Employment Type: Ongoing
Classification: Parliamentary Service Level 5
Closing Date: 11:30pm AEDT, 3 June 2025.
Contact: Craig Clancy, 0407966762, craig.clancy@aph.gov.au

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The ideal candidate is a skilled carpenter or cabinet maker with experience supervising small trade teams. You’re organised, hands-on, and confident in planning and overseeing daily maintenance work. You take pride in craftsmanship, communicate clearly, and can identify and report complex issues as they arise.
Job Specific Requirements:

Eligibility - Mandatory

• Trade Certificate in Carpentry and Joinery or Cabinet Maker.
• Ability to work at heights.
• Work flexible working arrangements (up to 30% including 9 weekend days) to meet operational requirements including Parliamentary sitting, shifts, on-call rosters, out of hours works, weekends and duties as required, in the current Departmental Enterprise Agreement 2024 and any future agreements.
• The successful applicant will be required to obtain and maintain a Baseline Vetting (Protected/Restricted) security clearance.

Desirable

• Post Trade qualifications are desirable.
• Safety related qualifications such as manual handling training, working at heights, confined spaces entry, or elevated work platform.

At DPS, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that ensures all our people can contribute to our shared purpose. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with caring responsibilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, people from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people who identify as neurodivergent, and mature aged people.

We proudly provide innovative, unified, and client-focused services to the Australian Parliament and parliamentarians. We are a values driven department, placing our values at the heart of everything we do; from our service offerings and decision making to our interactions with stakeholders and each other.
Our people are employed in a broad and unique range of professional, customer service and trade-based roles, all joined by a shared purpose: to make an enduring contribution to Australia’s parliamentary democracy. We have an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of the community we serve. While we come from all walks of life, we share a commitment to care for and protect our iconic workplace.
Every year, almost one million people visit Australian Parliament House to experience the parliamentary process, the building’s architecture, nationally significant art collections, events, tours, and food and dining experiences – all made possible by our people, who are active participants in an environment where no two days are the same.