Leading Hand Carpenter | Commercial Fitouts & Make Good

AFS (Affordable Fitouts & Stripouts) is a Melbourne commercial fitout and stripout business based in Dandenong South. We work across office, retail, medical and industrial tenancies and have over 500 completed projects behind us.

The role

Full time and permanent, on the tools, working across commercial fitouts, stripouts, make good and small works on sites around Melbourne. On the bigger jobs you'll be leading a small crew and keeping the other trades moving.

Day to day:

• Stud walls, ceilings, partitions, doors and hardware, joinery install

• First and second fix fitout carpentry

• Make good and defit work. Patching, removals, getting tenancies back to base build and lease ready

• Working off plans and setting out

• Running a small crew, allocating the day's work and keeping it moving

• Keeping the site safe, tidy and compliant

• Talking to the project manager about progress, materials and anything likely to hold the job up

• Running demolition projects with an in-house team.

What we're looking for

• Cert III in Carpentry

• Solid commercial experience. Fitout, make good or shopfitting

• Able to lead a small crew and run a site without being chased

• Your own hand tools

• Full driver licence and a reliable vehicle to get between sites

• Construction Induction (White Card)

• EWP or scissor lift ticket is a bonus, not a deal breaker

Most of all we want someone who turns up, does the work properly and can be trusted on site on their own.

What we offer

• Consistent full time work year round, not project to project

• Variety across commercial sites all over Melbourne

• A PM who answers the phone and gives you a straight answer

• A path into site supervision if that's where you want to head