Job Description

Salary
34,893 - 41,050 / 29,079 - 34,210 (dependent on experience)
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Location
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Location description
This role is based at Tenby Lifeboat Station
Closing Date
07-07-2025
Reference
19251
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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 Tenby Lifeboat Station for a Station Technician / Senior Station Technician to join the team. This would suit someone whose mechanical expertise, resilience, leadership, and management skills are just as strong as their ability to keep Tenby Lifeboat in perfect operational order.
Some of the benefits

• Senior Station Technician 34,893 - 41,050 (dependent on skills and experience)
• Station Technician 29,079 - 34,210 (dependent on skills and 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
As a Senior Station Technician, most of your time will be utilised ensuring that our Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat, D Class Inshore Lifeboat and associated equipment work to the highest order, ensuring that the Lifeboat Station is well managed, and assist training volunteer crew members - so that when a service call does occur, you, your crew and your lifeboat will be absolutely prepared.
You will not be the sole individual working on the lifeboat and its equipment. You will also lead and work alongside out team of mechanic volunteers at the station and our wider technical support staff to ensure the equipment is maintained to the required standards.
The role of Senior Station Technician is focused for those individuals with an NVQ L4/SVQ L5 in an engineering discipline, a time served engineering apprenticeship, or sound background and experience in mechanical, electrical, or electronic engineering. If these qualifications or experience are not held then suitable individuals may be offered a Station Technician role in lieu.
Your role will include:

• Inspiring and motivating your team; supporting their development, conducting shore-based training, identifying ways they can improve and imparting your valuable knowledge.
• Meeting and talking to the public about your station's work. Tenby Lifeboat Station is open to the public and has a high number of visitors.
• 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 records are maintained and working with the Operations Team.

About you
You will 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.
You will be someone who already holds or is willing and able to work towards the required qualifications and competencies for this role. If you don't have everything mentioned in the job spec, please still apply, we are keen to hear how your previous experience could fit with this role in the RNLI. Attitude and willingness to progress and learn are most important.
You will be personally motivated, prepared to work in isolation and as part of a team, keen to solve problems, drive your own development and support others to develop. You will have high quality interpersonal skills and the ability to build open and inclusive relationships. You will take pride in your work and be willing to ask for and receive feedback.
To be considered for the role of Senior Station Technician at Tenby Lifeboat Station you will need:

• Knowledge and experience working with diesel engines, as well as DC electrical, hydraulic, and electronic control systems. An engineering background and mindset is essential.
• To demonstrate leadership and management qualities, and the ability to motivate and maximise people's potential.
• Experience of fulfilling or the ability to train towards a Lifeboat Mechanic role or equivalent, with the capacity and willingness to develop skills in other areas of seagoing duties.

Maritime mechanical skills are not an absolute necessity, if you've 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 Senior Station Technician at Tenby Lifeboat Station, and if you consider yourself a natural leader, who can inspire and motivate a team of dedicated volunteers, then apply via the button shown.
This is a seagoing 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.
This post requires a valid driving licence.
As this is a sea-going appointment, you will need to satisfy the Institution's medical and eyesight standards.
Safeguarding
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person's 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).
Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.