Your day-to-day duties could include:

• marking out and cutting wood, metal, glass and plastic to make units and fittings in a workshop
• estimating material quantities and costs, and preparing tenders and quotes for jobs
• preparing design plans
• measuring and setting out jobs on site
• paint spraying timber products

You may need to wear safety clothing and use safety equipment.

You could work at a client's business or in a workshop.

Your working environment may be physically demanding, cramped, you'll travel often, outdoors some of the time, dusty, noisy and at height.

With experience, you could move into a supervisory role, like chargehand or foreperson.

You could become a works manager, contract manager or shopfitting designer after further training, or set up your own shopfitting business.