Job Ref: KO2004936
Pay Rate: 7.55
Hour Per Week: 37.5
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday 8.30 - 17.00 (1 hour lunch)
Closing Date: 2 June 2025
Job Description:
Start your career in furniture making with one of two creative, hands-on roles at Inn Gear!
Do you love practical work? Ever thought about how the beautiful furniture in hotels, restaurants, and pubs is made? This is your chance to join Inn Gear, a brilliant Salisbury-based company designing and building bespoke furniture for hospitality venues across the UK.
We’re looking for motivated, hands-on people to join the team as Furniture Maker Apprentices.
We have two routes to choose from:
1. Woodwork team
You’ll learn how to create high-quality furniture from scratch, develop your woodworking skills, and be part of bringing stylish spaces to life.
What you’ll be doing:
Working alongside experienced craftspeople, you’ll gain skills in:
- Selecting the right materials (mainly wood and boards) for different types of furniture
- Using a wide range of tools, machinery, and techniques to cut, shape and assemble furniture
- Reading and interpreting technical drawings and plans
- Preparing and finishing furniture with sanding, painting, or varnishing
- Keeping your workspace clean and safe
- Problem-solving and working to deadlines to complete bespoke items for clients
2. Upholstery team
Suiting someone with creative flair and interest in fashion and fabrics, you work alongside an experienced team to bring each piece of furniture to life, giving it comfort, style and personality.
What you’ll be doing:
Working alongside experienced craftspeople, you’ll gain skills in:
- Selecting and preparing fabrics, foams, and other materials
Using traditional and modern techniques to upholster furniture
Cutting, sewing, and fixing covers for seats, sofas, stools and more
Fitting webbing, springs and padding to frames
Finishing each item to a high standard, ready for delivery to clients
About Inn Gear
Inn Gear is a well-established name in the hospitality interiors world. Known for their high standards, friendly team, and creative flair, they supply stunning furniture and fittings to some of the UK’s most iconic venues. As an apprentice here, you’ll get more than just a job – you’ll get proper mentoring, a supportive team, and real career prospects.
Person Specification:
Whether you’re fresh out of school or looking to switch your career path, this is a fantastic entry-level opportunity to build a career in a specialist industry.
What we’re looking for:
- People that enjoy practical, hands-on tasks
- Have good attention to detail
- Reliable
- Wanting to listen and learn
- Team player
- Friendly
This job is paid at Apprenticeship Minimum Wage. This is to give you the time and space to learn the trade properly. After your apprenticeship you will be a competent furniture maker/upholsterer able to earn a good wage.
Training and support:
What you’ll get:
- A paid job while you learn. Inn Gear will pay you to work and study so you can get qualifications and practice using tools and techniques to help you at work
- A strong foundation for a future career hopefully with Inn Gear
- Support from Supplytrain, to make sure you stay on track at work and in learning to succeed
Benefits:
- Four-weekly pay
- 5.6 weeks paid leave per year
- Mentoring support from Supplytrain to check in regularly and be available for any issues or queries that are affecting your work or training
- Automatic enrolment into company pension scheme, if eligible
Next steps
Apply below. In your cover letter please tell us which pathway (woodwork or upholstery/either) you wish to work in.
At Supplytrain we’ll call you and check it’s the type of opportunity you’re after. A selection of candidates will be invited to spend half a day at Inn Gear in June to see what it’s like to work in the building and ask questions.
We’ll select apprentices after this day for an August start.
