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Apprenticeships in Carpentry and Joinery

We offer the Architectural Joiner Level 2 and Level 3 Apprenticeship, and the Site Carpenter Level 2 and Level 3 Apprenticeship.

A rewarding, practical and hands-on career

As a Carpenter and Joiner, you will work with building materials to create and install building components. You could work in either the new build or refurbishment sector, working to bring life back into old properties or create new homes.

Through our apprenticeships you can train to go down two different routes: either training to become a site carpenter, installing building components; or an architectural joiner, producing building components.

Train for a practical career on a construction site or in a workshop

As a Carpenter and Joiner apprentice you will learn how to create and install building components.

This typically involves shaping and cutting materials, installing finished materials like partitions, doors, staircases, window frames, moldings, timber floor coverings, and erecting structural components such as floor joists and roofs.

As you develop your practical skills, you will also learn how to work safely, understanding the key principles of health and safety required for the job.

You will be taught how to effectively work in a team, concisely communicate, and plan to undertake work productively, interpreting information from drawings and specifications.

Once trained, you will have the skills and knowledge to work in either a workshop or on a construction site.

Meet our Apprentices: Julian | Architectural Joiner | Evolution Sport

Meet our Apprentices: Julian | Architectural Joiner | Evolution Sport

Julian works as a joiner for Evolution Sport, he is part of the production team, that produce hospitality unit suites from scratch.

Tell us about your role at Evolution Sport?

"All the units that we make are custom made. I help build all the units, bars, seating areas and the walls from scratch, we just have the raw materials. Once I have built the product it then has to be packed up into a box which is custom made and then shipped to the country the team is racing in."

What do you enjoy most about working at Evolution Sport?

“It’s a nice environment to be in and I am doing work that you have never seen before, you are seeing something that is being put together and it’s exciting to see how things turn out. It’s a completely different outlook on what joinery can be."

Apprenticeship Carpentry & Joinery courses

Carpentry & Joinery - Architectural Joiner Level 2 Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship P03320

Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about site carpentry is also available....

1st Aug 2025 - 31st Jul 2030

Carpentry & Joinery

Bicester Construction Skills Centre

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Carpentry & Joinery - Architectural Joiner Level 3 Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship P03324

Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about site carpentry is also available...

1st Aug 2025 - 31st Jul 2030

Carpentry & Joinery

Bicester Construction Skills Centre

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Carpentry & Joinery - Site Carpenter Level 2 Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship P03312

Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about architectural joinery is also available....

1st Aug 2025 - 31st Jul 2030

Various

Carpentry & Joinery

Bicester Construction Skills Centre

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Carpentry & Joinery - Site Carpenter Level 3 Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship P03316

Carpentry and Joinery apprentices typically either work on a construction site as a Site Carpenter or in a workshop as an Architectural Joiner. Separate information about architectural joinery is also available....

6th Nov 2025 - 26th Feb 2027

Thursday - 09:00 - 16:00

Carpentry & Joinery

Bicester Construction Skills Centre

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