CareersDisciplines
The trades of a whole home.
A finished home passes through many hands. Someone measures the opening, someone checks it against the wind, someone fits it on a wet Tuesday, and someone picks up the phone years later.
These are our nine disciplines. Each one looks at the same home and notices something different.
- 01Design & engineering
- 02Manufacturing & supply partners
- 03Surveying & project management
- 04Installation & field service
- 05Aftercare & repairs
- 06Sales & customer care
- 07Digital & product
- 08Operations & corporate
- 09Marketing & brand
What each trade sees
01 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Design & engineering
Sees the forces: wind on the walls, heat trying to leave, and exactly how every frame is held.
- Wind load on the elevation
- An unbroken thermal line
- A section through the window
02 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Manufacturing & supply partners
Sees the parts: every opening becomes a set of components, made to order and labelled for its room.
- Frame, sash, glass and gaskets
- Door panels, made to size
- A label for every opening
03 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Surveying & project management
Sees the numbers: every opening measured, every level checked, every date in its place.
- Width by height, in millimetres
- Levels and the fall of the drive
- Power and access for the gate
04 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Installation & field service
Sees the sequence: where each fixing goes, which opening comes first, and a clean route from the van.
- Fixings, level and square
- The fitting order
- A protected route from the van
05 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Aftercare & repairs
Sees the moving parts: the drives, hinges, rollers and seals that keep a home opening smoothly.
- Drives and photocells
- Hinges and rollers
- Gaskets and seals
06 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Sales & customer care
Sees the conversation: it starts before the survey and carries on long after the handover.
- The first call or message
- Samples at the kitchen table
- A quotation and its specification
- The handover, and every call after
07 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Digital & product
Sees the connections: the gate, the garage door, the front door, the windows and the blinds, in one app.
- Gate, garage and door drives
- Windows and blinds
- One app to run them
08 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Operations & corporate
Sees the plan behind the day: the van loaded in fitting order, the pavement kept safe, the week on one sheet.
- Loaded in fitting order
- A safe pavement, sorted waste
- The week, planned
09 / 09 · Illustrative drawing
Marketing & brand
Sees the story: the finished home in its best light, the search that finds it, and the message that brings someone back.
- The photograph of the finished home
- The search that finds it
- The message that brings someone back
Explore a trade
Follow a trade from six to six.
Choose a discipline to see what it does, an illustrative day from 06:00 to 18:00, the skills and tools it uses, who it works with, and the roles inside it.
Days, drawings and role titles on this page are illustrative.
01 / 09
Design & engineering
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Illustrative: a typical day, written to give a feel for the work. It is not a timetable, a job description or a promise of particular hours.
Skills you use
CoreUsefulNot central
Skills travel. Choose one to see where else it is core, and where it helps.
Tools of the trade
How it connects
Illustrative: how work typically passes between teams. Solid arrows show what this discipline hands on; dashed arrows show what it receives. Choose another trade in the diagram to switch.
Hands on to
Receives from
Roles like this
Example titles only. Titles vary; Search jobs shows what is open now.
Ways in
One day, nine trades
While one trade measures, another draws.
Drag the line through the same illustrative day. Every trade is busy at once, and much of the work is something one trade hands to another.
At 10:30
Illustrative days, drawn on one timeline. Open any trade to follow it in detail.
Questions
Before you choose.
They are illustrative: typical work for each discipline, written to give you a feel for it. They are not a timetable, a job description or a promise of particular hours, places or projects. Each advert sets out the actual role.
Many skills carry across, as the skills in each trade show: installers often understand aftercare, surveyors understand installation, and customer care learns how every other trade works. If you would like to grow into another trade, talk to your manager. We aim to support people who want to move.
It depends on the role. Some need specific qualifications, licences or safety training; others value experience more than certificates. Each advert says what is essential and what is only helpful.
Roles appear on Search jobs when they are open. On the same page you can register your interest or ask for a job alert for the disciplines you choose.
Next step
From a trade to a role.
Days, drawings, example role titles and skills on this page are illustrative and describe typical work, not specific vacancies. Photographs are concept visualisations. We have a head office in the UK, colleagues working remotely across our markets, and sales and project teams in several capital cities; each advert sets out its own location, hours and requirements. Watford Construction™.
