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Carpenter and Joiner

Royal Engineer jobs

This is available as a full time Army role.

PLAY YOUR PART IN ARMY BUILDING PROJECTS

THE TUITION I RECEIVED ON THE CARPENTRY AND JOINER COURSE WAS EXCELLENT AND ALLOWED ME TO BECOME A CONFIDENT TRADESMAN.
Construction is a big part of the Army's work at home and abroad. Become a highly skilled Carpenter and Joiner, and you'll help with all kinds of building projects. Our first-class training will teach you to work from drawings, plan tasks, use workshop machinery and scaffolding, and prepare timber for use. You'll also learn to make joints, windows, doorframes, partitions, floors and roofing. With this experience plus qualifications, you'll have a great CV if you decide to leave. Until then, there's plenty to enjoy: sports, adventurous training and fantastic friends.
  • Carpenter and Joiner is a Trade role in the Royal Engineers. All the Royal Engineer soldier job roles are divided into 5 groups. When you apply to the Engineers, you will apply to the trade group rather than the specific trade. More about types of roles in the Royal Engineers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Plan carpentry and joinery tasks from sketches and working drawings
  • Learn the use and maintenance of workshop machinery
  • Prepare timber for use, manufacture joints, use adhesives, produce windows, door frames, door linings and internal joinery fitments
  • Carry out general construction work, first fix timber frames, second fix internal joinery fitments. Install partitions floors roofing, timber framed buildings, form work and shoring
  • Construct scaffolding, interpret scaffold terms, erect access scaffold and install access ladders

Training For The Role

Step 1
You'll start with your initial military training which will teach you how to be a soldier - this will cover everything from fieldcraft to how to handle a rifle. If you join as a Junior Soldier (under 17 years 5 months), you’ll do a 23-week basic military training course at Harrogate. If you join as a Regular Soldier (over 17 years 1 month), you’ll do the regular 14-week adult basic training.

Step 2
Then it’s off to the Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment near Camberley for nine weeks. Here, you learn military engineering skills such as knots and lashings, demolition, mine warfare and bridge building. The final stage of training is 21 weeks at the Royal School of Military Engineering in Chatham. Here, you learn how to use machinery and hand tools to make timber building materials.

Entry Requirements

Age: 16 years 6 months - 35 years 6 months
Qualifications: GCSE Grade A–D/9-3 in at least English Language, Maths and Science
Fitness:
  • Mid Thigh Pull 50kg
  • Medicine Ball Throw 3m
  • 2km run 11m
  • MSFT (beep test) level 7.5
More information about the fitness test

Qualifications You Could Get After Training

  • Level 2 and 3 Diplomas in Carpentry and Joinery (Military Engineering)
  • Level 2 Apprenticeship (NVQ Technical Certificate and Functional Skills) in Wood Occupations - Site Carpentry (City and Guilds)

Rank Progression

Learn about rank progression here.

Pay and Benefits

Earn £16,844 during training. When you have completed 26 week’s service or finished basic trade training – whichever comes first, your pay will rise to £21,425.

From the Field

“The tuition I received on the Carpentry and Joiner course was excellent and allowed me to become a confident tradesman. The course started with basic joints and built up to the construction of doors, partition walls and roofs. Following my time at 1RSME, I am now looking forward to putting the skills I have learnt to good use.”

HOW TO APPLY

Once your online application has been approved, you'll meet with a local recruiter. This is your chance to tell us about the role that you're interested in. When you go to the Assessment Centre,you'll take tests - the results will show whether you'd be suitable for this role, or should consider a different role.

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