Carpenter

Company description:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

Job description:

Northern Health are seeking applications from motivated and suitably experienced Carpenter to join the Engineering department.

Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute, mental health, specialist, community and home-based services in Melbourne's rapidly growing outer north.

Services are provided through our six main campuses:

Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre, Craigieburn and Mernda Community Hospitals Centres and Kilmore District Hospital. In addition, Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Jacana, Preston, Mill Park, Mernda and Coburg.

About the Role:

The role provides carpentry services in line with the Northern Health total asset management guidelines, ensuring compliance with statutory, legislative and code requirements including satisfying Northern Health strategic and business objectives.

General handyperson duties are involved (building maintenance), including On-call and rotation requirement across Northern Health facilities.

Maintenance & Engineering Services is committed to the highest standard of Customer Relations principles. Team members will serve as role models by practicing exemplary behaviours when working with patients, visitors and fellow staff members. The Hospital and Clinic operations requires quicker than normal response to system and equipment failures.

The hours worked often require emergency response, frequently without immediate direct assistance from supervisor.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Qualified Carpenter and joiner (Cert III)
• Carpenter Journey Worker certification or ability to certify equivalency of required hours for Carpenter Journey Worker.
• Demonstrated ability to use hand and power tools.
• Knowledge of all methods, procedures, practices and tools of the Carpenter trade.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, drawings/sketches, schematics, and written specifications as they pertain to the Carpentry Trade. Must also have a general understanding of how they pertain to all other trade's diagrams.

Next Steps . . .

If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description. Alternatively, you can contact Tharaka Wijayaratne, Operations Manager on Tharaka.Wijayaratne@nh.org.au

Applications close Sunday 13 September 2026.

Shortlisting will commence immediately for this vacancy. If an appropriate candidate is sourced, the advertising may close early, thus we advise you to apply right away.

We offer:

We offer a range of benefits to support and reward staff both personally and professionally, which includes:

• Health and Wellbeing programs, including our ‘Thrive' program
• Flexibility in the workplace and extra leave options and support
• An inclusive and culturally safe space
• State of the art facilities and campus partnerships
• A commitment to ongoing professional development through our ‘Learning Labs'
• Access to salary packaging, EAP and our online library

For a glimpse of life at NH, click here.

Work with us! Northern Health is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as well as applicants who are LGBTIQ+, who have different abilities, or are from culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds are encouraged.

All employees of Northern Health must comply with the health service's Staff Health / Workforce Immunisation procedure (as amended from time to time) together with any relevant State Government and Departmental directives. This requires all employees to be vaccinated for various diseases such as, but not limited to influenza.