Job Description
Lead Carpenter / Carpenter – Retractable Screen Installer (High-End Homes)
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You're a carpenter first. The product, we'll teach you.
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Freedom Retractable Screens makes and installs Australian-made retractable fly screens for homes across Melbourne — many of them high-end builds where the architect wants the screen to disappear into a bifold, stacker or cavity door. That's where the carpentry is: rebating tracks into timber, tile and stone floors, working sills and thresholds, pod pavers, scribing and packing to reveals that were never square, and leaving a finished home cleaner than you found it.
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We're after a qualified carpenter — ideally one who has run their own jobs or led a small crew — to take a car, run their own installs, and grow into leading the bigger integrations.
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If you're a subbie who's tired of quoting, chasing invoices and paying for your own car, this is a steady week without going back onto a big site.
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Freedom Retractable Screens Victoria & SA is a leader in retrofit retractable screens, with over 70 years' combined experience across the team, and our products are Australian-made. The factory is in Carrum Downs, with showrooms also in Richmond and Torquay. We've grown every year for ten years and have more work booked than ever.
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What you'll do
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Install retractable screens on finished homes and new builds — several jobs a day, planned and booked for you, mostly Melbourne metro.
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Do the carpentry that makes a screen look built-in, not bolted on: rebating tracks into floors, sills and thresholds, packing and scribing, working to the architect's detail.
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Cutting of pod pavers to integrate screens further.
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Deal directly with homeowners, builders and architects.
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Assist on, then run,



the larger multi-screen integrations, with a second installer working with you.
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Assess and repair damaged screens on service calls.
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Look after your car, tools and job records. On site, you're the business.
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What you get
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$80,000–$100,000 base plus super. Where you land depends on your trade experience and whether you've led jobs.
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Overtime paid on top when you work it — this is not a salary that swallows your hours.
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Take-home company car, fuel card and power tools supplied.
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Regional Victoria and occasional interstate work is part of the job — planned in advance, with travel and accommodation covered.
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Options for adaptable working arrangements.
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A small team where you deal directly with the director. Decisions get made the same day.
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Regular team functions & activities.
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Paid product training, then a clear path: installer → lead installer → running the install team. We pay for the tickets you need.
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Who we're after
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Must have:
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Trade-qualified carpenter (Certificate III in Carpentry or equivalent). A cabinet maker with real on-site fit-off experience will be considered.
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Full driver's licence.
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White Card (Construction Induction).
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Finish-carpentry standards — you notice a 1 mm step and fix it before anyone else sees it.
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Comfortable running your own day, talking to clients, and working on your own.
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Good to have:
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Leading-hand or foreman experience, or you've run your own jobs.
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Fit-off, joinery installation, door and window installation, or shopfitting background.
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Time on high-end residential builds.
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No retractable-screen experience needed. We train the product in your first weeks.
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📌 Lead Carpenter / Carpenter - Retractable Screen Installer (High-End Homes) (Victoria)
🏢 Freedom Retractable Screens Victoria
📍 Victoria