Coxswain Mechanic (Up to 12 Month Contract)

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Coxswain Mechanic (Up to 12 Month Contract)

Newhaven, East Sussex

From £30,368 pro rata Plus Benefits

Our client is the charity that saves lives at sea. They now have an opportunity at Newhaven Lifeboat Station for someone whose resilience and leadership skills are just as strong as an ability to handle a boat in adverse sea conditions.

The majority of your time will be divided between ensuring the Seven Class lifeboat and her equipment work to the highest order and training and assessing volunteer crew members to the organisation’s competence standards.

You will take crew members on seagoing exercises, identifying ways they can improve and imparting your valuable knowledge - so that when an emergency shout does occur, you, your crew and your lifeboat will be absolutely prepared. And because there’s always a high degree of interest from the public, you’ll have frequent opportunities to meet them and talk about your station’s work.

To be considered, you’ll need:

- Extensive maritime experience and the ability to command lead a crew and safely operate/handle vessels up to 20 metres in length

- Experience of maintaining and operating high speed marine diesel engines and their ancillary systems

- Operational leadership skills

- Knowledge of SAR operations

- An RYA Yachtmaster Offshore (Power) qualification or equivalent

- A marine and/or mechanical engineering apprenticeship or equivalent to NVQ level 3 standard

You will be required to live in close proximity to the lifeboat station. You will be on call, when not on leave, to enable an effective response when a shout occurs.

As a Coxswain Mechanic, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with volunteers at the lifeboat station and the area lifesaving manager, as well as the local community, regional technical support and national fundraising office.

Ideally, you’ll have an RNLI COBT for ALB Coxswain and Command of the lifeboat operational pass out / RNLI COBT for ALB Mechanic and Command of machinery operational pass out, but this isn’t essential. A basic level of IT literacy would also be beneficial.

The closing date for applications is the 28th March 2018, with interviews scheduled to be held on the 9th April 2018.

Our client’s staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for nearly 200 years. They respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within their teams, and consider it essential to help deliver a world-class lifesaving service. They are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, they also look for applicants who share their commitment to living their values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping them work towards their goals of halving drowning in the UK and Ireland by 2024. This involves a growing commitment to preventative action, using expertise to work in partnership with communities locally, nationally and internationally to prevent drowning.

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