Carpenter

Your job

Your three-year training is completed in the carpentry workshop of the University of Münster. Together with our journeymen, you will learn to manufacture furniture, doors, and windows from wood and wood-based materials and carry out interior fittings. These are usually custom-made items.

Your vocational training at a glance

  • You will learn to process the material wood for the manufacture of wooden products as well as to screw, glue, and assemble individual wooden components.
  • Step by step, you will be introduced to the independent processing of orders and projects.
  • During your apprenticeship, you will develop a solid technical understanding that enables you to operate, maintain, and service our modern woodworking machines.
  • Creating sketches and designs for interior fittings and wooden furniture is also part of your apprenticeship, as is the subsequent manual implementation.
  • Manufacturing individual office furniture, for example, is part of your apprenticeship, as is the repair and restoration of furniture.

YouTube video about the apprenticeship as a carpenter [de]

A young woman smiles while applying wood stain with a brush and pot to several wooden slats.
© Uni Münster | Judith Kraft

What you should bring

  • In addition to a secondary school leaving certificate with qualification, you should have good grades in mathematics, physics and woodwork/technical subjects.
  • Interest in the material wood and manual skill show your suitability for the carpenter’s trade.
  • You have a good spatial imagination, technical understanding and observational accuracy.
  • Your careful and conscientious way of working makes it easier for you to carry out precise work steps.
  • You fit in our team if good manners as well as communication and team skills are important to you.

Training institutions

  • You complete your practical training in the carpentry workshop of the University of Münster.
  • The theoretical training takes place in several two- to three-week blocks per year at the Wilhelm-Emmanuel-von-Ketteler-Berufskolleg [de] in Münster.

Duration of training/possibility of shortening

The training lasts three years.

Examination/ competent chamber

The intermediate and final examinations are taken at the Handwerkskammer Münster [de].

 

Translated with AI assistance.