Job Description

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 19 January 2026

Closing Date: Sunday 14 December 2025

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: TD4 32,343.17

Working Pattern: 36 hours per week

Location: Bankhead Depot, Glenrothes

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a

Supporting Statement

which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site.

Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resume'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.

More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement .

Job Details

You will work within the Maintenance Section of Building Services, Mobile Working. To provide all aspects of Carpentry and Joinery work including maintenance, repairs and new build work, across the full range of domestic and non-domestic properties, including the larger and higher quality work in public buildings, ensuring that all such works are carried out in a manner that positively contributes to a high quality, responsive and cost effective service which meets Service and Customer expectations


The range of buildings our work is carried out on includes domestic housing, sheltered housing, care homes, offices, libraries, theatres and conference centres, sports complexes, leisure centres and swimming pools, community centres, schools, nurseries, fire stations, police stations and new build sites. These range from single storey buildings to multi storey and from standard construction methods to more bespoke and more complex constructed buildings.

The Person

We require the applicant to be time served in Carpentry and Joinery The applicant should have a City & Guild Certificate in Carpentry and Joinery and/or equivalent SVQ Level 3 attainment. The applicant should have the ability to carry out assigned work to standard and speed reasonably expected from a qualified craftsperson in specified trade. The applicant should have the ability to interpret instructions from job ticket or architectural drawings Building Services implement a respiratory protective equipment (RPE) policy which will require you to be clean shaven when required for face fit testing and working in areas where the wearing of a mask is require

Qualifications

City & Guilds Certificates in required trade and/or equivalent SVQ level 3 attainments.

Further Information

Role Profile

- when preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile

How We Work Matters

- Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace. See our How We Work Matters Framework behaviour framework for more information.

Employee Benefits

- Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services

Directorate Information

Council Department information

Alternative Formats

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Job information can be made available in alternative formats, to make a request please email: transactions.recruitment@fife.gov.uk

For further information, please contact: Andrew Muir, Drew.Muir@fife.gov.uk