Senior Station Technician / Station Technician - Penlee
Salary £34,893 - £41,050 / £29,079 - £34,210 (dependent on experience) Contract type Permanent Hours Full Time Location Penlee, Newlyn, Cornwall, England Location description This role is based at Penlee Lifeboat Station. Applicants should live within a reasonable distance from Penlee Lifeboat Station Interview date To be confirmed Closing Date 11-01-2026 Reference 21043 Documents (please view all documents)
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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 Penlee 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 Penlee Lifeboats in perfect operational order.
Some of the benefits
4. Senior Station Technician £34,893 - £41,050 (dependent on experience)
5. Station Technician £29,079 - £34,210 (dependent on experience)
6. 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
7. Outstanding pension scheme
8. Life assurance
9. 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 Senior Station Technician, most of your time will be utilised ensuring that the ALB Severn Lifeboat and there 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:
10. 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
11. Meeting and talking to the general public about your station’s work
12. Taking a lead on Quality, Safety, Health, and Environment issues, helping to develop a positive culture within the station
13. 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 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 Penlee Lifeboat Station you will need:
14. To be a passed-out RNLI ALB Mechanic or relevant experience to achieve competence in a timely manner.
15. To demonstrate leadership and management qualities, and the ability to motivate and maximise people’s potential.
16. Experience of fulfilling a Lifeboat Technician role or equivalent, with the capacity and willingness to develop skills in other areas of seagoing duties.
17. Knowledge and experience of the operation, maintenance and repair of marine diesels would be desirable, an engineering background and mindset is essential.
18. Applicants should live within a reasonable distance from Penlee Lifeboat Station.
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 Penlee, 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.
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.