Job Descrption
Property, facilities and grounds maintenance
• General maintenance of facilities, boardwalks, buildings, and hides
• Repairing and building timber fences, gates, barriers, signage, benches, and other woodwork
• Making bird and mammals nest boxes, and tern rafts
• Painting of metalwork and timberwork with appropriate preservatives
• Helping with exhibit maintenance
• Cleaning and maintenance of workshop and tools
• Keeping up to date with WWT news
Volunteers are an essential part of the WWT team. You'll get a warm welcome, including information on training, equipment, and anything else you need.
About You
This role will suit you if:
You have a can-do and enthusiastic attitude in completing tasks in all weathers, and are both a practical person and physically fit. An experience in carpentry, ideally with qualifications, would be very beneficial.
Your work will be supporting a great site-wide team, so good and friendly communications with other staff and volunteers and a dependable... approach will ensure that you fit in well. Much of your time will be working independently in the workshop, but you will be happy to seek out help when needed and work as part of a small team for occasional larger tasks.
Please note that this role is currently only open to those aged 18+.
About Us
We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.
Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?
Why you'll love volunteering at WWT
• Feel good knowing you are helping to restore wetlands, and our world
• Be surrounded and inspired by like-minded wetland lovers
• Hear from the people who inject their energy, passion, and expertise into wetlands and wildlife - talks, walks, webinars, tea, and cake...
• Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
• Volunteer discount on shopping and memberships
• Access to webinars and practical information to help you manage daily life
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