Diver - Inverkeithing, United Kingdom - Deep Sea World

Description

Job Title:
Full Time Diver


Location:
Deep Sea World - Fife


Contract Type:
Full Time, 40 hours per week on a 5/7 rota


Salary:
£19,760 + Excellent Benefits

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, hardworking Diver with a passion for aquatic animals, to join our dive team at Deep Sea world.

This role is for a full-time diver with zoological / aquarist responsibilities.

Join the team at Scotland's National Aquarium where we offer visitors the chance to experience the UK's longest underwater viewing tunnel, mysterious coral reefs, majestic sharks and our amazing seal harbour.

Over 40 displays, including the 4.5-million-litre Underwater Safari with its walkthrough tunnel, are home to hundreds of fascinating creatures, ranging from seals and seahorses to stingrays and giant sand tiger sharks.

Located beneath the world-famous Forth Rail Bridge, Deep Sea World is the place for you


Duties/ Responsibilities

Through consideration of the visitor experience, fun, education, value, conservation awareness and animal welfare - employ Zoological strategies and an enthusiastic attitude to deliver the highest standard of maintenance and public shark dive operations throughout Deep Sea World (DSW) ensuring that Visitors are satisfied and want to return.

Duties/ Responsibilities

Animal Husbandry & Welfare

• Take an active role in conducting animal feeds for our marine life, invertebrates, and seals
• Consideration for the animal welfare of all animals in our care
• Assist with diet preparation techniques to department standards
• Assisting in keeping all records of fish movements, mortalities, feeding regimes and physical parameters
• Responsible for reporting any issues regarding animals and exhibits to the Curator (duty manager in Curators absence) completing relevant paperwork.
• Responsible for minor maintenance of Life Support Systems and reporting major faults to the Curator or Displays Supervisor
• Ensure all exhibits are kept to company high standards are clean inside and out, meeting all protocols on feed, temperatures, habitat, space and natural environment.

Diving
Instructing or assisting Shark Encounters, Shark Dives, Shark Awareness, Junior Shark Encounters.

• Encounters and other functions to PADI and HSE approved standards.
• Scuba diving for shows, maintenance, training and collection.
• Ensuring that all dive related paperwork is completed by the end of each day.
• Supervising and Dive Tending for all Diving operations including training, maintenance, collection dives in a safe manner ensuring adequate supervision of divers and able to assist immediately when required.
• Adherence to Health and Safety regulations including use of PPE when required.
• Accurate logging of all dive operations including staff and public dives.
• Maintaining personal dive log as required by HSE PADI regulations
• Responsible for reporting any health and safety incidents to the Curator and Dive Officer
• Reporting Equipment Malfunctions to the Dive Supervisor/Dive Officer
• Correct rinsing, cleaning, storage, and basic maintenance of all Scuba Equipment following use.
• To satisfactorily complete dive courses agreed with the Diver Officer
• Active participation in all dive operations associated with the main tank and other exhibits including routine rescue scenarios.
• Responsible for ensuring Annual HSE Dive Medical is always up to date.
• Coordinate with Diver Officer to ensure annual PADI membership is always up to date.
• Assist with monitoring, maintenance of scuba equipment.
• Responsible for reporting any health and safety incidents to the Curator and Diver Officer.

Display Maintenance

• Assist Aquarist team to maintain exhibits to a high standard
• Assist with the intake pump as required
• Ensure the highest possible standards of cleanliness are maintained throughout the attraction both inside and out.
• Maintain clean, tidy and safe standards of all plant rooms, tool rooms, food prep areas and quarantine facilities

General Maintenance

• Cleaning Changing Rooms
• Keeping Dive Equipment areas tidy.
• Maintain clean, tidy and safe standards of food prep and public diver areas.
• Reporting shortage of consumables to line manager.
• Ensure the highest possible standards of cleanliness are maintained throughout the attraction inside and out including glass viewing areas.

Customer Service

• To be courteous, pleasant, and approachable at all times when dealing with the public in order to establish a lasting positive image of the aquarium.
• Responsible for always delivering world class customer service.
• To maintain a high satisfaction rate for diving courses either taught or assisting with.
• Helping to prepare the aquarium for opening when required.

Other Duties

• To attend training courses as required by the business and be available to assist at other sites if required.
• Active and productive input into department meetings/discussions.
• To actively