JOB SEEKERS
Do you want a career that is exciting, rewarding and challenging?
Do you enjoy working on computers? Have you thought about a traineeship in estimating and detailing or office administration?
Do you enjoy working outdoors? We have training available for a career in customer service, manufacturing or warehousing.
There are many career opportunities available within the Timber Industry offering you an exciting future. Through study, hard work and dedication, your career can progress to levels you may not have thought imaginable – all while getting paid to learn!
Traineeships – Apprenticeships – Career Pathways
Timber Manufactured Products - Traineeship
Learn about manufacturing timber products including roof trusses, pre-nail wall frames, engineered timber products and timber componentry for furniture and other timber based products.
This traineeship can lead to a role as a:
- Estimator and Detailer
- Frame & Truss Designer
- Site Supervisor
- Component Manufacturer
- Jigsetter
- Leading Hand
- Furniture Production
Timber Merchandising - Traineeship
Suitable for people already working in the timber retail/sales (or those wanting to enter this field), you will be trained in all areas of handling, storage, racking, grading and sales of timber and timber products.
This traineeship can lead to a role as:
- Internal Sales
- Dispatch Coordinator
- Customer Service Manager
- Sales Representative
- Yard Manager
- Leading Hand
Floor Covering & Finishing - Apprenticeship
The earning capacity of this trade once qualified is exceptional due to being a skills shortage area. Lasting three and a half years (can be earlier if you work and study hard as the qualification is competency based), an apprentice will specialize in either Carpet & Vinyl, Timber & Cork, Vinyl or Carpet laying. This apprenticeship can be completed full time or as a School Based Apprenticeship.
Great potential to own your own business!
Warehousing & Distribution - Traineeship
Focusing on warehousing duties including stock location, maintenance and replenishment, receipting, packaging, order checking, picking and dispatch.
This traineeship can lead to a role as a:
- Warehousing Manager
- Logistics Manager
- Dispatch Coordinator
Wood Machining – Apprenticeship
Furnishing
Focus on areas including the use of furniture sector hand and power tools, assembling furniture components, hand made timber joinery and setup, operate and maintain basic static machines. You will be trained to setup, operate and maintain complex machinery used for sawing, drilling, joinery, planing, finishing routing and shaping.
Sawmilling & Processing
Work in an environment using machines such as planers, moulders and saws to cut, plane, shape and sand wood to specifications. Gain knowledge about selecting and fitting knives, cutter heads on drums, how to sharpen and grind cutters and blades, balance cutter heads and program and control CAD and CNC machines.
This apprenticeship can lead to a role as a:
- Wood Machinist
- Leading Hand
- Manufacturing Operator
- Saw Doctor
- Sawmill Owner
Office (Business) Administration - Traineeship
Giving you the skills needed to operate within a business environment, this traineeship is for you if your role involves administration, reception, secretarial or basic payroll duties.
This traineeship can lead to a role as a:
- Receptionist
- Financial Officer
- Personal Assistant
- Payroll Clerk
Forest Growing Management - Traineeship
Through this traineeship you will be trained to prepare landsite for a forest, establish it, manage its growth and protection and manage the nurseries use for the production of trees for the forest.
Harvesting - Traineeship
This traineeship includes felling and de-limbing, ‘snigging’, off-road transporting of the cut logs to a loading point, sorting and loading the logs onto a transport vehicle, and hauling the logs to the mill or primary processing plant.
Wood Panel Products - Traineeship
Duties of this traineeship include the manufacturing of ply, veneer and constituted wood fibre board as well as finishing, sorting and grading the materials and products.
We can also offer the following apprenticeships:
- Bricklaying
- Cabinet Making
- Carpentry
- Roof Tiling
- Glazing
- Metal Fabrication
- Roof Plumbing
- Shopfitting
- Furniture Finishing
- Upholstery
- Horticulture
- Green Keeping
- Landscaping
- Nursery
- Parks & Gardens
And the following Traineeships:
- Horticulture
- Information Technology
- Retail (Hardware Operations)
- Retail