Carpenter - no experience required

Carpenter - no experience required

2026-10-17T08:31:08.78

Location: Bedford, Greater Manchester, GB, WN7 2, Any

Employer: Army

Application Deadline: 2026-11-14T08:31:08.78

Job Description

The Army

United Kingdom

£27,282 a year (after training)

Master your craft and learn to use it all over the world.

As a full-time soldier, entry-level Carpenter in the British Army, you'll:

• Plan carpentry and joinery tasks from sketches and apply them in field


• Learn to use and maintain workshop machinery


• Prepare timber for use, manufacture joints, use adhesives, produce windows, door frames and fitments


• Carry out general construction work including first-fix timber frames and second-fix joinery fitments


• Construct scaffolding, interpret scaffold terms and erect access scaffold and install ladders


• Install partitions, floors, roofing, timber-framed buildings, formwork and shoring


• Study for carpentry qualifications (including Level 2 and 3 Diploma in Carpentry and Joining (Military Engineering) and L2 apprenticeship)

To qualify, you must:

• Be between 16 years 6 months and 35 years 6 months


• Have a GCSE Grade A-C/9-5 or Scottish National 5 in Maths, English Language and one other subject


• Be able to pass a basic fitness test

Set yourself up for life

From the start of your training, you'll earn £27,282 a year which will go up as you progress in your career.

From your first day of training, you'll be gaining transferrable skills - skills that could set you up for life. You don't need to know how to do the job before you get here, because we'll give you all the training you need.

Step 1 is your initial military training teaching you how to be a soldier which will be basic military training if you're a Junior Soldier and adult basic training if you're a Regular Soldier. Step 2 will be 12 weeks at the Royal School of Military Engineering where you'll learn military engineering skills including demolition and bridge building. Step 3 will be 21 weeks of carpentry training including using machinery and hand tools to make timber building materials.

You'll also receive 30 days' annual leave every year (plus bank holidays and extra leave after operations), free medical and dental care, cheaper living costs, and free gym and sports facilities. And unless you're away on operations or training exercises, you'll normally work 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

You even get to travel the world, taking part in the Army's adventurous training, and spending dedicated time playing the sports you love.

Get skills, get qualified, get confident

You Belong Here.

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£27,282 a year (after training)
Master your craft and learn to use it all over the world.

As a full-time soldier, entry-level Carpenter in the British Army, you'll:

Plan carpentry and joinery tasks from sketches and apply them in field
Learn to use and maintain workshop machinery
Prepare timber for use, manufacture joints, use adhesives, produce windows, door frames and fitments
Carry out general construction work including first-fix timber frames and second-fix joinery fitments
Construct scaffolding, interpret scaffold terms and erect access scaffold and install ladders
Install partitions, floors, roofing, timber-framed buildings, formwork and shoring
Study for carpentry qualifications (including Level 2 and 3 Diploma in Carpentry and Joining (Military Engineering) and L2 apprenticeship)

To qualify, you must:
Be between 16 years 6 months and 35 years 6 months
Have a GCSE Grade A-C/9-5 or Scottish National 5 in Maths, English Language and one other subject
Be able to pass a basic fitness test.

Set yourself up for life.

From the start of your training, you'll earn £27,282 a year which will go up as you progress in your career.

From your first day of training, you'll be gaining transferrable skills - skills that could set you up for life. You don't need to know how to do the job before you get here, because we'll give you all the training you need.
Step 1 is your initial military training teaching you how to be a soldier which will be basic military training if you're a Junior Soldier and adult basic training if you're a Regular Soldier. Step 2 will be 12 weeks at the Royal School of Military Engineering where you'll learn military engineering skills including demolition and bridge building. Step 3 will be 21 weeks of carpentry training including using machinery and hand tools to make timber building materials.
You'll also receive 30 days' annual leave every year (plus bank holidays and extra leave after operations), free medical and dental care, cheaper living costs, and free gym and sports facilities. And unless you're away on operations or training exercises, you'll normally work 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

You'll even get to travel the world, taking part in the Army's adventurous training, and spending dedicated time playing the sports you love.
Get skills, get qualified, get confident.

You Belong Here.
JBRP1_UKTJ