Trade Instructor

Trade Instructor – Cabinet Making /Carpentry

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunities for professional development and accredited training
• A supportive and inclusive team environment
• Career progression pathways
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Flexible work arrangements

Make an impact at Serco

You'll use your carpentry expertise to help others build a better future. As a Trade Instructor – Carpentry, you'll deliver practical, trade-based training to prisoners, supporting them in developing job-ready skills and gaining nationally recognised qualifications. You'll work as part of the collaborative Industries team at Acacia Prison. This is a permanent, full-time role based in Wooroloo, WA.

As a Trade Instructor – Carpentry in the Industries team, you'll make a positive impact by:

• Delivering hands-on carpentry training and overseeing prisoners working on carpentry projects
• Supervising prisoner work teams to achieve workshop productivity and safety goals
• Promoting rehabilitation and post-release employability through skills development
• Ensuring all tools, equipment, and machinery are maintained and securely controlled
• Identifying and addressing safety issues and adhering to WHS and security standards
• Supporting sentence management by reporting prisoner progress, behaviour, and participation

Serco is a place for you

You are a qualified carpenter who enjoys mentoring others and wants to make a real impact in your community. You bring practical workshop experience and a strong understanding of safety, structure, and teaching practices. You're approachable, reliable, and committed to helping others learn and grow.

To be successful in this role you'll have:

• A relevant trade qualification in cabinet making or similar  (Certificate III or equivalent)
• Proven carpentry experience in a commercial or workshop setting
• Knowledge of relevant WHS legislation and safe work practices
• Strong communication skills and the ability to guide and support adult learners
• A valid driver's licence and current forklift licence (or willingness to obtain)
• Ability to obtain DOJ clearance and pass a National Police Check

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. If you like the look of the role, we'd love to hear from you.

Serco Business

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco's services span across the areas of justice, migration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility.In joining us, you'll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.

Please note:

• This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a Federal Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world's most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you'll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.