Join our friendly team at Atholl Estates. We have a variety of opportunities available. From being part of the team working within historic Blair Castle to joining the rural team looking after our 120,000 acre estate. We are proud to be a Living Wage employer which means we have chosen to pay our team a real Living Wage to reflect the sharp rise in living costs.
Permanent, Full-time, Salary DOE
Background to the Position
Atholl Estates covers an area of approximately 120,000 acres in Highland Perthshire, managed centrally from the Estate Office in Blair Atholl, a picturesque village close to the resort town of Pitlochry and less than 2 hours’ drive from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The estates are probably best known for Blair Castle, an iconic Scottish castle whose history dates back to the 13th century. The castle is open to visitors throughout the year, and we also have a significant number of group visits. We host corporate and public events, functions and weddings throughout the year. In conjunction with the Castle we have in excess of 200 tenanted properties, commercial buildings, a number of farmsteads.
Atholl Estates is run on a commercial basis, but with a strong element of corporate, social and environmental responsibility. The core businesses are tourism, farming, forestry, house lettings, hydro energy, conservation, field sports and property development.
The role of multi skilled joiner offers an interesting and rewarding opportunity to work within a forward-looking organisation in a beautiful part of Scotland, within the Cairngorms National Park but conveniently connected to national transport systems by rail and road, only being a 90 minute drive from Edinburgh and Inverness.
Role Objective
Working closely as part of the Property Services Team and working in collaboration with approved contractors this joinery role will help to deliver the best maintenance service to our stakeholders and tenants alike. The successful candidate will have to work both diligently and effectively within this small team to deliver a wide variety of joinery tasks and support the estate with other multi skilled activities as required. All work is completed to a high standard and in a safe manner. A hands-on approach is essential for this role, and you will be expected to be flexible in their approach to tasks, either working alone or as part of a team.
You will need to be a natural team player with a willingness to succeed and help to make the estate a success. . A close and effective working relationship with the Property Team and the wider estate as a collective is vital for both succeeding in this role and ensuring the Estates is maintained in a correct manner and the property portfolio is improved.
Job Description
We are looking for the best individuals to join our planned and reactive repairs and maintenance team, working in some of the most beautiful locations, for a fantastic employer.
For this specific role we are looking for the following criteria in an individual who can carry out a range of joinery-based maintenance repairs including but not exclusively:
In addition to the joinery skills, it would be useful to have experience and a willingness to undertake
Operate a range of plant and equipment including
The successful individual will carry out general responsive maintenance works in both the main Castle and the full range of buildings within the estate’s property portfolio. This position is demanding and fast-paced, which requires applicants to use their own initiative and be good at problem-solving while maintaining professional approach. We take pride in giving the best customer service to all of our tenants and property users.
Applicant Requirements:
Benefits:
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Deadline: 3rd Jan 2025
We’re looking for a professional, hard-working and well presented housekeeper to join our wonderful team. The purpose of this role is to assist with housekeeping and cleaning duties in all areas of Blair Castle. As frequent contact with our visitors is part of the daily routine, a smart appearance and a high standard of customer care are expected.
Main duties:
About you:
Benefits:
If you are passionate about maintaining high standards of cleanliness and creating a welcoming environment for our visitors, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to be part of our dedicated housekeeping team.
Please email your CV and covering letter to niallg@atholl-estates.co.uk by 25th November 2024. If we find a suitable candidate earlier than the deadline, we may close the application deadline early.
Hours: part-time and full-time
Seasonal contract: April – October 2025
Rate of Pay: National Living Wage
We are looking for friendly and enthusiastic individuals to join us for the 2025 season. We have opportunities to suit everyone in guiding, catering, retail, reception, caretaking and housekeeping.
Here are some of the great benefits we offer:
– A great pension scheme, Living Wage salary, sociable working hours and staff social events
– Staff discount in our restaurant and shop, plus free entry to Blair Castle and selected Atholl Estate events
– Unlimited access to ASVA cards, allowing you access to hundreds of visitor attractions across Scotland
– Overtime available in different departments and during events
– Free lunch during your shift
Meet the team at one of our open days, or send your CV to niallg@atholl-estates.co.uk
Saturday 25th January 2025 at 10am – 1pm
Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 5pm – 7pm
Hours: Part-time and full-time
Seasonal contract: April – October 2025
Rate of Pay: National Living Wage
We are looking for friendly and enthusiastic individuals to join us for the 2025 season. We have opportunities to suit everyone in reception, wardening, retail and housekeeping.
Here are some of the great benefits we offer:
– A great pension scheme, Living Wage salary, sociable working hours and staff social events
– Staff discount in our restaurant and shop, plus free entry to Blair Castle and selected Atholl Estate events
– Unlimited access to ASVA cards, allowing you access to hundreds of visitor attractions across Scotland
– Overtime available in different departments and during events
Meet the team at one of our open days, or send your CV to robind@atholl-estates.co.uk
Saturday 25th January 2025 at 10am – 1pm
Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 5pm – 7pm
Atholl Estates is looking for Lodge Cleaners and Housekeepers to help care for their beautiful and historic properties in the Tulliemet area, Dunkeld, Blair Atholl and Struan
If you are interested in joining our friendly team we would love to hear from you.
About Atholl Estates
Atholl Estates is an exceptional place, offering the best Scotland has to offer in visitor experiences, holiday accommodation, events and timber and food production. The estates are the largest provider of affordable housing to the locally employed in Highland Perthshire, producers of enough hydro electricity to power over 1300 homes and actively planting over 1000 hectares of new woodland and restoring 250 hectares of peatland annually to contribute towards the challenge of addressing climate change and biodiversity decline.
Estate Head Housekeeper Role
Location: Atholl Estates, Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, Scotland.
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Salary: £28,000
This is a working manager role, reporting to the Lodge Manager on a diverse and fascinating estate in Highland Perthshire with a wide range of self catering holiday lodges and significant caravan park. Atholl is located at the southern extent of the Cairngorms National Park, yet just over an hour’s drive to Edinburgh, with Blair Castle at its centre.
– To lead, support, recruit and train accommodation housekeeping staff, delegating to and empowering the park senior housekeeper and sporting lodge housekeepers to own their areas of responsibility.
– To take a significant role in developing the annual budget for accommodation housekeeping across the estate and then taking a leading role in ensuring expenditure is in accordance with the budget.
– To train staff to promptly identify and report defects and broken equipment.
– To manage supplier contracts and stock control.
– Ensuring consistent safe working conditions for the housekeeping team both in terms or risk assessments and control of hazardous substances.
– Forward planning of work load including staff rotas in liaison with team leaders.
– Clear and timely reporting of working hours to finance for payroll.
– Making orders for cleaning materials, establishing best value and ensuring correct payment.
– Monitor standards of laundry from our laundrette suppliers and delivery / uplift service.
– Support, when possible for castle housekeeping.
– Contributing to our mid-level management team.
Park Housekeeping
Through the park’s senior housekeeper during the period April to October inclusive and directly for the winter months:
– To ensure the park`s visitor accommodation, shower blocks and administration space is maintained in a consistently clean and presentable condition.
– Close integration with reception, administration and warden teams to ensure communication and forward planning is kept as effective and efficient as possible.
– Compliance with estate policies and park accreditations.
Ensuring that the team delivers:
o Clean and prepared static holiday homes, lodges and pods for arriving guests.
o Clean and prepared public areas and shower blocks.
o Clean and prepared reception, offices, games room, laundry and staff toilets.
o Operational maintenance of washing machines and dryers.
o Deep cleaning of shower blocks as has been routinely been the case.
o Tidy and orderly stock rooms.
– Allocation of duties to cleaning team and monitoring of performance of staff.
– Contributing to park team meetings
Estate Housekeeping
Directly managing pool and unallocated housekeepers and supporting the sporting lodge housekeepers to deliver:
– Clear training guidance related to written standards of how the property is to be cleaned and presented, both inside and defined exterior areas such as window cills, door steps, patios and balconies
– High standards of tidiness and appropriate levels of stock in our store rooms through the effective use of an inventory.
– Sufficient housekeeping stocks and ensure purchase orders are raised in a timely manner, in accordance with budget.
– High and consistent levels of cleanliness and presentation across the properties, aiming to work beside each housekeeper regularly to guide, encourage and motivate. Use photographic records of each room in each lodge to avoid changes to layout gradually developing.
– Audits of specified lodge inventories against actual inventories to ensure housekeepers are maintaining levels.
– Recognition of customer requests/complaints, communicating such with the lodge manager.
– Winter work which includes spring cleaning and any post maintenance reinstatement.
– Support for housekeepers escalating issues on occasions where maintenance or repair requirements are not being attended to.
– Train and encourage housekeepers to notice when maintenance work is required, including minor items like window cleaning or blocked gutters and to report these matters to the lodge manager.
Employee benefits
If this sounds like the role for you, apply now and seize this incredible opportunity to join our team.
Please send a CV and cover letter to Steph at stay@atholl-estates.co.uk by 31st Jan 2025.
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