Purpose of the post
• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
•Responsibility for the management of Abermaw harbour. Assist the Senior Harbours Officer with work involved with other harbours in the county. Assist the Senior Beach Officer with the management of the county’s beaches.
•From time to time, or over an unspecified period, it is required for the Harbourmaster to work at any one of the Council's other harbours as is necessary while also assisting with any work on the coast..
Responsibility for functions
•Responsibility for monitoring and managing Abermaw Harbour's income and expenditure budgets. Responsibility for Petty Cash, and the harbour’s finance float. Ensure that the harbour’s income targets are reached. Ensure supervision and monitor the expenditure budget in accordance with the requirements of the Maritime and Country Parks Unit. Responsibility for supervising vehicles, boats and all of the harbours and beaches' equipment and goods.
Main duties
1. Harbour Management
•The Harbourmaster will be responsible for effective day-to-day management of the harbour in consultation with the Senior Harbour Officer including:-
•Generally consulting and communicating with the public, for example; presenting information relating to tide tables, the weather, tide and current, navigation channels, safety on the sea, fishing regulations, and a number of other related safety issues.
• Working with the the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Police, Commercial Department and the Lifeboat Institute.
•Allocate moorings within the harbour. Ensure that all moorings are inspected to the Council's standard, as well as in accordance with standard guidelines. Design and operate mooring systems within the harbour.
•Allocate boat storage sites on the Council’s land over the winter. Prepare invoices for customers. Assist with allocating mooring areas with the Council’s other harbours.
•Responsibility for safety around the Harbour. Responsibility for Health and Safety issues of the harbour’s staff by ensuring that all of the Council's safety guidelines and policies are followed.
•Clean and inspect public slipways and collect launching and registration fees.
•Responsibility for the maintenance of navigation aids, lanterns, buoys and land navigation marks in accordance with Trinity House’s standard descriptions and make sure that relevant mooring systems for all Aids to Navigation are in good order.
•Skipper the Council’s workboats to ensure management within the harbour’s jurisdiction and on the coast.
•Locate beach zone marker buoys, and ensure that Personal Watercraft and powerboats comply with the Council’s bye-laws in the harbour and on the area’s beaches.
•Prepare, display and share detailed information about the bye-laws and management of the Council's harbours and beaches.
•Collaborate and work with boat yards, sailing clubs, local fishermen etc.
•Ensure the tidiness and cleanliness of all the land and grounds in the Harbour's vicinity through conducting a daily inspection of the safety equipment, neighbouring land and facilities.
•Assist with any other relevant work involved with the management and administration of the harbour and the coast in general.
•Prepare reports for the Consultative Committees as directed.
•Deputise on behalf of other Harbourmasters as required i.e. during holidays and illness, or on any other occasion as and when required.
2. Beaches
•Assist with the management of the area’s beaches and assist with any work on the coastline.
•Assist full and part time beach officers.
•Responsibility for vehicle and boat management and ensure their maintenance and suitability for use at all times.
•Assist the Maritime and Country Parks Unit with any mooring maintenance work, navigation aids or any other works in accordance with requirements.
•Inspect the coastline as directed to ensure a safe environment by placing relevant signs in the event of hazards.
•Assist the Maritime and Country Parks Officer in any emergency that could arise e.g. oil pollution, dangerous drums on the beach, theft, vandalism etc.
3.Additional duties and tasks
•Responsibility for self-development.
•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
•Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
•Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
•Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
•Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
•Responsibility to report any worry or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
Special circumstances
•It will be required for the Officer to work most weekends during the period Easter until the end of September.
•The appointed candidate will be required work every Bank Holiday, and some nights during the Easter Holiday period until the end of September.
•It will be required for the Officer to be on call and ready to respond in emergency cases and in a crisis.
•From time to time it will be required for the Harbourmaster to work as relief Harbourmaster in any of the other Harbour's as is required.