Carpenter - no experience required

Army
📍 portsmouth, hampshire, United-Kingdom 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 11, 2026

Job Description

Carpenter - The Army

£26,334 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, youll:

  • 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 betw...

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Job Details

  • Location portsmouth, hampshire
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Other-General
  • Posted Date June 11, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 21, 2026