Build, Maintain and Make a Difference Across Metro South Health

Use your carpentry and joinery expertise to help keep Queensland's largest public health facilities safe, functional and ready to deliver exceptional patient care.

Job details

Your new role:

Join Metro South Health as a skilled Carpenter/Joiner, delivering planned and reactive maintenance across a diverse portfolio of hospital and healthcare facilities. Working as part of a collaborative trades team, you'll install, maintain and repair critical infrastructure, manage maintenance activities, liaise with stakeholders and contractors, and help ensure our facilities remain safe, compliant and fit for purpose. This is a hands-on role where your technical expertise, problem-solving skills and commitment to quality will directly support frontline healthcare services every day.

About you:

You're a qualified and motivated trades professional who takes pride in delivering high-quality carpentry and joinery services while contributing to safe, reliable healthcare environments.

• Trade qualified in Carpentry/Joinery with experience in building maintenance or construction.
• Skilled in diagnosing issues, interpreting technical drawings and delivering practical, cost-effective solutions.
• Able to manage competing priorities, work independently and consistently deliver quality outcomes.
• A collaborative communicator who builds positive relationships with colleagues, contractors and stakeholders.
• Committed to workplace safety, continuous improvement and delivering exceptional customer-focused service.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• MS07687307 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)