Job Details
A Conservation Officer is required to lead a small diverse team of staff and volunteers, carrying out conservation and maintenance of a ship, its structure and fittings.
Our client is one of the world`s leading authorities on conflict and its impact on people`s lives. They aim to share these stories with as large an audience as possible across the world in a way that engages and challenges them.
APPLICATIONS FROM EX-MILITARY PERSONNEL ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
The successful Conservation Officer should be able to demonstrate the skills and competencies set out below, but equally we are looking for people who believe in what our client does and can treat every colleague, customer or visitor with respect, courtesy and honesty.
Primary Duties:
- To identify and evaluate conservation options for areas of the ship, including hazard and risk assessments. Where relevant, working with stakeholders to ensure that appropriate measures are agreed and implemented.
- Demonstrate an understanding of hazards relating to your work and ensure that your work practices comply with relevant Health & Safety regulations and guidelines, minimising risk to yourself and others.
- To implement treatment-based, preventive or conservation management measures based on agreed conservation options, ensuring that measures are commensurate with proposal for use (display and storage) and risk aware.
- Identifying materials and components required in a timely fashion with your Conservation Manager.
- Ensure that conservation measures meet recognised conservation standards.
- Monitor and evaluate the effect of conservation measures.
- To inspect, assess and report on the condition of areas of the ship for use (i.e. display) or in support of long-term preservation. Prepare conservation work-plans based on survey results.
- To ensure that all conservation evaluation, planning, treatment and recommendations are accurately documented and centrally held.
- To work with subject specialists (internally and externally) to develop and implement appropriate sources of further analysis, treatment or preventive care where these lie outside your remit or area of expertise.
- Exercising professional judgement in observing codes of ethics, conservation practise and legal requirements (such as hazard management). Informed by the context of the areas and use.
- Ensure that your practice, knowledge, skills and techniques are up-to-date, both at a general level and in relation to individual projects and tasks that you undertake.
- Train, supervise and quality assure the work of contractors (conservation assistants), interns, students and volunteers in accordance with company policy, procedure and guidance.
- Carry out pre- and post- use inspections on equipment- notifying issues arising on return of equipment to stores.
Skills Requirements:
- Qualified to City and Guilds or NVQ 3 in a relevant engineering discipline. Or demonstrable experience of working in a specialist field e.g. mechanical or marine engineering.
- Understanding of current Health and Safety regulations.
- Experience of managing a small professional team
- Demonstrable knowledge of conservation or engineering best practice
Additional Responsibilities:
- You will be expected to work independently as well as across different teams in order to contribute to and deliver against priorities - using your knowledge, skills, talent and potential to the best of your ability.
- You will focus at all times on delivering excellent customer service, ensuring value for money at all times while being professional, courteous and demonstrating the behaviours and attributes expected of all employees. You will also adhere to all corporate standards, and use corporate systems as directed to ensure consistency of service, brand and operational standards.
Benefits:
The benefits listed below are discretionary and our client reserves the right, with due notice, to vary or withdraw them at any time. All such benefits apply during the course of your employment only.
- The annual leave allowance is 25 days per annum plus public holidays rising to 30 days after 5 years
- Our client is a member of the Civil Service Pension Scheme. Employer pension contributions to the civil service pension scheme vary but are normally between 16.7% - 24.3% dependent on salary and length of service.
- An interest free season ticket lo
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