Skilled Labourer - Retractable Screen Installer

🏢 Good with your hands, and sick of labouring with no way up?

Freedom Retractable Screens makes and installs Australian-made retractable fly screens for homes across Melbourne — a lot of them high-end builds where the screen has to disappear into a bifold, stacker or cavity door and the finish has to be perfect. We manufacture in Carrum Downs and install everywhere.

We're hiring someone to join our installation team and learn the trade properly. You don't need a qualification and you don't need to have seen a retractable screen up close. You need to be handy, reliable, fit, and the kind of person who cares whether the job looks right. We'll teach you the rest — paid, on the job, from day one.

🪰 About us

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.

🔧 What you'll do

• Install retractable screens on finished homes and new builds — several jobs a day, planned and booked for you, mostly Melbourne metro.

• You'll pick up real skills: precise measuring, fitting and adjusting, the carpentry side of installs — rebating tracks into floors, sills and thresholds — and how to leave a finished home cleaner than you found it.

• Deal directly with homeowners, builders and architects

• Assist on, then run, the larger multi-screen integrations, with a second installer working with you.

• Assess and repair damaged screens on service calls

• Look after your car, tools and job records. On site, you're the business.

🌟 What you get

• $30–$35 per hour plus super, where you start in that range depending on what you bring — and it moves up as you tick off milestones, not just birthdays.

• Overtime paid on top when you work it — this is not a salary that swallows your hours.

• Take-home company car, fuel card and power tools supplied

• Regional Victoria and occasional interstate work is part of the job — planned in advance, with travel and accommodation covered

• Options for flexible working arrangements

• Permanent full-time role with a manufacturer that's grown every year for ten years — this job exists because we have more work booked than ever.

• A small team where you deal directly with the director, and a lead installer who actually teaches.

• Regular team functions & activities

• Uniform and training all supplied and paid for — including the tickets you need.

🎓 Who we're after

Must have:

• Physically able to do the work: ladders, kneeling, and lifting.
• Full driver's licence.
• White Card (Construction Induction).
• Competent with hand and power tools.
• Reliable, presentable and comfortable talking to homeowners and builders — you'll be in people's homes every day.

Good to have:

• Time as a carpenter's labourer, trades assistant or on residential sites
• Blinds, awnings, security doors, or window installation
• Shopfitting, cabinet-making assistance, fencing or decking work

None of those? If you're handy and keen, apply anyway and tell us why.

No retractable-screen experience needed. We train the product in your first weeks.

📬 How to Apply

Click Apply Now, or email your resume to [email protected]

Send a few photos of finish work you're proud of — it tells us more than a resume does.

Don’t miss this great opportunity—apply today