Engineering Manager – Crich Tramway Village

Crich Tramway Village is the home of the National Tramway Museum, an Accredited Museum with a Designated collection. It operates heritage electric tramcars over one mile of standard gauge track to provide our visitors with an authentic tramway experience. Many of our tramcars have been restored in our own workshop.

The successful candidate for this post will have excellent management skills gained whilst working in a practical workshop engineering environment, be innovative, flexible, customer focussed and enthusiastic. The role will entail managing our entire Engineering department, this comprises our Facilities and Janitorial team and Restoration Workshop team and includes a diverse range of volunteers as well as employees.

Some practical work will be required, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring the maintenance of the tramway infrastructure, the tramcars themselves and broader facilities across the site. Extensive liaison will be required with our curatorial team, funders and partner organisations. This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning Museum and gain job satisfaction from helping our visitors to have a wonderful day out.

Please see the job description, person specification and application form at: https://www.tramway.co.uk/contact/vacancies

Closing date: Monday 22 January 2024