Junior Set Builder

Job description

Junior Set Builder

Onsite - Milton Keynes location

Why join us

Joining the Zest creative agency team at Sainsbury's as a Junior Set Builder offers a unique opportunity to kickstart your career in the creative industry. As a vital support member, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operations of the workshop, assisting in material handling, logistical tasks, and set preparations. Embrace the dynamic and collaborative environment, where you will receive comprehensive training, mentorship, and opportunities for personal and professional growth as you contribute to the exciting world of set construction and creative projects.

What you'll do

As a Junior Set Builder at Sainsbury's Zest creative agency, you will play a vital role in supporting the set build team by handling essential logistical, preparatory, and maintenance tasks in the workshop. Your responsibilities will include material handling and logistics, workshop maintenance and housekeeping, preparation and readiness support, as well as providing general assistance to the team during construction phases. By ensuring a clean and organised workspace, preparing materials, and assisting with set assembly, you will contribute to the smooth operations of the team, allowing them to focus on core construction and creative work. This role offers a dynamic entry into the creative industry, providing you with the opportunity to gain exposure to set construction techniques, tools, materials, and processes while building skills towards more advanced building responsibilities over time.

Who you are

As a Junior Set Builder at Sainsbury's Zest creative agency, you are a proactive and detail-oriented individual with a passion for hands-on work and a strong commitment to supporting the set build team in delivering high-quality creative projects. Your reliability, teamwork skills, and willingness to learn make you an essential asset in ensuring smooth workshop operations and assisting in material handling, logistics, and preparation tasks. With a focus on health and safety, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, you contribute to maintaining a safe, organised, and efficient working environment while gaining valuable experience in set construction techniques and processes.

Essential criteria

Experience carrying out physical manual work, including lifting, moving and handling heavy materials safely.

Experience using basic workshop or construction tools and following established safe working practices.

Experience working in a workshop, construction, set build, theatre, events or similar practical environment.

Experience following health & safety procedures.

Experience assisting with material preparation (e.g. sanding, surface prep, basic cutting under supervision).

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
 
 Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.