Carpenter (Fire Risk)

Paradigm Housing Group; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for skilled Fire Risk Carpenters to join their Compliance Team. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring fire safety across properties, where you'll be responsible for installing and maintaining fire doors, completing fire stopping installations, and performing general maintenance. With a focus on high-quality work and compliance with safety standards, you'll enjoy a supportive work environment with opportunities for career progression. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact while benefiting from a competitive salary and excellent perks.

Benefits

Company Van

Fuel Card

Competitive Salary

Excellent Benefits Package

Career Progression Opportunities

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications in carpentry and joinery are essential.
• Experience in housing repairs and maintenance is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Install and maintain fire doors to required safety standards.
• Perform general carpentry and fire risk assessment maintenance.

Skills

Carpentry

Fire Safety Compliance

Problem Solving

Time Management

Customer Service

Education

City and Guilds Part 1 and Part 2

NVQ2 in Carpentry and Joinery

Tools

Fire Door Installation Tools

General Carpentry Tools

Job description

Location: High Wycombe, Chesham + travel to properties across our portfolio

The Vacancy

Join Our Compliance Team – Be a Key Player in Fire Safety!

Are you a skilled carpenter with a passion for fire safety? Do you take pride in delivering high quality work that keeps people safe? Paradigm Housing Group is seeking two experienced Fire Risk Carpenters/Multi Skilled Technicians to join our Compliance Team on a full time, permanent basis.

Following internal career moves, we’re expanding our team to ensure complete compliance with fire safety standards across all our properties. This is your chance to make a real difference while enjoying excellent benefits, job stability, and the opportunity to work with a supportive, professional team.

The Role: What You'll Be Doing

You’ll be at the forefront of fire safety, carrying out essential tasks to ensure the safety and compliance of our properties. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Fire Door Installation and Maintenance – Installing and maintaining fire doors to certified FIRAS and BM Trada standards.
• Fire Stopping – Completing fire stopping installations to the highest standards.
• General FRA (Fire Risk Assessment) Maintenance – Performing general carpentry, joinery, and reactive maintenance. Certifying all work to the required standards with complete attention to detail.

As part of our Compliance Team, you’ll work both independently and collaboratively, delivering excellent service to tenants while taking ownership of your work and ensuring all tasks meet approved codes of practice and regulations.

Location: High Wycombe / Chesham (Office Bases), with travel across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, and surrounding regions.

What We're Looking For

To excel in this role, you’ll need:

• Qualifications: Relevant City and Guilds Part 1 and Part 2, NVQ2, or equivalent experience in carpentry and joinery (essential).
• Certifications: FIRAS or BM Trada Fire Door Maintenance, Installation, or Fire Stopping certifications (preferred but not essential).
• Experience: Proven experience in housing repairs, maintenance, and working within occupied homes.
• Expertise: A sound understanding of passive fire risk works, small building projects, and general maintenance (including carpentry, joinery, plastering, basic plumbing, and tiling).
• Attributes: Strong problem solving skills, excellent time management, and a commitment to high quality customer service.
• Other: A full (preferably clean) driving licence.

Why Join Paradigm Housing Group?

• Meaningful Work: Play a vital role in safeguarding lives through fire safety compliance.
• Career Progression: Enjoy opportunities for growth within a respected organisation.
• Benefits: Competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and a supportive work environment.
• Company Van & Fuel Card: We will provide you with a fully branded company van for business usage.

How to Apply

Submit your CV and a covering statement explaining how you meet our essential and desirable criteria. Your application will be reviewed against the person specification, so be sure to highlight your relevant skills and experience.

For the full job description and person specification, please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. If you have any questions about the role, email us at [e-mail] – we’d love to hear from you!

Act quickly – we reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date if a suitable candidate is identified.

About Us

We are Paradigm Housing Group.

We manage more than 17,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents.

We are a Best Companies two-star accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and commitment to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong.

Our Vision

We provide excellent services to customers.

And build new homes to help more people.

We make sure our homes are safe and sustainable.

And strive to do more by making the most of our resources.

Working For Us

Our Values

Safer Together: The safety of our customers, colleagues and ourselves is a priority in everything we do.

Driving Improvement: We seek to do things better and deliver value to our customers.

Working As One: We work collaboratively with others and also take personal responsibility for delivering outcomes for our customers, colleagues and stakeholders.

Acting Thoughtfully: We make ourselves aware of our customers’ and colleagues’ circumstances, and consider this thoughtfully and respectfully, and with attention to the impact on the environment, when taking action.

Being Clear: We will communicate in a clear and consistent manner so that our customers, colleagues and stakeholders understand the high standards that we work to.

Please note that customer facing roles may be subject to a DBS check.