Site Manager (Thameside)
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,472.95 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | SS17 0RN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Essex Wildlife Trust |
| Job type: | Temporary |
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Summary
We are looking for a Site Manager for our Thameside Nature Discovery Park. The position is on a 12 month fixed-term basis.
As the Site Manager, the post holder will be responsible for delivering the day-to-day operations covering administrative, retail and food and beverage, overseeing maintenance, inventory, budgets, people management (employee and volunteers), event planning and ensuring commercial targets are met.
This role is well suited to applicants with prior experience of working in a commercial, visitor attraction environment with F&B, hospitality and retail. We are looking for a site manager who can lead from the front and motivate the team to engage proactively with the audience, manage people, understand health and safety, including food preparation and storing compliance together with event planning. A passion for, or interest in wildlife would be advantageous.
This is a one year fixed-term position, working full-time, five out of seven days between Monday and Sunday all year-round including regular weekends and bank holidays. The starting salary is £32,472.95 per annum and benefits include free life assurance, parking, branded logo clothing and enhanced annual leave and sick pay provisions increasing with length of service.
To make an application, please complete an online application form on our website by 9:00am on Friday 11 July 2025. Interviews will be held on Thursday 17 July 2025. We reserve the right to close this advert early. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Our values are Impactful, Collaborative, United and Proactive.
As the Site Manager, the post holder will be responsible for delivering the day-to-day operations covering administrative, retail and food and beverage, overseeing maintenance, inventory, budgets, people management (employee and volunteers), event planning and ensuring commercial targets are met.
This role is well suited to applicants with prior experience of working in a commercial, visitor attraction environment with F&B, hospitality and retail. We are looking for a site manager who can lead from the front and motivate the team to engage proactively with the audience, manage people, understand health and safety, including food preparation and storing compliance together with event planning. A passion for, or interest in wildlife would be advantageous.
This is a one year fixed-term position, working full-time, five out of seven days between Monday and Sunday all year-round including regular weekends and bank holidays. The starting salary is £32,472.95 per annum and benefits include free life assurance, parking, branded logo clothing and enhanced annual leave and sick pay provisions increasing with length of service.
To make an application, please complete an online application form on our website by 9:00am on Friday 11 July 2025. Interviews will be held on Thursday 17 July 2025. We reserve the right to close this advert early. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Our values are Impactful, Collaborative, United and Proactive.
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