Carpenter (Fire Compartment Team) x5

Warwick University; Coventry; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Learning and development opportunities

Onsite childcare

Flexible working

Job summary

The University of Warwick is looking for a Carpenter (Fire Door/Fire Stopping Specialist) within the Building Fabric Fire Team to maintain fire doors and fire stopping systems across the campus.

You will undertake fire compartmentation works, support statutory compliance, and contribute to fire safety inspections and surveys. The role may involve bespoke joinery fabrication and ordering materials to support the University’s estate.

Qualifications

• Carpentry and joinery work focused on fire doors and fire stopping systems.
• Inspection, repair and replacement of passive fire protection across campus.

Responsibilities

• Undertake fire compartmentation works.
• Contribute to statutory compliance and fire safety inspections.
• Manufacture bespoke joinery and order materials for estate maintenance.

Job description

About the Role

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis (e.g. job share), despite the position being advertised as full-time.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking a minimum of 20 hours per week.

The Carpenter (Fire Door/Fire Stopping Specialist) role provides statutory, planned and reactive maintenance of passive fire protection systems across the University campus to agreed KPIs within the Estates Service Statement. Based within the Building Fabric Fire Team, the postholder delivers reactive and planned maintenance carpentry, carrying out skilled planned preventative maintenance and bespoke carpentry/joinery, primarily relating to the inspection, repair, remediation and replacement of fire doors and the installation and maintenance of fire stopping systems.

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description (link here).

About You

You will undertake fire compartmentation works, contribute to statutory compliance, supports fire safety inspections and surveys, and may include the manufacture of bespoke joinery, remedial building fabric works and the ordering of materials required to maintain the University's estate.

About the Department

The Maintenance Team within the University of Warwick Estates Department delivers planned, reactive and statutory maintenance across the University estate. The team ensures buildings and infrastructure are safe, compliant and fit for purpose, supporting the University's teaching, research and residential activities. The Fire Team is responsible for maintaining passive fire protection measures, including the inspection, repair and replacement of fire doors, fire stopping systems and associated fire safety compliance across the campus.

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, a generous holiday allowance plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

If you are considering relocating to the UK, read our Relocation Guide to find out more about what Warwick has to offer and what might be involved in the process.

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.