Estates Carpenter

**Are you a skilled Carpenter with experience in repairs and maintenance? Do you want to make a difference in people's lives by delivering high-quality services and maintaining excellent homes? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our Pobl Estates & Environment Team based in Newport as an Estates Carpenter.**

**What are the pay and benefits?**
- The salary for this role is £31,781 for a 40 hour full time permanent position
- 26 days holiday entitlement plus Bank holidays , rising to 30 days with length of service
- Working days are predominately Monday to Friday days. With a range of start times between 730 & 8am. On Fridays we finish at 1530.
- Work Van to use as part of the role. This is usually kept on site in our Newport depot, however we are happy to discuss this in more detail at interview if required to get to and from work.
- Uniform and equipment provided
- Pension scheme
- Sick Pay
- Colleague Referral Scheme (£250 per referral)
- Time for Talking - a free counselling service
- Health Cash Plan
- Savings Scheme
- Cycle to work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
- Eyecare plan
- Give as You Earn charity donation scheme
- Gym and shopping discounts
- Pobl socks and Pobl Bobl hats

**What is great about the role?**

As an Estates Carpenter, you will be responsible for carrying out a range of repairs and maintenance works on Pobl homes, communal facilities, and commercial premises. Your craftsmanship will contribute to delivering exceptional services and high-quality homes. The role will require you to work individually and as part of a larger estates team, undertaking pre-painting repairs and core carpentry work. You will also be involved in repairing and installing various wooden structures, including skirting, stairs, window frames, door frames, doors, facia/soffits, and porches. Painting of wooden items will also be part of your responsibilities.

Our Pobl Estates & Environment Team in Newport cover areas between Chepstow, Gwent Valleys and parts of Cardiff.

**What skills and experience do you need?**

**Experience**: Proven practical experience in Carpentry, working in a team.

**Skills & Abilities**: Good practical and creative skills, excellent written and oral communication, ability to work carefully, and handle both mental and physical effort.

**Knowledge and Understanding**: Good understanding of Health and Safety and ability to pay attention to detail.

**Education and Training**: City and Guilds or equivalent recognised qualification in Carpentry (NVQ) and a full clean driving license.

Our values are positive, connected and considerate. At Pobl, you will share these values and be motivated to work in an environment that is driven by them.

**FREDIE**

**How do you apply?**

**Who are Pobl Group?**

Pobl Group provide high quality housing that is affordable in communities that are safe, attractive and supported to thrive. We manage over 16,000 homes and will be investing £100 million, creating 3000 new homes in Wales over the next 5 years. Working closely with many partner organisations to achieve much more than we could alone, we listen to our customers to deliver innovative local services that make a difference.

SJR

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £31,781.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: On the road

Reference ID: 508345