Trails and Facilities Supervisor

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

- 352462**Salary**:

- £27,941- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer- Pay Band 6a**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- FC - Forestry England**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Cannock Chase Forest, Birches Valley, Rugeley, WS15 2UQAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Central Forest District has responsibility for the management of some 30,000ha of the Nation’s Forests within a triangle formed by Liverpool, Hull, and Milton Keynes. This gives rise to a large diversity of users, customers, neighbours, and pressures, all of which are interacting on a varied backdrop of land uses.

The district has a large resident population and manages 6 significant visitor centres as well as three Community Woodland areas and a high number of other accessible woodlands. We have hundreds of volunteers helping across the district contributing over 50,000 hours of volunteer time each year.

The post will be based at Cannock Chase Forest Centre, within the county of Staffordshire, located north of Birmingham. The forest centre sees approximately 400,000 visitors per year undertaking numerous outdoor activities. The site visitor facilities include car parks, toilets, Grounds cafe, GoApe, Cannock Chase Cycle Centre, play areas, waymarked walking, horse riding, running and cycling trails and several Public Rights of Way.

**Job description**:
The role is to ensure consistency in safety and quality standards of all the forest facilities and trails, according to the principles of the Visitor Safety Group. The role will also be supporting the running of the Forest Centre, which has a small team required to cover the forest centre 364 days a year, therefore the successful applicant will work as part of a seven-day roster, and including regular weekends, public holidays, evenings and out-of-hours events.

**Key work areas**:
**Facility Management**
- Take overall responsibility for all facility management at Cannock Chase Forest in compliance with PPG 62
- Ensure that all inspections have been carried out by the team and that all paperwork, spread sheets and processes have been completed
- Ensure that all remedial works are carried with the necessary time frame
- Oversee the team job list systems, and ensure works get prioritised according to Visitor Safety Group risk matrix
- Co-ordinate the annual hazardous tree inspections and submit PPG1 form to Sustainable Land Management (SLM) team. Supervise arb/chainsaw operations working with SLM team.

**MTB Trails**
- Carry out operational inspections of all walking and cycling trails, plus others
- Manage unauthorised trails in compliance with the guidance, carrying out inspections of Stile Cop and Tackeroo trails

**Contract Management**

Oversee and supervise contractors, which includes producing job sheets and maps, completing site visit notes and ensuring safety documents are in place. It will also include being involved with the procurement process.
- Support the Forest Centre Manager with the management of civils on site.
- Support MTB framework. This involves carrying out surveys to estimate cost requirement of civils work for tender, support with completing for tender, supporting with contractor bidding days, scoring the tenders, support with supervision and paperwork, measuring and costings.

**Volunteer Management**
- Lead on contacting new leads on Connections with an outline of volunteering sessions and send out registration forms and volunteer agreements via Connections.
- Organise and plan monthly Sunday MTB volunteering sessions using Microsoft Bookings system and writing job sheets, risk assessments, maps and organising welfare as required.
- Organise and plan mid-week forest maintenance volunteering sessions as and when needed using Microsoft Bookings system and writing job sheets, risk assessments, maps and organising welfare as required.
- Assist with planning and organising litter-picking volunteering sessions.
- Communicate with volunteers about upcoming sessions and updates on the trails.
- Liaise with Chase Trails Volunteer Group about stock of tools and order where necessary.
- Create jobs on Connections and assist with inputting all hours volunteered onto connections.
- Upload completed job sheets and signed risk assessments onto job on Connections.
- Issue volunteer kits, parking passes and uniform as volunteers complete their 30 hours and keep record of what kit issued and when.
- Stock check and re-stock of brew kit, snacks, uniform, volunteer kits and PPE for volunteers as required.

**Harvesting and Civils Works around MTB trails**
- Oversee planning, installation, inspection and removal of trail diversions and MTB trail closures around harvestin