Senior Station Technician - Hartlepool
Salary £34,253 - £40,298 (dependent on experience) Contract type Permanent Hours Full Time Location Hartlepool, County Durham, England Location description This role is based at Hartlepool Lifeboat Station Interview date To be confirmed Closing Date 30-09-2024 Reference 17624 Documents (please view all documents)
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About us
Our purpose is simple, to save lives at sea. Since the 19th century, our crews have been risking their lives to save those who are in danger of drowning. There is an opportunity at our Hartlepool Lifeboat Station for a Senior Station Technician to join the team, whose resilience, leadership, and management skills are just as strong as their ability to keep Hartlepool Lifeboat in perfect operational order.
Some of the benefits
3. £34,253 - £40,298 (dependent on experience)
4. 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
5. Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
6. Life assurance
7. Health and dental cash plan
Your role
As a Senior Station Technician, most of your time will be utilised ensuring that both the current lifeboats; our Trent lifeboat with a Shannon coming later this year their equipment work to the highest order, ensuring that the Lifeboat Station is well managed, and assist training volunteer crew members - so that when an emergency shout does occur, you, your crew and your lifeboat will be absolutely prepared.
Your role will include:
8. Inspiring and motivating your team; managing their progress by leading them on seagoing exercises, conducting shore-based training, identifying ways they can improve and imparting your valuable knowledge
9. Meeting and talking to the general public about your station’s work
10. Taking a lead on Quality, Safety, Health, and Environment issues, helping to develop a positive culture within the station
11. Spending time in the day to day running of the Lifeboat Station; this may be in the form of answering e-mails, ensuring maintenance records are maintained or updating the station’s monthly assurance report.
About you
You’ll have the ability to build effective relationships with volunteers at the lifeboat station, the supporters locally and RNLI staff beyond, while acting as an ambassador for the station and the RNLI within the community.
To be considered for the role of Senior Station Technician at Hartlepool Lifeboat Station you will need:
12. To be a passed-out RNLI ALB Mechanic or relevant experience to achieve competence in a timely manner.
13. To demonstrate leadership and management qualities, and the ability to motivate and maximise people’s potential.
14. Experience of fulfilling a Lifeboat Mechanic role or equivalent, with the capacity and willingness to develop skills in other areas of seagoing duties.
15. Knowledge and experience of the operation, maintenance and repair of marine diesels would be desirable, an engineering background and mindset is essential.
16. This is an emergency response role so the successful candidates would need to live within 8 minutes of the station and be prepared to respond to a pager 24/7 whilst on duty.
So, if you are ready for your next exciting challenge as our new Senior Station Technician at Hartlepool, and if you consider yourself to be, someone who is a natural leader, who can inspire and motivate a team of dedicated people then please apply via the button shown.
This post requires a valid driving licence.
As this is a sea-going appointment, you will need to satisfy the Institution's medical and eyesight standards.