We are seeking to make one appointment, with the possibility of a second for an exceptional candidate. What we are not doing is filling four separate vacancies. Instead, we have written four role profiles describing four different trade backgrounds a strong candidate might come from — and we are inviting you to apply through whichever one most closely reflects the work you already do well.

The work we carry out is technically demanding and highly visible. A single project can involve forming a fireplace opening, installing a lintel, building a chamber, fitting a hearth and stone surround, running an internal twin-wall flue through floors, ceilings and a roof, connecting and commissioning an appliance, and then finishing the whole thing to a standard that sits at the centre of someone’s living room for the next twenty years.

Very few tradespeople do all of that. We are not expecting anyone to.

Why are we recruiting across four different profiles?

We could have written one enormous job description listing every skill and hoped somebody ticked every box. In our experience that approach does two unhelpful things: it puts off genuinely capable people who fall short on one line, and it attracts applications from people who overstate the rest.

“Four clear profiles, each honest about what it needs and what it pays. You read the one that sounds like you.”

The person we appoint will complement our existing installation capability rather than being expected to cover every discipline immediately. We already hold qualified electrical and F-Gas capability within the team, led by Reilly, our lead installation engineer, who runs our complex twin-wall and air-conditioning installations. What we are adding is depth alongside that, in whichever direction the strongest candidate brings.

If more than one profile describes you, say so in your application. That combination is exactly what we are looking for.

The skills and experience we are interested in

We work across Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and the wider East Anglia region, from our base at Oaklands Park in Bury St Edmunds. The people who do well here tend to have come from carpentry, joinery, general building, brickwork, plastering, roofing, plumbing and heating, gas engineering, refrigeration or stove installation.

What matters most to us is demonstrable practical capability. We would rather see photographs of a fireplace opening you formed, a stone surround you set, or a twin-wall system you routed through a roof, than a list of certificates with nothing behind it. Qualifications matter where they are legally required — and we are strict about that — but on their own they do not tell us whether you can do the work.

Four routes into the Opulence installation team

What matters to us

Across all four profiles, the same things count:

• Reliability and consistent attendance
• Care when working in customers’ homes
• Safe working
• Accurate measuring, setting out and finishing
• Existing practical trade competence
• Productivity and personal responsibility
• Willingness and capacity to develop
• Professional customer communication
• Confidence working at height where required

Reliability sits at the top of that list deliberately. Our installations are booked in advance and run as a small team; a missing person stops the job for everyone.

Employed and subcontract opportunities

Both routes are available where appropriate, and competitive remuneration is offered under each. Pay is assessed according to the profile that applies, your qualifications, your independent capability and the responsibility you carry — not by job title or length of service alone.

The two routes are not simply interchangeable. Where someone works regularly within our programme, uses our vehicle and equipment and is integrated into the installation team, employment is usually the more appropriate arrangement. Genuine self-employment is offered where the working relationship properly supports a contract for services, following an employment-status assessment.

How to apply

Full role profiles, including detailed remuneration, responsibilities and the evidence we ask for, are available on our careers page. Read the one that fits, and tell us if more than one does.