CURRENT VACANCIES

Salary (Grade 5) – £28,554 – £31,557 per annum (dependent upon experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – permanent

Location: The National Museum of the Royal Navy based at the Portsmouth Harbour Sites.

The National Museum’s vision is to be the world’s most inspiring Naval Museum: inspiring learning, enjoyment, and engagement with the story of the Royal Navy and its impact in shaping the modern world.

The National Museum of the Royal Navy is the UK’s newest national Museum. We are recruiting for an experienced Facilities Manager working within the Operations team based at our Portsmouth Harbour Sites. This is a unique opportunity to play a leading role in caring for some of Portsmouth’s oldest buildings and helping to ensure the NMRN’s visitors have a safe, extraordinary and enriching day out. You will manage the work of our Facilities Technicians in delivering planned and reactive maintenance to our Portsmouth Harbour Sites. With a positive attitude and ability to manage and motivate your team, you will work collaboratively with other diverse teams across the museum.

Key Opportunities

• Opportunity to be involved in interesting and challenging work within a unique heritage environment.
• Manage the team working to improve and maintain the NMRN’s historic buildings.
• Develop new ways of working for the benefit of the Facilities Team and museum.
• Further develop a program of planned maintenance to ensure the sites remain safe, inspiring and enjoyable for our visitor’s, staff and volunteers.
• Develop key working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Knowledge/Experience

• Strong Facilities Management background.
• Experience of working with Facilities Management software.
• Practical experience of Health and Safety and producing risk assessments.
• Experience of safe working at height, maintenance of access registers and mobile access equipment.
• Experience working with the public and having a customer centric approach to completing repairs in a busy environment.
• Experience of procurement and management of contractors is essential.
• Knowledge of the legal framework for controlling risks such as fire, asbestos and legionella.

We provide:

• The opportunity to be part of a friendly and diverse workplace within a unique heritage environment.
• Group pension plan with Royal London (6% employer contributions, 2% employee contributions and death in service benefit).
• Free onsite parking (for permanent roles)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service, pro rata.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity/adoption and paternity pay.
• Flexible working.
• Employee Assistance programme.
• Free admission to other national museums and attractions within the reciprocal agreement.
• Discounts at our shops and cafes.
• Free and discounted tickets for family and friends.

This post requires a DBS check as a requirement of working on the naval base. This is not a UK sponsored visa role, therefore candidates must have the right to work in the UK to apply for this role.

For further details, or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Jason Webb, Deputy General Manager (Project Delivery & Facilities Lead), at Jason.webb@nmrn.org.uk or 023 9289 1370 Ext: 2079 

Applicants are asked to apply via https://jobs.nmrn.org.uk/ no later than midnight, Sunday 9 July 2023. We will be conducting interviews at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth, on 18 July 2023.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to the application process because of a disability, please contact the HR team on recruitment@nmrn.org.uk for support.

Salary (Grade 6) – £39,156 – £40,463 per annum (dependent upon experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – permanent

Location: The National Museum of the Royal Navy based at the Portsmouth Harbour Sites.

The National Museum’s vision is to be the world’s most inspiring Naval Museum: inspiring learning, enjoyment, and engagement with the story of the Royal Navy and its impact in shaping the modern world.

We are recruiting for a full-time Lead Shipwright to join the team working on HMS Victory, as part of the Heritage and Strategic Programmes Directorate. The Lead Shipwright will be joining the team at an exciting stage in the progress of the conservation of HMS Victory, as we embark on a ten-year programme of works to stabilise and preserve the ship.

The work involves management of the Victory’s Shipwright Team to deliver the work to repair Victory’s hull, including replacement of all external planking, from waterline to sheer strake. You will be a senior member of the project team developing and delivering the plan for conservation of the ship. You will bring your skills from similar timber ship conservation projects and apply them to Victory’s conservation.

Team work and communication skills are key aspects of this role to ensure that best practice is applied to all our work.

Key Opportunities

• Opportunity to lead the team of shipwrights in their works on HMS Victory, which are critical to the future preservation of the ship.
• Be a key member of the team working to improve and develop the conservation approach to HMS Victory, taking responsibility for ensuring the quality of timber required for shipwright works is met.
• Work closely with colleagues in the Conservation team and within Museum Operations, providing advice and/or practical assistance as appropriate.
• Opportunity to be part of the team working on the conservation of our internationally important collection of historic ships, with a focus on HMS Victory.

Knowledge/Experience

You will have:

• Specialist knowledge of the construction, conservation and maintenance of timber historic ships or built heritage. You will have knowledge of the technical properties of timber as relevant to ship building.
• Experience of leading a team in timber ship conservation.
• Experience in the production and use of project documentation.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety requirements.
• Experience of leading, managing and motivating staff.
• A positive attitude and ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.

We provide:

• The opportunity to be part of a friendly and diverse workplace within a unique heritage environment.
• Group pension plan with Royal London (6% employer contributions, 2% employee contributions and death in service benefit).
• Free onsite parking on receipt of a Car Pass
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service, pro rata.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity/adoption and paternity pay.
• Flexible working.
• Employee Assistance programme.
• Free admission to other national museums and attractions within the reciprocal agreement.
• Discounts at our shops and cafes.
• Free and discounted tickets for family and friends.

This post requires a DBS check as a requirement of working on a naval base. This is not a UK sponsored visa role; therefore, candidates should have the right to work in the UK to apply for this role.

For further details, or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Leonardo Bortolami, Master Shipwright, at leonardo.bortolami@nmrn.org.uk

Applicants are asked to apply via https://jobs.nmrn.org.uk/ no later than midnight, Sunday 12 July 2023. We will be conducting interviews at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth, on Thursday 23 May 2024.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to the application process because of a disability, please contact the HR team on recruitment@nmrn.org.uk for support.

Salary (Grade 4): £26,364 – £27,437 per annum (dependent upon experience)

Full time Hours: 37.5 Hours per week. Working 5 days over 7, will include regular weekend working.

Location: Work across National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; Submarine Museum and Explosion in Gosport

Our vision is to be the world’s most inspiring Naval Museum. Our mission is to link Navy to Nation, inspiring learning, enjoyment and engagement with the story of the Royal Navy, and its impact in shaping the modern world.

Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (PHD) is the home of to some of the world’s most famous ships, including HMS Victory and the Mary Rose. We welcome nearly 1 million visitors each year, who come to soak up our awe-inspiring story of naval and maritime history. We are looking for a Visitor Experience Manager to join our team and help ensure a day out to PHD is extraordinary and memorable.

You will be a champion of good customer service and have an eye for detail. Working as part of a team of Visitor Experience Managers, you will lead, motivate, and inspire your team showing you care about their overall happiness, health, and wellbeing at work. You will act as a positive role model for the operations team supporting them to achieve commercial targets relating to souvenir guidebooks, gift aid conversion, upselling tickets, and retail offer.

You will be responsible for the security of our sites and attractions, our buildings and collections and the safety of our staff and visitors, making sure the site is safe throughout the day and implementing risk assessments; a cool head and a calm manner is a must.

Knowledge

The ideal candidate will have demonstratable knowledge of:

• Leading, inspiring and motivating teams
• Excellent customer service and customer care principles
• Commercial awareness and how to drive income through a high-quality customer experience
• Health and Safety requirements and a willingness to learn more

Experience

The ideal candidate will have experience of:

• Working in a supervisory or management role
• Working in a customer focused environment including responsibility for commercial activity
• Motivating people to achieve their best
• Delivering an outstanding customer experience
• Working independently and as part of a team

We provide:

• The opportunity to be part of a friendly and diverse workplace within a unique heritage environment
• Group pension plan with Royal London (6% employer contributions, 2% employee contributions and death in service benefit)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service, pro rata
• Occupational sick pay
• Flexible working
• Employee Assistance programme
• Free admission to other national museums and attractions within the reciprocal agreement.
• Discounts at our shops and cafes
• Free and discounted tickets for family and friends

This post requires a DBS check as a requirement for working on the naval base, as well as the right to work in the UK. Please note we cannot currently sponsor work visas for this role.

For further details, or an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Catherine Austen, Deputy General Manager (Operations) on email catherine.austen@nmrn.org.uk

Applicants are asked to apply via https://jobs.nmrn.org.uk/ no later than midnight, Sunday 12 May 2024.

We will be conducting the interviews in Portsmouth on Wednesday 22 May 2024.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to the application process because of a disability, please contact the HR team on recruitment@nmrn.org.uk for support.

Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 (dependent on experience)

Hours: Full-time, permanent position

Location: Portsmouth & Gosport

Portsmouth Historic Quarter is the custodian of historic buildings, boats and spaces in and around Portsmouth Harbour.  We are an ambitious and collaborative charity, actively creating authentic, educational and enjoyable places, experiences and opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a unique maritime heritage setting, managing the delivery of capital construction and conservation projects across a diverse estate portfolio encompassing Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and Priddy’s Hard in Gosport.

You will have full responsibility and accountability for the effective delivery of PHQ’s construction and conservation projects in terms of safety, time, quality and cost.  Projects over coming years will include the restoration of workshops to create artists’ studios; the renovation of a Grade II listed Boathouse to create a performance space, and a £10m plus project to restore a magnificent Grade I listed Storehouse.  You will also be responsible for oversight of long and shorter-term maintenance programmes for PHQ’s estate portfolio.

You will need a proven track record of successful project development and delivery, with experience of pre-construction and construction phases, ideally within a conservation or heritage setting.  You should be able to demonstrate practiced stakeholder management skills and strong financial acumen.

What we offer:

•  The opportunity to work with a dedicated team of people, who have a shared passion for preserving and revitalizing our maritime heritage
• Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
• Group pension scheme
• Life insurance and income protection cover
• Health screening
• Employee assistance programme
• On site parking
• Site discounts

Full details of the role are available at: Work With Us | PHQ (portsmouthhq.org)

You can apply by emailing your CV to recruitment@portsmouthhq.org

If you are shortlisted for interview, we will contact you within a week of the closing date. Interviews will be held in early-mid May 2024.