Job type
TemporaryLocation
Market HarboroughWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Maintenance - PrisonsIndustry
ConstructionPay
£25.00 per hour – PAYE
A carpenter/joiner is required at HMP Gartree to join a busy maintenance team.
Your New Company:
We are recruiting an experienced carpenter/joiner to work at HMP Gartree, expected to be ongoing on a temporary basis for the next few months. This is a long-term temporary contract offering sociable, full-time hours and overtime. There is the possibility for a permanent role for the right candidate.
Your new role:
As a Carpenter/Joiner, you'll be involved in a wide range of tasks crucial to our daily operations. Your responsibilities will typically include:
- To carry out joinery work, examples of work include making stairs, doors, windows, signposts, formwork and other bespoke timber items.
- Measure and quote for works
- Order materials
- Maintain stock of building maintenance materials
- Fit out company vehicles for other departments
- To organise and plan your daily work with the supervisor, to record and submit all details of work carried out on relevant work orders
- To drive a vehicle if necessary in connection with work. Carry out daily vehicle checks and complete associated paperwork
- Responsible for joinery workshop – maintenance of machines, statutory inspections, housekeeping and cleanliness
- To participate in the Service’s out-of-hours emergency standby rota when the need arises and if necessary due to contractual or staff circumstances
- To complete statutory records as required
- To provide technical advice where required
- To undertake out of hours callout duties as per rota requirements.
Details:
Pay Frequency: Weekly
Working Days: Monday to Friday (overtime cover at weekends available)
Working Hours: 39 hours per week
What you'll need to succeed
You will need to be honest, hard-working, reliable, trustworthy and have great attention to detail, alongside being an excellent team player.
All applicants who are interested in the position must pass Prison Clearance, which can take up to 8 weeks or more. You will need a passport or photo driving licence to apply for clearance. Once passed, this is valid for 5 years and can be transferred to any other prisons of a similar category.
Qualifications
• City & Guilds, NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in joinery
• Current full UK driving licence
Behavioural competencies
- To act at all times in a manner designed to improve the service and thereby foster good customer and public relations
Technical competencies
- To be aware of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the duties which it places on an employee
- Emergence first aid at work (HSE)
- Environmental awareness Tool Box talk
- IOSH working safely
- Manual tool handling
- Ladder use
Additional
There may be a requirement for weekend work on a rota basis (1 in 3 or 4).
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
