1245 - Stonemasons

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 357782**Salary**:

- £28,245 - £32,141**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Public Services & Welsh Language**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- HaverfordwestAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Cadw is the Welsh Government’s historic environment service - working for an accessible and well-protected historic environment for Wales.

We conserve Wales’s heritage to the best possible standard and help to sustain the distinctive character of Wales’s landscapes and towns. We are responsible for some of the most significant sites in the world, and we help people understand and care about their place and history - and the place of Wales in the world.

Our in-house conversation teams carry out statutory responsibilities for the conservation and maintenance of the monuments in our care. Primary functions are to undertake stone masonry conservation works, cyclical and reactive maintenance and presentation works at Cadw’s sites and monuments within a geographical area.

**What the organisation will expect?**
- You will be able to work independently on day-to-day issues, providing advice to more senior grades and supporting departmental priorities.
- You will be flexible, pro-active and self-motivated, working across teams when necessary to deliver Organisational business objectives; understanding your areas of responsibility and display awareness of the wider impact of your actions.
- You will be adaptable, flexible, open to, and accepting of change affecting you and your area of work and deal with that change efficiently and professionally.

**What your team will expect?**
- You will be able to manage your own workload and priorities to ensure that objectives are met on time and to a high quality using own initiative and decision making.
- You will invest time in your own development, acting as a role model and supporting the development of others. Providing opportunities and encouragement for individuals to develop, sharing your knowledge and experience.

**What your stakeholders will expect?**
- You will establish professional relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve results.
- You will communicate effectively both orally and in writing, using appropriate communication channels.

**Job description**:
**Key tasks**:

- Using your sound practical and theoretical knowledge of traditional masonry construction to enable you to carry out consolidation and reworking of wall tops, face work and open fragmented wall core.
- Working safely at all times and at considerable heights from properly constructed scaffolding when required.
- Recording, annotating and undertaking careful sequenced dismantling of fragile and unstable historic masonry, and carefully and accurately rebuilding and stabilising sections of masonry authentically from drawings, photographs and records.
- Fixing on site special and bespoke dressed masonry (prepared elsewhere).
- Undertaking specialist conservation techniques such as pinning, grouting, plastic mortar repairs, anchoring, shelter coating, graffiti removal, rendering etc.
- Undertaking miscellaneous building works associated with the maintenance and preservation of historic monuments and sites which are open to visitors, including winter maintenance and site presentation improvement work of a non-masonry nature.
- Assisting with manual labouring duties including mortar removal, movement of materials, mortar mixing, weather protection, etc.
- Preparing, agreeing and maintaining, with your line manager, a Performance Management, Training and Development Plan. You will undertake all mandatory training and seek out further internal and external training and development opportunities deemed applicable.
- Ensuring all Welsh Government vehicles, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), plant, access equipment and tools are compliant, safe and well maintained.
- Ensuring all Welsh Government vehicles, plant and equipment is left safe and secure at all times.
- Driving and being responsible for works vehicles as and when required.
- Ensuring that works welfare facilities are clean, hygienic, safe, tidy and compliant. Reporting risks and issues promptly and responsibly.
- In conjunction with the Works Supervisor and Conservation Works and Property Manager you will have input into the scope and extent of work packages, appropriate conservation and intervention methods, material selection, access requirements, programme, etc. You will assist in the development of Method Statements and Risk Assessments, undertake toolbox talks in rotation with colleagues and develop specific Risk Assessments to works required.
- Assisting in developing forward works programmes by identifying future potential works.
- Contributing to the promotion o