Senior Station Technician / Station Technician - Kilkeel

RNLI; Newry; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Station Technician to join their dedicated team at Kilkeel Lifeboat Station. This is a pivotal role for individuals with strong leadership and engineering skills, focused on maintaining operational excellence of the lifeboat and training volunteer crew members. The ideal candidate will inspire and motivate their team while ensuring safety and quality standards are upheld. With a competitive salary and excellent benefits, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a community-focused organization committed to saving lives at sea.

Benefits

26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Outstanding pension scheme

Life assurance

Health and dental cash plan

Qualifications

• NVQ L4/SVQ L5 in engineering or equivalent experience required.
• Experience in mechanical, electrical, or electronic engineering is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the team on seagoing exercises and training.
• Ensure the lifeboat and equipment are maintained to the highest standards.
• Handle day-to-day operations and communications at the station.

Skills

Leadership

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Team Management

Marine Diesel Operation

Education

NVQ L4/SVQ L5 in Engineering

Engineering Apprenticeship

Job description

RNLI Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-Time

Location: Kilkeel, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Location description: This role is based at Kilkeel Lifeboat Station.

Closing Date: 11-05-2025

Reference: 19487

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 Kilkeel Lifeboat Station for a Senior Station Technician to join the team. This role would be suitable for someone whose resilience, leadership, and management skills are just as strong as their ability to keep Kilkeel's Lifeboat in perfect operational order.

Some of the benefits

- Salary of £29,079 - £41,050 (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 these qualifications or experience are not held, then suitable individuals may be offered a Station Technician role in lieu.

As a Station Technician, most of your time will be utilised ensuring that the Shannon 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 station’s 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 emails, ensuring maintenance records are maintained, or updating the station’s monthly assurance report.

About you

You’ll 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 Technician at Kilkeel Lifeboat Station, you will need:

- To be a passed-out RNLI ALB Mechanic or relevant experience to achieve competence in a timely manner.

- To demonstrate leadership and management qualities, and the ability to motivate and maximise people’s potential.

- Experience of fulfilling a Lifeboat Technician role or equivalent, with 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.

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 you’ve worked on cars, HGV, agricultural, plant or generators, we can train you 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 Kilkeel, 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 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.

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