Okanagan College offers Trades - Apprenticeship in Carpenter: Apprenticeship, a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme in Kelowna, Canada. The programme runs for 7 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,080 per total for local students.
This Red Seal apprenticeship provides the in-class technical training for registered carpentry apprentices who build, renovate, and repair residential and commercial wood-frame and mixed-material structures. Training runs across four levels of seven weeks each, delivered full-time on-campus at either the Kelowna Trades Complex or the Salmon Arm Trades Centre, with day-class or blended scheduling and multiple intakes through 2026 and 2027, each capped at 16 seats. Level 1 covers safe work practices, tool use, site layout, concrete formwork, and residential framing; Levels 2 through 4 build on this with rigging equipment, finishing materials, and building science as apprentices take on more complex framing, finishing, and structural work. To enrol, a student must already be registered as an apprentice with SkilledTradesBC and employed by a company with at least one qualified journeyperson carpenter supervising their work-based hours. Completing all four levels and the associated workplace hours leads toward Red Seal certification, the interprovincial standard recognized across Canada. The program is designed for working apprentices progressing through their technical training rather than as an introduction to carpentry for newcomers.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry is as a registered apprentice rather than through academic prerequisites: applicants must be registered as an apprentice with SkilledTradesBC and be working for an employer who employs at least one qualified journeyperson. Okanagan College describes registration as free and simple, and notes an unregistered applicant's employer can complete it online within a few minutes. The program page states no secondary-school course or grade requirement, no minimum age, and no IELTS, TOEFL or other standardized English-language score; academic and language prerequisites are not published for this apprenticeship level, since admission turns on apprenticeship and employment status rather than prior schooling.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC (a $30 CAD fee): Okanagan College sets no fixed closing date for most programmes in the 2026-27/2027-28 cycle. Applications for a Fall intake open at 8:30 a.m. on October's first business day of the preceding year, and for a Winter intake at 8:30 a.m. on February's first business day of the preceding year (exceptions apply); Practical Nursing's January intake opens at 9:00 a.m. on April's first business day of the preceding year. Most programmes accept applications until seats fill, though Nursing and Dental programmes set their own fixed or ranked deadlines on their own pages. International applicants also apply through EducationPlannerBC, paying a $100 CAD per-programme fee; the College publishes no institution-wide international closing date and directs applicants to each programme's own page. Admission is otherwise rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
