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Anglian Water Services • Northampton | United Kingdom

Park Ranger

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  From £25,000 per annum
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Park Ranger

Full Time Permanent

Base Location Pitsford & Draycote Water

Salary from: £25,000 per annum

Join our team and make a difference!

We are looking for a Ranger to join our team here at Pitsford & Draycote Water. As a Ranger, most of your time will be spent outside, undertaking inspections and maintenance of the Water Park facilities and infrastructure including fishing boat fleets, signage, buildings. You will be responsible for managing and looking after our customers at our game and coarse fisheries and wider park visitors across Pitsford, Draycote, Ravensthorpe and Hollowell. You will complete practical land and countryside management enhancing the natural environment for the benefit of our visitors and wildlife. You will supervise volunteer work parties and work closely with our retail and café teams and on site partners.

You'll be responsible for all aspects of safety and security of the facilities for customers and staff, including supervision of the safe use of leisure equipment, security of all assets and the operation of security systems.

You’ll assist with use of site facilities, providing tuition on operation of boats and equipment, advising on permits and enforcing bylaws. You’ll also support in the management of fisheries by maintaining appropriate level and quality of stock, reporting variances to the Head Ranger/Manager, reporting on weekly catch data, and ensure compliance with relevant permit and hire bylaws and safety policies.

This role will see you working at both our Northamptonshire Parks (PItsford, Ravensthorpe & Hollowell Waters) and Draycote Water Fishery. Work base will be Pitsford Water and Draycote Water.

As a valued member of the team, you are entitled to these fantastic benefits:

  • Private Health Care for you and your loved ones

  • 25 days Annual Leave Allowance

  • Company Induction, Uniform and Training

  • Free parking at all our water parks

  • Discounts across our water parks – including our Watersports Centre and Cafe’s

  • Mobile phone contract discounts for you and your family

  • Discounts across cinema, airport parking and gyms/health clubs

What does it take to be a Park Ranger?

  • Experience in the management and maintenance of country parks and/or fisheries

  • Advantageous if you have a land management and/or water based practical qualifications

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and strive to deliver outstanding customer service at our waters

  • Knowledge of angling particularly fly fishing and predator fishing.

  • Practical maintenance skills and a can do, positive attitude.

  • If successful in your application, you will have access to a company vehicle to use whilst on site, so a full driving licence is essential.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.

Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

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Company benefits

25-30 days annual leave + bank holidays
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bank holiday swaps
Bike parking – Secure bike parks at main offices
Buy or sell annual leave – 5 days (pro rata'd if part time)
Cinema discounts
Company car
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance – Personal Accident cover - providing a lump sum in the case of an accident leading to injury, death or disablement at any time, whether you are on company business or not
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – 2 schemes available
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay
Enhanced pension match/contribution – Double the contribution you make up to 6% - you pay in 6%, we pay in 12%
Enhanced sick pay
Eye Care Support – Free eye tests for visual display unit (VDU) users, along with free/discounts on glasses
Faith rooms
Family health insurance – Discounted family health insurance. Available to select annually.
Fertility treatment leave
Further education support
Gym membership – Discounted gym membership
Hackathons
Health assessment
Health insurance – Private Healthcare scheme including cover for pre-existing conditions
In house training
Income protection – Should you be unwell and unable to work for a period of time, the Income Replacement scheme may provide you with income for two years combined with sickness absence
Interest free loans
Learning platform
Life insurance – 8 times your basic annual salary
Loyalty programme – Awards for long service, along with increase in annual leave allowance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Neo-natal leave
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave – 5 days paid
Pregnancy loss leave
Private GP service – 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments for you and your household
Professional subscriptions
Religious celebration leave
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks full pay
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Volunteer days
Work from anywhere scheme – Available to those employees whose work can be done fully remotely
Reservist leave

Working at Anglian Water Services

Company employees:

6500

Gender diversity (m:f:n-b):

66:33:1

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