Reactive Response Craft JoinerCarpentry generalist

Join Our Team: Craft Operative Joiner/Carpentry generalist opportunityNavigate your future and lock in your career as we keep our canals open and alive. As a Craft Operative in our Reactive Response Team you will play a vital role in caring for our network responding to incidents as they happen and ensuring our waterways remain safe and accessible for everyone. They act fast think on their feet and take real pride in protecting the places people is a mixedskills role suited to someone with experience in one or more trades (e.g. carpentry metal fabrication bricklaying or stonemasonry). Youll work flexibly responding to emergencies as they occur across our Hours & TravelThe post holders will work an annualized hours system (averaging 37 hours) primarily Monday to Friday with overtime and occasional weekend work as needed to respond to emergencies and carry out repairs that help keep our waterways open for based at Hatton Locks this role involves regular travel across the West Midlands. You will travel from home in a company van report directly to site to complete the days tasks and return home at the end of the working extends:North to Leek (Caldon Canal Derbyshire)West into Wales (Montgomery Canal)East to Rugby (Oxford Canal)South to StratforduponAvon (Stratford Canal/River Avon)Flexibility is essential as emergency callouts and rapidly changing priorities are a core part of the teams OverviewAs a Craft Operative you will help improve maintain and preserve our historic network. This includes refurbishing and repairing canal infrastructure such as locks bridges aqueducts towpaths and associated equipment while consistently working to high safety environmental and heritage role sits within our reactive response team and involves planned work alongside emergency call-outs. As priorities can change at short notice a flexible and adaptable approach is ResponsibilitiesCarry out outdoor maintenance and repair works to maximize network availability often involving heritagesensitive bricklaying or other trade skills to support manufacture and refurbishment work to agreed standards and operate machinery plant tools and equipment and support inhouse maintenance where personal equipment workshop tools and workspace to required promptly to customer queries and urgent equipment materials and PPE are appropriate for each with measuring locks and lock gates learning heritage craft skills alongside specialist and interpret technical drawings to inform with and supervise volunteers to support sustainable maintenance regionally and flexibly to meet nationally prioritized work YouYou must bring strong operative skills and be confident applying your trade knowledge in unique environments. While additional skills can be learned on the job competence in at least one relevant discipline is essential to aid your colleagues. Whether you come from a building or Joiner/Carpentry generalist background your experience and enthusiasm will help you thrive in this & QualificationsTrade relevant apprenticeship or equivalent qualification (e.g. City & Guilds or NVQ Level 2).Experience operating plant/equipment (e.g. chainsaws power tools forklift trucks).Experience in a relevant discipline such as carpentry metal fabrication bricklaying or to read and interpret technical UK driving license (essential for regional response travel).Contact & ApplicationIf you have any questions feel free to reach out to us at We encourage early applications as we may close the vacancy once we receive enough suitable We OfferWe offer a starting salary of28154 with opportunities for progression. Enjoy a competitive pension scheme increasing holiday entitlement and a range of employee benefits. For a full breakdown of our benefits check out our brochure here: EVP - 1(