Senior Station Technician

Senior Station Technician - Ballycotton - Temporary (up to 12 months) Salary: €47,575 to €55,970 (dependent on experience) Contract type: Temporary: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Hours: Full Time Location: Ballycotton, Cork, Ireland Location description: This role is based at Ballycotton Lifeboat Station Closing Date: 12-06-2025 Reference: 19547 About us Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea.
24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.
There is an opportunity at Ballycotton Lifeboat Station for a Senior Station Technician to join the team for up to 12 months.
This role would be suitable for someone whose resilience, leadership, and management skills are just as strong as their ability to keep Ballycotton's Lifeboat in perfect operational order.
Some of the benefits - Senior Station Technician - €47,575 to €55,970 (dependent on experience) - Station Technician - €35,810 to €42,129 (dependent on experience) - 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays - Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary) - Life assurance - Health and dental cash plan Your role The role of Senior Station Technician is focused for those individuals with an NVQ L4/SVQ L5 in an engineering discipline or time served engineering apprenticeship or sound background and experience in mechanical electrical or electronic engineering.
If you do not hold the experience to be appointed a Senior Station Technician, you may be considered for an offer as a Station Technician role in lieu, if successful.
As a Senior Station Technician, most of your time will be utilised ensuring that the Trent class ALB and its 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.
You will not be the sole individual responsible for the lifeboat and its equipment.
Our existing mechanic volunteers are there to support you, your training and maintenance activity.
The wider lifeboat staff and volunteers will be there to welcome and support you in all other aspects of the role.
Your role will include: - 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 - Meeting and talking to the general public about your stations work - Taking a lead on Quality, Safety, Health, and Environment issues, helping to develop a positive culture within the station - 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 stations monthly assurance report About you Youll 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 Ballycotton Lifeboat Station, you will need: - You will have completed a time served mechanical apprenticeship, or degree in mechanical, electrical and/or electronic engineering; Republic of Ireland NFQ Level 5, England, Wales & Northern Ireland NVQ level 3, and Scotland SVQ Level 5 at a minimum or equivalent in an engineering discipline.
- Or a sound background and experience in mechanical, electrical and/or electronic engineering rising to a demonstrable level not less that the professional qualifications stated above.
- Or to be a passed-out RNLI ALB Mechanic, with relevant professional qualifications as stated above, and demonstrable experience to achieve competence in a timely manner.
- To demonstrate leadership and management qualities, and the ability to motivate and maximise peoples potential.
- The capacity and willingness to develop skills in other areas of seagoing duties.
- Knowledge and experience of the operation, maintenance and repair of marine diesels would be desirable, an engineering background and mindset is essential.
- If you do not hold the experience to be appointed a Senior Station Technician, you may be considered for an offer as a Station Technician role in lieu, if successful.
This is an emergency response role so the successful candidates would need to live within a reasonable distance from the station and be prepared to respond to a pager 24/7 whilst on duty.
Maritime mechanical skills are not an absolute necessity, if youve worked on cars, HGV, agricultural, plant or generators we can train to adapt your existing skills to suit our equipment.
So, if you are ready for your next exciting challenge as our new Station Technician at Ballycotton, 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.
Safeguarding The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a persons health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect.
We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach.
The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.
This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role.
(England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).