Senior Industrial Heritage Technician | Permanent | 37hrs | £28,142 - £32,062
Lancashire County Museum Service are currently recruiting a Senior Industrial Heritage Technician to lead a team of heritage technicians in the care, maintenance, and demonstration of working heritage machinery. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a team caring for the Lancashire textile industry collection – designated by Arts Council England as being of national importance.
Your new role
It will be in person and based at the museum sites of Helmshore in Rossendale and Queen Street Mill in Harle Syke, Burnley. It will be full time (37 hrs per week) and paid at Grade 6 (£28,142 - £32,062). As the Senior Industrial Heritage Technician, you will lead a team of staff and volunteers.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Managing the industrial heritage technical team including their training, deployment across two museum sites
2. Managing the Health & Safety compliance for the maintenance and operation of all heritage machinery and site workshops
3. Managing the day-to-day maintenance and operation of the working mill machinery in three mills across both sites. This includes:
Power generation and delivery by means of waterwheel and steam engine
The processes of Lancashire cotton spinning, cotton weaving and woollen fulling as interpreted at the museum sites
4. Building partnerships with outside experts and local organisations to preserve the skills and knowledge required to operate historic machinery
5. Monitoring performance and ensuring best practise
What we need from you
A science or engineering background focused on operating and maintaining historic machinery either from education, work experience, or pastime. An appreciation of the heritage sector, and willingness to gain an in-depth knowledge of the Lancashire textile industry. Demonstrable management ability and an excellent knowledge of Health & Safety at work procedures.
Contact us
If you want to find out more about this specialist role, please make an appointment for an in-person chat with the curator Philip Butler on either 12th or 14th November on 01772534016. Or you could come along to Helmshore Mills Textile Museum on Tuesday 18th November or Queen Street Mill Textile Museum on Wednesday 19th November between 1-3pm to see for yourself.
These are just some of the benefits you could enjoy by working for Lancashire County Council:
Great holiday entitlement
6. 26 days annual leave entitlement rising to 32, after five years' continuous service (pro rata for part time employees)
7. Ability to buy up to 20 days additional leave per year (pro rata for part time employees) – dependant on your job role and business need
8. Eight bank holidays and two further additional statutory days during the Christmas and New Year period
Health and wellbeing
9. Occupational sick pay scheme
10. Occupational Health Services
11. Cycle to work scheme
12. Eyesight test contribution
13. Employee Assistance Programme
Family friendly employer
14. Help to balance family commitments, including generous maternity leave, paternity leave and support for working carers
15. Adoption and parental leave
Financial benefits
16. Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, death in service payments, life assurance and dependents pensions
17. A long service award scheme
18. Access to the Blues and Twos credit union for you and your family
19. A generous relocation reimbursement package to move to Lancashire
Staff discounts
Our staff discount scheme offer you access to a huge range of discounts across the UK’s major retailers including supermarkets, technology, fashion, travel and much more
Training and development
20. Training and development opportunities
21. Apprenticeship scheme - available to all employees
22. Staff Recognition Scheme and Annual Awards Ceremony
Travel benefits
23. Discounts on bus travel
24. Bike stores, changing and showering facilities in some locations
The Lancashire values
We value our staff as individuals and aim to help them achieve their full potential while working for us. We offer a work environment that encourages staff engagement, team working and problem solving and we recognise the importance and benefits of a good work life balance.
All of our staff are expected to live by our Lancashire values. These values, which have been developed and agreed by our staff, reflect the way we work with our customers, partners and each other and they flow through everything we do.
Supportive
We are supportive of our customers and colleagues, recognising their contributions and making the best of their strengths to enable our communities to flourish.
Innovative
We deliver the best services we possibly can, always looking for creative ways to do things better, putting the customer at the heart of our thinking and being ambitious and focused on how we can deliver the best services now and in the future.
Respectful
We treat colleagues, customers and partners with respect, listening to their views, empathising and valuing their diverse needs and perspectives, to be fair, open and honest in all that we do.
Collaborative
We listen to, engage with, learn from and work with colleagues, partners and customers to help achieve the best outcomes for everyone.
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.