Internal Job Title: Boat Safety Scheme Quality & Technical Manager
Advertised Salary: £50,000 + car cash allowance (£5,400) + benefits.
Location: Remote, with regular travel across our network required. See here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/canals-and-rivers
We're the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, because we believe that life is better by water. Every role across the Trust plays its part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions.
This role is as an employee of the Canal & River Trust and is on permanent secondment to Boat Safety Scheme Limited, or BSS. It is a public safety initiative run as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. The BSS role is to support navigation and harbour authorities, by helping to reduce the risk of boat fires, explosions, carbon monoxide or pollution harming visitors to the inland waterways, the waterways' workforce, other waterways users and property on or alongside the waterways. See www.boatsafetyscheme.org/about-us/ for more detail.
We currently have an opportunity for a Marine Engineering Quality & Technical Manager to join our team. This role will aid the development and help ensure the delivery of the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) strategy and supporting BSS Business, Quality management, Budget & Finance Plans; as well as manage the technical input that supports BSS decision-making.
Large parts of this role will include:
Location & coverage
The position will be offered on a remote working basis, with a requirement to attend our main hub spaces and or other navigation & harbour authority offices throughout the UK as and when required for team working and collaborative meetings. Travel throughout the waterway network is expected in order to conduct site visits.
BSS Limited represents numerous navigation authorities throughout the UK, we have training centres at Evesham, Northampton and Norwich. We hold technical conferences in numerous locations but mainly based in Warwick. Our monthly meetings are held In Hemel Hempstead. Overnight stays are an essential part of the role.
Our regional office hubs include: Leeds, Ellesmere Port, Burnley, Newark, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Gloucester, London.
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To apply: click on the "Apply for this job" button and follow the process - complete the application form & upload current CV
Interviews: Initial interviews will be conducted virtually.
If you have any questions about the role please contact CRT.recruitment@canalrivertrust.org.uk
In addition to your annual base salary of £50,000, we also offer a car cash allowance (£450 per month), a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits we are also open to flexible working arrangements.
At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.
All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.
When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.
Find out more about us on our website: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us