Maintenance Intermediate Apprenticeship Level 2

Are you carrying out carpentry at your work site? Do you want to qualify as a professional carpenter in a few years time? If the answers to these questions are ‘yes’, then this is the course for you. The Carpentry NVQ Level 2 is part of a training programme and will require you to be at college for only one day a week. The college’s experienced tutors will teach you what you need to know about site carpentry, first fix, second fix, roofing and carcassing. You’ll get the chance to work with specialists in the carpentry field and at the same time you will be developing your skills in the college’s innovative purpose-built Construction Department that looks and feels like a real construction site. It is unique for a college to have such a great facility and it has won the seal of approval from employers. You will be assessed on your practical skills as well as your knowledge of carpentry both in college and at work., Carpentry is not just all about your skills with wood, as part of this course you will also be undertaking additional skills that employers feel are vital to the profession. These additional qualifications in communication and numeracy will be delivered on your day in college and form part of the training framework.

You will need to wear suitable protective clothing and steel toe-capped boots or shoes.

To get a place on the programme, you will need to be working in a carpentry role on a construction site. You will need to attend an interview and selection process.

After completing the two-year course, you can progress on to the advanced training programme where you will be increasing your skills and knowledge to Level 3 standard. Successful completion of the advanced training programme could mean that you become a site foreman.