Beamish Museum
Head of Engineering
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Beamish Museum, the 2025 winner of the Museum of the Year award
Beamish Museum, the 2025 winner of the Museum of the Year award, is a renowned open air museum situated in north east England and which attracts over 800,000 visitors per annum to its 400-acre site.
The museum is well-known for its extensive transport collection, with working railways, electric tramway, a busy vintage bus network and a wide variety of regionally significant motor vehicles and industrial objects – many of which are in, or aspire to be in, working order.
The museum’s ambition is to operate the most comprehensive regional collection of transport artefacts in the World, and to support and sustain this ambition and the present intensive operation, the engineering team works hard in the background to achieve this.
We now have this exciting new post, to work closely with the Director of Development – Transport, Industry & Design, and which will take these aspirations forward. Leading and developing the team and facilities that will ensure these goals are enduring and that the fantastic collection of working transport artefacts are maintained and restored to the very highest standards of safety and historical accuracy.
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Applicants may find reference to www.beamishtransportonline.co.uk useful in exploring the diverse areas of work that are carried out by the team, some of the challenges that it faces and meets on a daily basis and the priority of safety and a curatorial rigour that underpin the museum’s international status as a renowned world-class open-air museum and 2025 winner of the Museum of the Year award.
Some of the great benefits of working with us
- Joining a fantastic, friendly team of over 400 staff and 400 volunteers.
- Museum pass, allowing free entry for yourself and three other people.
- Work within a beautiful and unique location a 300-acre site that represents the diverse histories and heritage of the north.
- Discount on catering and retail.
- Free Parking.
- Bike2Work scheme.
- 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) and increasing to 30 days after 5 years.
- 2 wellbeing days for all employees.
- Work for a charity in the heritage sector where all profits are reinvested into further developing the museum, its people and reaching our communities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Staff and volunteer social events throughout the year.
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All new appointments are subject to the receipt of satisfactory references, and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
We recruit based on aptitude, positive attitude and potential, and work to ensure people from all backgrounds have the opportunity to work within the heritage sector. This is prioritised above academic qualifications and we support non-traditional routes into work. We recognise and value transferable skills and diverse experiences as a form of expertise. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as well as applications from, LGB, Trans and non-binary candidates as underrepresented people within the museum.
Note to applicants: Please try to show in your application how you specifically meet the requirements in the about you section and refer to Our Recruitment Process for further guidance on completing your application form.
Should you have any queries with regards to the role or the recruitment process, please do contact us at recruitment@beamish.org.uk or 0191 370 4335
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