Are you ready to deliver high-quality carpentry services that make a real impact?
We’re looking for a Carpenter to join our Home and Community Maintenance team at Freebridge Community Housing. In this hands-on role, you’ll carry out essential repairs and maintenance across our housing stock, using your trade expertise to ensure homes are safe, well-maintained, and finished to the highest standards.
You’ll work as part of our in-house team, diagnosing issues, planning and completing works, and keeping residents informed throughout. This is a great opportunity to use your carpentry skills in a role that values craftsmanship, teamwork, and putting customers first.
Type and term of contract: Full-time, Permanent
About Freebridge Community Housing:
Our Freebridge Community Housing goal is to provide affordable, safe, and quality homes for current and future generations, for those who need a place to call home. Freebridge was set up in 2006, to receive the transfer of the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk’s housing stock. We now have over 7500 properties across west and north Norfolk, in addition to building new homes for social and affordable rent, and to support those who want to move into shared home ownership. We’ve had numerous achievements, including delivering our tenants' promises and bringing homes to the Decent Homes Standard, affording our customers a much better quality of living. At Freebridge, we live by our values: Belong, Own It, Think Customer, One Team One Purpose, and Be the Change.
What you’ll be doing:
- Maintenance and/or construction tasks: Undertake maintenance and/or construction tasks as in accordance with the Freebridge Standard and industry best practice to achieve great customer satisfaction.
- Communication and Updates: Explain trade tasks and update colleagues and customers, including timescales, for the works.
- Health & Safety Compliance: Work in a manner to ensure your own and other colleague’s safety, our customers safety and the safety of the public, following all internal guidance and requirements and industry best practice.
- End-to-End Maintenance Activities: Undertake maintenance activities from pre inspection, through specification and materials ordering, through work completions and post inspection and administrative completion to ensure that the paper or electronic completion of works is carried out in a timely manner.
- Team Collaboration: Work as part of the Property Services team to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the whole service. This will include working as part of any of the delivery teams and working alone or with other colleagues to undertake and complete maintenance and/or building works as required.
- Equipment Care & Maintenance: Be responsible for the inspection, checking and as appropriate maintenance of Freebridge and hired equipment, including but not limited to, vehicles, hand tools, power tools, ICT equipment, phones, uniforms, access equipment, PPE etc. This will include the regular cleaning, tidying and recorded keeping of such in accordance with Freebridge requirements.
- Material Management: Be responsible for ordering, using, storing and the record keeping of materials supplied via the stores in line with the procedures, collected from merchants or delivered to site, ensuring that these are utilised effectively and efficient and that waste is minimised and that all materials can be always accounted for accurately.
- Record Keeping: Ensure the complete and accurate record of all activities is maintained at all times in accordance Freebridge requirements.
- Vehicle & Uniform Standards: Responsibility of undertaking vehicle inspections when required and ensuring the vehicle and uniform are clean, tidy and positively represent the Freebridge brand.
What we’re looking for:
- City & Guilds (or other recognised awarding body) trade qualification in an engineering trade
- 3 yrs. experience of engineering trade in a maintenance environment
- Advanced craft in trade skill
- Experience of and current training in health & safety and ladders
- Ability to use ICT mobile systems
- Specific qualifications as required by trade
- Commitment to excellent customer service.
What’s in it for you?
At Freebridge, we’re appreciative of our team and you can enjoy the following benefits from joining us, among many more:
- Generous Holiday Leave: Enjoy 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service
- Exclusive Employee Discounts: Access amazing deals through our Reward Gateway.
- Comprehensive Leave Policies: Enjoy 6 months full pay for maternity leave and 2 weeks full pay for paternity leave
- Health and Wellbeing Support: Access physio and counselling services, along with an employee assistance programme.
- Charitable Leave: One day per year to volunteer for a cause you care about.
- Discounted Gym Membership: Stay fit with discounted membership at Alive Leisure.
- Pension Scheme: A company contributory pension scheme with generous employer contributions
Diversity & Inclusion:
Diversity is key to our values and culture. We create a workplace where every voice is heard and respected, embracing diverse perspectives to drive innovation. Our inclusive environment empowers colleagues, ensuring equal opportunities for all. We don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. We’re happy to accommodate reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to enable you to perform your best. As part of this commitment, we also offer accessibility tours for candidates to help ensure an inclusive and welcoming experience from the outset.
Closing Date: Tuesday 26th August 2025.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference to lives across West and North Norfolk.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £34,880.00 per year
Work Location: On the road
Reference ID: RPO03566
