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You will interact with customers from the Passive Fire Protection industry every day allowing you the opportunity to educate them as well as learn from them.\nJob Description\nPut your practical joinery skills to work in a more rewarding environment.\nUKTC is looking for practical people with joinery, workshop manufacturing or window and door installation experience to join our fire testing laboratory just outside East Kilbride.\nThis is not a traditional laboratory role and you do not need any previous laboratory or fire testing experience.\nIt is a hands-on construction role where you will use practical skills every day, working from drawings and instructions to build and install specimens that will be subjected to fire resistance testing.\nThe role could suit an experienced bench joiner looking for a new challenge, a window or door manufacturing operative looking to develop their skills, or a site joiner who wants the stability of working from one permanent location.\nWho could this role suit?\nWe would particularly like to hear from:\nBench or workshop joiners, particularly those working within window, door or construction product manufacturing\nTime-served joiners looking to move away from travelling between construction sites into a permanent place of work\nExperienced window and door installers\nJoiners' mates or semi-skilled construction operatives with good practical skills\nPeople confident using hand and power tools who can measure, cut, assemble and install accurately\nYou do not need to be a fully qualified joiner. 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