Carpenter
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The Vacancy
🔨 Join Our Team as a Skilled Carpenter! 🔨
Location: Cornwall Department: Ocean Property Services
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Are you a talented Carpenter looking to make a real difference in your community? Do you take pride in your craftsmanship and want to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
🌟 Why Ocean Housing?
At Ocean Housing, we’re more than just a housing provider. We are proud to maintain and improve homes across Cornwall, and we’re looking for a skilled Carpenter to help us deliver high-quality repairs and improvements to our properties.
🛠️ What You’ll Be Doing:
- Carrying out 1st and 2nd fix carpentry, repairs, and installations to a high standard.
- Working on a variety of tasks including kitchens, doors, flooring, fencing, roofing, and more.
- Delivering first-time fixes and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Provide excellent customer service and communicate effectively with tenants and colleagues.
- Supporting and contributing to a positive team culture.
- Maintain your van stock and ensure tools and equipment are safe and ready to go.
- Participating in our emergency call-out rota
✅ What We’re Looking For:
- Relevant NVQ Level 2 qualification or equivalent evidenced experience
- A clean, current driving licence.
- A team player with great communication and customer service skills.
- Someone who takes pride in their work and finishes jobs to a high standard.
💡 Desirable Extras:
- Relevant NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent
- Experience working in social housing or with mobile repairs software
🎁 What You’ll Get:
- A supportive and inclusive work environment.
- Opportunities for training and development.
- The chance to make a real impact in people’s lives.
For more information about the role please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification
🎁 What We Offer
We believe in rewarding our team with a comprehensive benefits package that supports your wellbeing and work-life balance:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays
- Occupational Sick Pay (3 months full pay, 3 months half pay)
- 4% employer pension contribution + death in service benefit
- Health Cash Plan (includes dental & optical cover)
- Flu jab & wellbeing initiatives
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Family-friendly policies
- Agile working options – work from the office, home, or local area
If you’re passionate about housing, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to be part of a forward-thinking organisation, we’d love to hear from you!
📅 Key Dates
- Closing date for applications: Sunday, 27th July 2025 (Midnight)
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're ready to bring your skills to a company that values quality, community, and teamwork — apply today and help us shape homes and futures across Cornwall.
We may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications—so apply soon!
The Company
Ocean Housing Ltd is a not for profit, charitable registered provider of social and affordable housing, with a stock of over 4,700 properties throughout Cornwall. We are part of the Cornwall Homechoice ‘Choice Based Lettings’ scheme.
At Ocean we believe affordable housing is not just about the buildings, but about the people who turn them into homes. We provide a wide range of services to our residents, helping them to make the most of their homes and the communities they live in.
Mission Statement
“To be an innovative provider of quality homes and services, with residents and staff at the heart of Ocean, and Ocean at the heart of the community.”
At Ocean our vision is to be the employer of choice for Cornwall. We want to create a work environment where everyone feels like they belong, can bring their best, authentic selves to work every day and are provided with the support they need to do a great job.
Our purpose is to create a modern, dynamic and agile work environment, fit for the 21st Century and one of which all of our colleagues feel included and proud to be a part of. An environment which enables colleagues to provide quality, affordable homes and services for the people of Cornwall. We believe work is what you do, not where you go and therefore colleagues deliver their work where it best suits the need, whether that be in the office, home or around a local area or site using local facilities. Colleagues are agile and work or have meetings in any place to suit the need and task.
Benefits
Generous Holiday Entitlement
Healthcare Benefits
Occupational Sick Pay Scheme
Pension which includes Death in Service Benefit
Values
Gallery
2022 Award
Winner
Best Place to Work at Cornwall Business Awards 2022
Sponsored by the Skills Hub
“This is a really challenging sector to work in and Ocean Housing Group have really gone above and beyond to support their workforce. They really show strong leadership from above in putting their employees first and the level of engagement they get from everyone in their teams is commendable, with really high number of team members taking part in surveys, consultancy and feedback. The Ocean Housing Group have also invested in the continual improvement of their staff, services and benefits to ensure that staff consistently feel invested in and valued – Well Done!”
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