Technician

Technician (Ref: POS007029)

Hopetown Darlington opens its doors this summer as the region’s most exciting and newest visitor attraction. This ambitious project extends across a 7.5-acre site and will encompass a wagon themed play park, an immersive time travel experience ride, and will even include a gallery to watch live engineering in action. In addition, visitors can enjoy touring exhibitions, a reimagined state of the art museum and entertaining festivals and events for the whole family.
A spacious café and shop are also part of this incredible site which is steeped in Darlington’s rail heritage and will offer a family day out like no other. The venue will attract upwards of 300,000 visits annually, of which up to 100,000 are expected to be from outside the region. Hopetown Darlington is seeking inspired and driven individuals who can bring personality, energy and enthusiasm to the team.
As a Technician at Hopetown Darlington, you will be responsible for Health & Safety across the site including daily service monitoring of the Wagon Woods Play Park and external areas. This role will include general day-to-day maintenance across the whole site including reporting faults to suppliers alongside the install of exhibitions and running the technical side of all on-site events. Hopetown Darlington also includes a lot of digital interpretation and technology and this role will be looking after the maintenance and troubleshooting of all of these areas.
There will also be some basic grounds maintenance included in the role such as grass cutting, weeding, cleaning, etc. And as you will be working during the venue opening hours you may be required to deal with customer queries on occasion so a good level of customer service will be expected. You will bring a practical approach to the role which will include working in a shift pattern across the 7 day week, including every other weekend.
The rewards for working at Darlington Borough Council go beyond the salary you will receive; we have numerous additional benefits such as:

• 32 days Annual Leave (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays, with the option to purchase additional Annual Leave
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme with the option to make Additional Voluntary Contributions
• Flexi-time scheme
• Flexible working
• Generous Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave schemes
• Staff equality forums
• Green Car Leasing Scheme
• Access to a wide range of training, learning and development
• Physiotherapy service
• Confidential counselling service
• Great wellbeing offer
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Dolphin Centre Fit for Life Discounts
• Local and National retailer discounts
• Arriva Employee Travel Club

For the full range of benefits we offer, please see our “why work for us” internet page, which also includes our Total Reward Booklet and Employee Benefit Video.
https://www.darlington.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers-1/why-work-for-us/
For detailed information on this role, please refer to the Role Profile and Employee Information Sheet.
If you would like an informal discussion about the post, please contact Martin Hodgson, Technical Manager on 01325 405513.
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