Farmoor Fishery Ranger

To operate the visitor facilities at the site for anglers, birdwatchers and other recreational users controlled by Thames Water. To help promote, manage and interpret the conservation, access, recreation and educational interest of the site to visitors, and promote Thames Water to them. To contribute towards the development of facilities and improving and monitoring performance. To support partnerships with external stakeholder groups and work closely with Operations and other staff in the Conservation, Access and Recreation section.

**What you’ll be doing as a Farmoor Fishery Ranger**
- Contribute ideas and provide support to the Fisheries Manager in planning developments, budgets, pricing and work plans. Monitor best practices in allocated topics of site management.
- Support events to promote the recreational activities of the site and interpret its interest.
- Contribute to a Site Development Plan covering general visitor use, wildlife conservation and angling
- Contribute information to promote the site, for example for press releases, award submissions, promotional articles and marketing literature, and support updates of websites and site interpretation
- Support events as required.
- Manage equipment and visitor facilities including signage, car parks, hides, equipment hired to customers, fish cages, and boats.
- Support planning of fish stocking programme, and support procurement of fish and feed and manage cages.
- Plan and implement maintenance for visitor facilities e.g. signs, fencing, toilets, paths, bird hides, managed wildlife habitat, boats and fish cages, including supervising contractors as agreed.

**What you should bring to the role**
- Recognised fisheries qualification is desirable.
- Enthusiasm to support the development of a recreational visitor site
- Good interpersonal skills including the ability to quickly build a rapport with the public.
- Willingness to be an enthusiastic ambassador for Thames Water to the public
- Enthusiasm to support course/game anglers during their visits.
- Strong team-working skills
- Reasonable level of numeracy to monitor financial and performance data and reasonable level of written communication skills to write reports
- A valid driving licence.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Competitive salary up to £35kpa
- Annual Leave - 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension - Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
- Personal Medical Assessments - Open to all once a year
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing

**Who are we?**

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

**Working at Thames Water**

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.