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RSPB • RSPB UKHQ - The Lodge

Site Maintenance Engineer

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £21,622 – £23,987 per annum

4 days/week at home

Fully flexible hours

Dog friendly

Job Description

We are looking for a motivated, skilled and qualified maintenance engineer to help us maintain essential services at UKHQ - The Lodge.

The Lodge Nature Reserve and Gardens is a very special place, offering an exceptionally rich combination of wildlife and heritage experiences. The woodland, heath and acid grassland here cover an area of some 220 hectares, and now form the largest stretch of heathland in Bedfordshire.

What's the role about?

Proactive and reactive maintenance. This will include building fabric, plumbing, basic electrics, carpentry, ground works. Carrying out planned maintenance across the site to ensure legal compliance.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

  • An appropriate building qualification, carpentry skills, plumbing skills, basic electrical skills.
  • At least 5 years previous experience in a similar role.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

  • Commercial electrical knowledge and experience.

This is a Permanent, Full-Time role. We are looking to conduct interviews for this position from 29th November 2022. For further information please contact John.Stephenson@rspb.org.uk

As part of this application you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete a short form. If you wish to provide a cover letter with your application, please include this at the end of your CV document upload.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Before applying for this role, we recommend reading through the candidate guidance notes attached to the top of this advert.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
Enhanced sick pay

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First we assess the flexibility options RSPB provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure RSPB is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

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Working at RSPB

Company employees

2400

Gender diversity (male:female)

41:59

Office locations

Across all 4 UK Countries

Hiring Countries

Liberia
United Kingdom

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