Flair with hands and machines
If you enjoy working with your hands, have a creative flair but with a methodical approach, perhaps you should consider joinery and a woodmachinist as a career.
As a joiner and woodmachinist, you will spend your time in a workshop where you will work with machine and hand tools. You will design, manufacture and assemble wooden components according to specified needs.
The joiner and woodmachinist is involved in the final finishing of a building as the wooden components are usually the last items to be installed. The joiner and woodmachinist is responsible for manufacturing and assembling the woodwork in a building, such as doors, door and window frames, counters and built-in cupboards.
If you want to become a joiner and woodmachinist artisan, you need to register with an employer providing suitable training. This can be done with the help of your training provider.
Training consists of theoretical and practical work:
Theoretical training – at a technical FET College to obtain institutional competency-based modular training
Practical training – practical site experience with an employer
Duration of the course – two to four years depending on the experience of the candidate
To qualify you need to take a compulsory trade test set by the Department of Labour.