control systems to monitor performance and evaluate designs.
- Determines and specifies appropriate production and/or installation methods and quality and safety standards.
- Undertakes research and advises on all aspects of telecommunications equipment, radar, telemetry and remote control systems, data processing equipment, microwaves and other electronic equipment.
Daily tasks:
- Prepares specifications for materials and other components.
- Produces final design information for use in preparation of layouts, parts lists, etc..
- Arranges construction and testing of model or prototype and modifies design if necessary.
- Prepares working designs for steam, aero, turbine, marine and electrical engines, mechanical instruments, aircraft and missile structures, vehicle and ship structures, plant and machinery equipment, domestic electrical appliances, building systems and services, and electronic computing and telecommunications equipment.
- Assesses product requirements, including costs, manufacturing feasibility and market requirements.
Daily tasks:
- Designs, controls and constructs process plants to manufacture products.
- Undertakes research and develops processes to achieve physical and/or chemical change for oil, pharmaceutical, synthetic, plastic, food and other products.
- Liaises with materials buying, storing and controlling departments to ensure a steady flow of supplies.
- Advises management on and ensures effective implementation of new production methods, techniques and equipment.
- Investigates and eliminates potential hazards and bottlenecks in production.
- Devises and implements production control methods to monitor operational efficiency.
- Recommends optimum equipment and layout and prepares drawings and specifications.
- Studies existing and alternative production methods, regarding work flow, plant layout, types of machinery and cost.
Daily tasks:
- Provides technical consultancy services.
- Examines and advises on patent applications.
- Prepare sketches, drawings and specifications showing materials to be used, construction and finishing methods and other details.
- Devises and implements control systems to monitor operational efficiency and performance of system and materials.
- Designs new systems and equipment with regard to cost, market requirements and feasibility of manufacture.
- Establishes principles and techniques to improve the quality, durability and performance of materials such as textiles, glass, rubber, plastics, ceramics, metals and alloys.
- Researches into problem areas to advance basic knowledge, evaluate new theories and techniques and to solve specific problems.
Daily tasks:
- Writes reports for funding bids and planning authorities and acts as expert witness.
- Examines accident 'backspots' to improve road safety.
- Assesses schemes to manage traffic such as congestion charging and parking controls.
- Forecasts the impact on traffic and transport of new developments (e.g. shopping centre).
- Records, monitors and reports progress.
- Identifies defects in work and proposes corrections.
- Regularly inspects and monitors progress and quality of work, ensures legal requirements are met.
- Hires and may supervise site staff, establishes temporary site offices, takes delivery of materials.
- Plans work schedules for construction projects based on prior discussion with architects, surveyors etc..
- Assembles information for invoicing at the end of projects.
Daily tasks:
- Oversees effective implementation of adopted processes, schedules and procedures.
- Prepares plan of sequence of operations and completion dates for each phase of production or processing.
- Analyses plans, drawings, specifications and safety, quality, accuracy, reliability and contractual requirements.
- Prepares work flow charts for individual departments and compiles detailed instructions on processes, work methods and quality and safety standards for workers.
- Ensures accuracy of machines, jigs, fixtures, gauges and other manufacturing and testing equipment.
- Devises inspection, testing and evaluation methods for bought-in materials, components, semi-finished and finished products.
Daily tasks:
- Inspects construction materials and supervises work of contractors to ensure compliance with specifications and arranges remedial work as necessary.
- Sets out construction site, supervises excavations and marks out position of building work to be undertaken.
- Performs calculations and collects, records and interprets data.
- Sets up apparatus and equipment and undertakes field and laboratory tests of soil and work materials.
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