Bricklayer

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 12 January 2026    

Closing Date: Sunday 14 December 2025 

Contract Type: Permanent  

Salary: TD4 £32,343.17 

Working Pattern: 36 hours per week 

Location: Bankhead Depot, Bankhead Central, Glenrothes 

Supporting Statement 

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement. 

Job Details 

You will work within the Maintenance Section of Building Services, Mobile Working. To carry out general bricklayer/builder duties to our domestic and non-domestic properties such as Build brick and block work, hard and soft landscaping, erection and installation of masonry components.  To provide all aspects of internal and external bricklayer/builder works to our domestic and non-domestic properties throughout Fife. This will include major works and new build ensuring all works are carried out to industry standards.  

To have flexibility and carry out any “bolt-on skills” work as is required to complete work as defined in Craft Remuneration package and considered as good practice.  

The Person 

Time-served trades person in required trade as recognised by industry board. 

Experience of property maintenance, installations, and renewals to domestic and/or non-domestic properties. 

City & Guilds Certificate in required trade and/or equivalent SVQ level 3 attainments. 

Equivalent certification of completion of Apprentice in required trade. 

Ability to work on your own with minimum supervision. 

Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines and respond positively when under pressure 

Ability to work from ladder and scaffold systems, access and platforms. 

Ability to carry out assigned work and meet deadlines and respond positively when under pressure 

Ability to interpret instructions from job tickets for material requirements, etc 

Healthy & Safety awareness and understanding appropriate to role. 

Fife Council Building Services Construction has a Respiratory Protective Equipment policy. The policy requires personnel working in environments where inhalation of substances harmful to health will mean a requirement to wear tight fitting protective equipment (examples of which are disposable masks) therefore, personnel must undertake a face fitting, this will require the wearer to meet regulatory requirements as per HSG 53 Respiratory Equipment at Work (HSE Guidance).  

Females are under-represented in workforce

‘We particularly encourage applications from women, who are currently underrepresented within this type of work’.  

Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme  

Further Information  

• Role Profile - when preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile 

• How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace.  See our How We Work Matters Framework behaviour framework for more information.  

• Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services  

• Directorate Information Council Department information 

• Alternative Formats - Job information can be made available in alternative formats, to make a request please email: transactions.recruitment@fife.gov.uk 

For further information, please contact: Drew Muir, drew.muir@fife.gov.uk