Kew - Engineering Compliance Manager

Kew - Engineering Compliance Manager

Engineering Compliance Manager Candidate Information Pack

Welcome Note

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a global resource for plant and fungal knowledge and the world’s leading botanic garden. We are a major visitor attraction and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We inspire and educate people to value plants using our science, gardens and collections. We do this because we want a world where plants are understood, valued and conserved – all our lives depend on plants.

We need passionate and talented individuals to help solve some of the critical challenges facing humanity today.

We have two sites, one at Kew Gardens near Richmond in London and one at Wakehurst in Sussex and over 800 employees and 500 volunteers. Our staff work and collaborate across the world. We are about to embark on a period of significant capital investment aimed at improving our existing capability, a mix of renovation and new build. These investments are a first step to addressing a long period of under-investment in our estate. Alongside this programme of capital investment we need to significantly improve our approach to maintenance. This will require more investment in planned maintenance and building robust log-term relationships with our Facilities management providers.

We look forward to discussing your plans on how we can transform our sites both at Kew and at Wakehurst.

Richard Deverell Director

Values

Care

We CARE about the future of the planet and its biodiversity

Diversity

We cherish the DIVERSITY of our plant collections and we seek diversity in our workforce and audiences

Values

Our Story

Collaboration

We work in COLLABORATION and build trusting relationships with each other and our partners

Confidence

We have CONFIDENCE and believe we can succeed

Our Story

Excellence

We strive for EXCELLENCE and try to improve continuously

Ambition

We have AMBITION. We will be bold with a strong desire to innovate and inspire

Our Mission

Our mission and strategy

We want a world where plants and fungi are understood, valued and conserved - because our lives depend on them.

Our mission here at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is to build an understanding of plants and fungi and contribute to solving some of the most critical challenges facing humanity today. Our strategy We use the power of our science and the rich diversity of our gardens and collections to provide knowledge, inspiration and understanding of why plants and fungi matter to everyone. Loss of biodiversity, climate change, rapidly-spreading pests and diseases, human population growth and the associated challenges of food security are causing unprecedented stress on human societies around the world. Plants and fungi hold the key to help solve these challenges through the fundamental life-giving processes they drive, the properties they contain, and the materials and food they provide. Through increasing understanding of why plants and fungi matter, we can unlock their potential. This is an urgent task. We face unprecedented losses of biodiversity and rapid environmental change, and risk losing the precious secrets that plants and fungi can give us before we discover them.

This is an exciting time in our history.

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