Apprentice Timber Manufacturer
Lawsons (Whetstone) Limited · Godalming · posted 16 July 2026
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- Learn how to make all types of bespoke timber products, including gates and fencing
- You will be required to work to the highest standards of quality and craftmanship
- Delivering these items to meet the timescales and project deadlines set
- Learn how to use woodworking machines, power tools, and hand tools safely and comply with Health & Safety regulations.
- Learn how to read and accurately interpret working drawings
- Maintain a clean workspace and manage general labouring duties
- Gain organisational skills for managing tasks and inventory
- Manage and organise stock effectively
- Collaborate within a team environment
- Work independently, using initiative to solve challenges
Your training
During your Standard Level 2 Furniture Manufacturing apprenticeship programme, you will receive training both off and on the job. You will be trained within the employers workplace and at WEBS Training in Nottingham on a block basis for a week at a time every 10 weeks.
You will learn the underpinning knowledge that runs alongside your practical elements of the training. WEBS Training aims to build on the skills you already have so you reach your full potential both personally and professionally.
Training will be provided in all areas of Furniture Manufacturing to ensure you can create practical and bespoke furniture using both traditional and modern techniques to produce aesthetically pleasing and fit-for-purpose products.
If you have already achieved GCSE maths and English at Grade 4/C or above or have an equivalent qualification, you will be exempt from undertaking Functional Skills. However, English and maths support will be provided for all apprentices throughout the length of their programme.
Where it leads
This role offers opportunities to advance to an Advanced Apprenticeship at Level 3, along with increased responsibilities.
About Lawsons (Whetstone) Limited
Established in 1921, the Lawsons Group is now the largest independent Timber, Building Materials & Fencing merchant in London and the South East, with branches located from Lincolnshire to the South Coast. With over 740 employees and a turnover in excess of £175 million, the Group includes 19 Lawsons branches and 13 branches of AVS Fencing & Landscaping Supplies, in addition to Basingstoke Building Supplies, Briants of Risborough, The Landscape Centre, Oxford Fencing Supplies and Witham Timber. With continued expansion & acquisitions, our business is continuing to grow across the United Kingdom.
Things to consider
Must be happy to attend block training in Nottingham.
Skills they're looking for
Entry requirements
- GCSE English (grade C/4) — desired
- GCSE Math (grade C/4) — desired
Where you'll work
- Unit 1, A V S Trading Park, Chapel Lane, Milford, Godalming, GU8 5HE
- Oxford Fencing, Kingston Business Park Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon, OX13 5AS
- AVS Lewes Southdown Works, Laughton Road Ringmer, Lewes, BN8 5PN
- AVS Wokingham Warren Farm, Forest Road, Wokingham, RG40 5QY
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