Labourer, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor, Building Maintenance

Vacancy

Organisation:
Carmarthenshire County Council

Number of vacancies: 1

Contract type:
Permanent Full Time

Location:

Carmarthen

Grade:
Grade D

Salary: £25,949 (Including Real Living Wage Supplement) - £26,403

If part time and/or term time, the full time salary quoted (based on 37hrs) will be pro-rata'd accordingly

Hourly Rate : £13.45 (Including Real Living Wage Supplement) - £13.69

Contract Hours 37

Come and join our team Maintenance Technician
- Carpenter As part of our commitment to maintaining and improving our 9,300+ council homes, we are seeking self-motivated, positive, flexible, and experienced tradespeople with a can-do attitude to join our customer-focused Responsive Maintenance Team within the Housing Property and Strategic Projects Division. We strive for a high performing workforce who challenge the norm and who are empowered to provide outstanding services whilst living up to our core values.

Providing the best quality service is a key part of the role of our multi-skilled workforce, to ensure that jobs are efficiently completed within agreed timescales. These roles encompass our passion for teamwork and customer focused delivery across our entire trade function. You will be qualified to City and Guilds Level 2 or an NVQ equivalent with suitable works experience.

1 vacant post is available, with desirable experience and qualifications in Carpentry. Our teams operate from 2 depots, based in Trostre, Llanelli or Johnstown, Carmarthen . Carmarthenshire County Council staff work a standard 37 hour week, receive generous holidays, sick pay and pension, together with other employee benefits, as set out on this webpage: https://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/home/council-services/jobs-careers1/employee-benefits/. For an informal discussion please contact David Harries on

Job Description:

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Welsh language level - verbal Level 2 - You will need a basic level of conversational Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level.

Closing Date: 10/09/2026, 23:55

We’re proud to offer a range of benefits to our staff. Please note that the examples shown are just some of what may be available, and eligibility can vary depending on your role or contract type. For instance, certain benefits may not apply to casual workers.

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing additional annual leave
• Access to staff health and wellbeing support
• Personal development and career progression
• Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies

We adopt an ‘anonymous recruitment’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. We are committed to recruiting, retaining, and developing a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Sharing your equality monitoring data allows us to assess the impact our recruitment and employment policies and practices have and gives us the opportunity to improve them where possible.

Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care. Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if…