Estate & Forestry Operations Lead

The National Trust For Scotland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Trust For Scotland is seeking an experienced Estate Supervisor to lead the estate team at Mar Lodge. You will oversee maintenance across buildings, utilities, tracks, forestry and farmland infrastructure, ensuring compliance and safe operations.

Based at Mar Lodge Estate, you will work with the ecology, conservation, and visitor services teams to deliver a landscape plan and keep assets well managed, while promoting nature recovery across Scotland's largest National Nature Reserve.

Responsibilities

• Planning: Manage maintenance and compliance master sheets so that all works are planned according to priority, recorded in terms of progress and accurate costings tracked.
• Building Maintenance: Carrying out property condition/safety and fire safety checks and inspections in line with Safe Systems of Work.
• Forestry interventions: Plan felling and thinning rotation in accordance with the Mar Lodge Estate management objectives and long-term forest plan in conjunction with the ecology team.
• Infrastructure maintenance and compliance: Oversee operation and maintenance of infrastructure on the estate, including roads, bridges, private water supplies, district heat network, solar panels, sewage treatment and biomass heating system.
• Asset Control: Keep an inventory of all estate tools, plant, vehicles and equipment and ensure they are securely stored and audited periodically
• Grounds/Farmland maintenance: Work with the estate manager, conservation manager and the visitor services manager to update and deliver a landscape plan for the Mar Lodge Policies/designated landscape.
• Health and Safety: Prepare risk assessments for all activities undertaken by the estate team in accordance with Health & Safety legislation tasks.
• Advocacy: Contribute where appropriate to Trust membership recruitment.

Job description

The National Trust For Scotland is seeking an experienced Estate Supervisor to lead the estate team at Mar Lodge. You will oversee maintenance across buildings, utilities, tracks, forestry and farmland infrastructure, ensuring compliance and safe operations.

Based at Mar Lodge Estate, you will work with the ecology, conservation, and visitor services teams to deliver a landscape plan and keep assets well managed, while promoting nature recovery across Scotland's largest National Nature Reserve.