Learn a trade that lasts.

Send a short note and a photo of something you have made — a tool, a piece of furniture, anything.

• Woodmaker · Full-time — Carving and finishing kitchen tools by hand and with light machinery.
• Production & finishing · Full-time — Sanding, oiling, curing and quality control of daily batches.
• Warehouse & packing · Full-time — Packing wholesale orders, carton building and dispatch.
• Trade sales — DACH & Benelux · Full-time — Own retailer and hospitality accounts, travel to fairs.
• Apprentice maker · 2-year paid — Learn the trade beside our senior carvers, no experience needed.

• Full-time contracts with the statutory benefits, not piece-rate work.
• Real tools, real timber and time to learn — no production-line quotas in the first year.
• A paid apprenticeship with a certificate at the end.
• Product allowance: a piece from the range every quarter.
• Seasonal work for students during summer and the pre-Christmas run.

Email hello@hrast.example with the role in the subject line, a paragraph about yourself and, if you have them, photos of your work. No CV format is required.

We read every message ourselves and reply within a week, including a no. If nothing fits right now, say so and we will write when a bench opens.

Two years, paid from day one, starting each March and September. You begin with sharpening, sanding and oiling, move to carving in the second half of year one, and finish able to take a log to a finished spoon on your own.