Integrated Workforce Team Member

Team / Directorate: Integrated Workforce / Operation

Starting salary:  £28,932 rising to £30,955 per annum through annual increments being paid each year (pro rata for part time applicants)

Contract type: Permanent 

Work pattern:  Full time, 37 hours per week (Part time, annualised hours, compressed hours or term time working considered - discussions at interview stage welcome)

Interview Date: 13/08/2025

Post number: 200683

The role

Are you someone who enjoys working outdoors, using machinery, and making a visible difference in local communities? If so, this is your opportunity to join a passionate and skilled team working to protect people, property, and nature across South West Wales.

We’re looking for a motivated and hands-on Team Member to help deliver vital flood risk and land management work across our beautiful and diverse landscape. Based at our Plas Gwendraeth depot in Cross Hands, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving Natural Resources Wales (NRW) assets, including flood defences, woodlands, and nature reserves.

Your day-to-day work will involve operating a range of plant and machinery—from chainsaws and tractors to excavators and mowers—as well as carrying out fencing, grass cutting, small construction tasks, and habitat maintenance. You’ll record inspections digitally and contribute to the upkeep of critical flood defence structures, ensuring they remain in peak condition to reduce flood risk for local communities.

This is a practical, varied, and rewarding role for someone who enjoys working outdoors in all conditions, takes pride in their work, and wants to contribute to public safety and environmental conservation. As part of our incident response team, you’ll also respond to emergencies such as flooding, helping to safeguard people, homes, and infrastructure. A full UK driving licence (ideally with trailer towing) is essential, and standby/out-of-hours cover is part of the role on a rota basis.

You’ll be supported by an experienced and friendly team who are proud of the work they do. We offer excellent training and development opportunities to help you build new skills, gain specialist qualifications, and grow your career with us. You’ll be working across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, and Neath Port Talbot, and we’re ideally looking for someone who lives within 30 minutes of our Cross Hands depot to support incident response.

This is more than just a maintenance job—you’ll be part of a team that’s protecting the environment and helping communities thrive. If you’re reliable, safety-conscious, and ready for a role that combines physical activity, technical skills, and purpose-driven work, we’d love to hear from you.

The role follows a 9-day working pattern (with every second Friday off), and a badged vehicle is provided for travel to and from site. A full driving licence is essential. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Jamie Neil Davies at jamie.davies@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk.

Interviews will be held face to face with a location to be confirmed. 

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you will do

• You may operate machinery which may include HGV’s, Heavy and specialised plant and equipment of a high value. 
• You will be required to deliver all work in compliance with the Construction Design and Management regulations and in compliance with NRW Welfare, Health and Safety Policies and Procedures. 
• You will have the ability to work from detailed technical drawings and utility plans from service providers. 
• You will advise the Senior Supervisor and Supervisor on the most appropriate plant and equipment for the delivery of work including Out of Hours and emergency response. 
• You will be responsible for ensuring safe working practices are followed for the use of plant, machinery and equipment and will be responsible for on-site supervision of Team members in their operation of such plant and equipment. 
• You will be required to ensure plant and equipment within your responsibility is maintained and operated in compliance with all relevant regulations, for example O licence, LOLER and PUWER.
• You will be required to communicate effectively with third parties which will include members of the public and landowners. 
• You may be required to implement a planned programme of habitat management for NNR's including maintaining and checking the infrastructure of NNR's. 
• You will be part of an emergency response team required to operate plant, machinery and equipment during flood incident response to enable the effective operation of flood risk assets. 
• As a senior team member, you will often take the lead on site and mentor less experienced team members or contractors.
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development  through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

1.    Several years relevant operational experience. 
2.    NVQ L2 Environmental Conservation or equivalent. 
3.    One or more of the following (to include evidence such as log book, completed workbook, specialist plans etc): Intermediate chainsaw operative to include multiple windblown trees. (include CS34 etc) Winching operations. 
4.    Operator of specialist heavy plant & machinery. CPCS or other recognised licence. 
5.    Conservation Management knowledge and understanding. 
6.    Significant incident management experience: Flood/Industrial fire/oil spill/ silt management etc. Intermediate ICT skills. E.g. AMX.
7.    Full UK driving licence ideally to include cat B + E. (trailer towing) 
8.    Basic literacy and numeracy skills are required for the role. GCSE grade C (or equivalent) in English and Maths are essential.

Welsh language level requirements

• Essential: Level A1 – Entry level (able to use and understand simple, basic phrases and greetings, no conversational Welsh)

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Benefits 

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
• generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
• commitment to professional development
• health and wellbeing benefits and support
• weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose

See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

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We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.  

We are committed to equal opportunities and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.  

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards.  Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills. 

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