Job Role : Carpenter Lockmsith
Location: HMP Bedford
Salary: £30,941.44
Contract: Full time/Perm
Are you a quality-driven Carpenter or Joiner from a maintenance or construction background who is looking for a role that you can really get your saw teeth stuck into? Could you apply your skills and expertise in an ever-changing environment where a mixture of reactive and planned maintenance means you need to think on your feet?
If you're ready for your new challenge, quick to learn, enthusiastic and willing to share your skills and experience and contribute, we want to hear from you.
We provide critical and time-bound services to the Ministry of Justice and are looking for facilities management professionals that can make a difference to the sites and the people we are responsible for.
We're five years young and growing in the provision of our on site solutions to the prison service and want applicants with:
A formal qualification such as NVQ or City and Guilds of least at level 2, or considerable work-based experience with knowledge of current best practices and material, tool, and equipment safety standards
Knowledge of routine preventative maintenance and an ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities when reactive maintenance is required
An enjoyment for team and collaborative working
An honest, reliable, and robust character
If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.
About Us:
We are Gov Facility Services Ltd, a non-profit company owned entirely by the Ministry of Justice, delivering safe, high quality and value driven facilities services to 48 prisons over the South and East of the UK with over 1,300 staff. It's a great time to get involved and help shape the future of the company - and forge a great career at the same time.
Explore a varied and rewarding career at GFSL
Welcome to careers at Gov Facilities Services Limited (GFSL). Joining us is your chance to help ensure prisons are secure and safe for prisoners and prison staff alike, and to play your part in helping prisoners reintegrate into society.
You will find a strong focus on safety, a supportive, inclusive workplace, a competitive benefits package, and real opportunity to build your skills and progress. Explore facilities careers where you can make difference.
Pride In People
We're passionate about promoting greater diversity and creating a workplace and culture where all of our employees have a voice that is heard, feel a sense of belonging and are empowered to be their true selves.
We recognise the value that every single employee brings to the organisation. Everyone's needs at work are different and we are committed to doing our best to satisfy these differences whilst ensuring consistency and fairness for all. We promise to champion diversity and inclusion with ongoing learning and training, as well as career progression opportunities for everyone.
GFSL has been notified by its shareholder (MOJ) that the provision of FM services will in future be delivered by the private sector. This means that following a successful procurement process, GFSL's services will transfer to a private sector provider/providers in Spring 2026. As the programme unfolds, we will learn more.
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