Marine Engineering Quality & Technical Manager

We currently have an opportunity for a Marine Engineering Quality & Technical Manager to join our team. This role will aid the development and help ensure the delivery of the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) strategy and supporting BSS Business, Quality management, Budget & Finance Plans; as well as manage the technical input that supports BSS decision-making.

Large parts of this role will include:

• Project Management: concerning small craft/marine engineering.


• Customer Service: Interacting with the Boat Safety Scheme's many and varied stakeholders, including but not limited to standards-making bodies, Navigation Authorities, consultants and training providers, boat owners and BSS Examiners.


• Quality assurance: Overseeing internal practices and those of BSS Examiners. Developing and/or implementing quality assurance programmes (e.g. ISO 9001, EFQM), particularly in the context of small craft/marine setting.


• Audit: Undertake risk reviews and write well-crafted, detailed and technically competent Risk Review and Assessment Papers. Undertaking an analysis of a mechanical defect in the context of a small craft/marine setting.


Location & coverage

The position will be offered on a remote working basis, with a requirement to attend our main hub spaces and or other navigation & harbour authority offices throughout the UK as and when required for team working and collaborative meetings. Travel throughout the waterway network is expected in order to conduct site visits.

BSS Limited represents numerous navigation authorities throughout the UK, we have training centres at Evesham, Northampton and Norwich. We hold technical conferences in numerous locations but mainly based in Warwick. Our monthly meetings are held In Hemel Hempstead. Overnight stays are an essential part of the role.

Our regional office hubs include: Leeds, Ellesmere Port, Burnley, Newark, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Gloucester, London.

We're the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, because we believe that life is better by water. Every role across the Trust plays its part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions., The Boat Safety Scheme Limited is a public safety initiative, run as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales with company number 15501423.Its purpose is to help minimise the risk of boat fires, explosions, or pollution harming visitors to the inland waterways, the waterways' workforce and any other users. We work from Inverness to Devon, Wales to the East Anglian coast helping to identify and reduce boat related risks on canals, rivers, lochs, lakes and Broads across 16 inland navigation and harbour authority areas. See www.boatsafetyscheme.org/about-us/ for more detail.

The BSS is administered by the Canal & River Trust , the charity and navigation authority that looks after 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales. The BSS team, including this role, are employees of the Trust and we all play our part in ensuring canals and rivers are spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions.

In addition to your annual base salary of £47,000, we also offer a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits we are also open to flexible working arrangements.

• Competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, where we will double your contribution to a maximum of 10%.


• 25 days paid holiday (plus paid Bank Holidays), increasing to 30 days after 5 years.


• Home working status with 'hub' facilities available should you need the flexibility to work outside of home.


• Annual £200 personal learning & growth award to spend on any learning related activity.


• Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues, e.g. health, financial, well-being and domestic matters.


• Access to a range of employee benefits including store discounts, boating holiday discounts and holiday purchase scheme.


• 2 days paid volunteering leave per annum, allowing you to volunteer for a local community project etc.


• Free fishing facilities across our canal network.


At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.

All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.

When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.