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City of Lincoln
City of Lincoln
A unique, heritage experience filled with historical arts and culture
The city is crowned by Lincoln Cathedral, one of Europe's finest examples of Gothic architecture, which sits across a picturesque cobbled square from Lincoln Castle, built by William the Conqueror in the 11th century. The engineering city, famous for inventing the tank during World War 1, is still innovating and building. The engineering school at the University of Lincoln is the first in the UK for more than 20 years, built in partnership with world famous company Siemens, and the Science and Innovation Park is home to state of the art research and laboratory facilities, with technology, chemistry, pharmaceutical and medical science at its heart. Lincoln is proud to boast two Universities; Bishop Grossteste University, with a vast curriculum, are experts in education and have been training teachers since 1862! Did you know that Lincoln is the only place in the world where you can find original copies of both the 1215 Magna Carta and the 1217 Charter of the Forest? That makes it a hugely popular visitor destination, and the local hospitality and catering industry is booming.
Keep scrolling to read about some of the fantastic businesses that you could work in.
Countryside North
There are hundreds of different jobs you could do in Lincolnshire. Here are just a few …
Architect
Architects design new buildings and the spaces around them, and work on the restoration and conservation of existing buildings.
Architect
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
You'll need to complete:
- a 5-year degree in architecture recognised by the Architects Registration Board (ARB)
- 2 years' professional experience
Entry requirements vary, so check these with course providers directly. You'll also usually need a portfolio of your drawings, sketches and photographs to get onto a course.
The ARB has information on courses.
If you're already working in an architectural practice but can't study full-time, you could do the RIBA studio (previously called the RIBA examination for office-based candidates).
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has more information on becoming an architect.
2. Skills required
You'll need:
- design and drawing skills
- a methodical, logical approach
- analytical skills
- excellent maths skills
- communication and negotiating skills
- IT skills
3. What you'll do
You'll create designs for clients and you'll oversee building projects from start to finish.
Your day-to-day tasks could include:
- creating detailed technical plans using computer-aided design software
- creating a plan, following building laws and safety regulations
- working towards budgets
- managing construction
- choosing materials
- checking building work and progress
- On larger jobs, you're likely to be part of a team alongside other architects and architectural technicians or technologists.
4. Salary
Starter: £27,500 to £35,500 (qualified)
Experienced: £34,750 to £44,000 (senior architect)
Highly Experienced: up to £90,000 (associates, partners and directors)
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You'll usually work 35 to 40 hours, Monday to Friday.
You'll work in an office or studio. You'll often travel to sites and have meetings with clients, planning departments and builders. When visiting sites, you'll wear protective clothing.
6. Career path and progression
If you're working for a private architectural firm, you may be able to move up to become a partner or associate.
In public sector roles, with experience you could move into a lead architect job.
You could also work on projects as a freelance consultant, or set up your own business.
You may get opportunities to work overseas.
Salary Guide
Minimum: £27500
Maximum: £90000
Journalist
Journalists research and write news articles and features for a wide variety of publications on different platforms.
Journalist
Role Description
Magazine Journalist:
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- going to meetings to plan the content of the magazine
- suggesting ideas for articles
- interviewing and researching to collect information for articles
- writing articles to suit the magazine’s style
- keeping up-to-date with developments and trends in the magazine's subject area
- working as a critic, reviewing things like films, food or concerts
Newspaper Journalist
You could be reporting on council meetings and school fêtes for a local paper, or on general elections and world events for the national press.
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- investigating a story as soon as it breaks
- following up potential leads and developing new contacts
- interviewing people face-to-face and over the phone
- attending press conferences
- recording meetings and interviews using recording equipment or shorthand
- coming up with ideas for stories and features
- writing up articles in a style that will appeal to the reader
- sub-editing other reporters' articles for publication
- writing up articles for online publication
Broadcast Journalist
You could be reporting on council meetings and school fêtes for a local paper, or on general elections and world events for the national press.
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- investigating a story as soon as it breaks
- following up potential leads and developing new contacts
- interviewing people face-to-face and over the phone
- attending press conferences
- recording meetings and interviews using recording equipment or shorthand
- coming up with ideas for stories and features
- writing up articles in a style that will appeal to the reader
- sub-editing other reporters' articles for publication
- writing up articles for online publication
Salary Guide
Minimum: £13000
Maximum: £40000
Nurse
Nurses give care, advice and support to adults who are sick, injured or have physical disabilities.
Nurse
Role Description
Skills required
You'll need:
- excellent organisational and time management skills
- good practical skills
- the ability to inspire confidence and trust in people
- the ability to remain calm under pressure
- good teamwork skills and the ability to work on your own initiative
- excellent listening and communication skills
What you'll do
You'll work in hospitals, nursing homes, health centres, clinics or prisons.
In an NHS hospital you could work in accident and emergency, cardiac rehabilitation, outpatients, neonatal nursing or an operating theatre.
Your day-to-day duties could include:
- taking temperatures, blood pressures and pulse rates
- helping doctors with physical examinations
- giving drugs and injections
- cleaning and dressing wounds
- setting up drips and blood transfusions
- using medical equipment
- checking patients' progress
- working with doctors to decide what care to give
- advising patients and their relatives
- handling confidential information
Salary Guide
Minimum: £22000
Maximum: £48000
Scaffolder
Scaffolders put up and take down scaffolding, to allow workers to reach the external higher levels of buildings safely.
Scaffolder
Role Description
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- unloading scaffolding from a lorry
- creating a stable base on the ground
- putting up scaffolding poles and attaching horizontal tubes to them
- fixing scaffolding to a building
- laying planks across scaffolding for workers to walk on
- fixing guard rails and safety nets
- taking down scaffolding after a job
Salary Guide
Minimum: £14000
Maximum: £30000
HGV Driver
Large goods vehicle (LGV) and heavy goods vehicle (HGV) lorry drivers transport and deliver goods between suppliers and customers.
HGV Driver
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
You'll need to be over 18 and hold a full car driving licence.
You can apply for a job as a trainee with a freight company or complete an LGV course with a private training provider. You'll also need a Certificate of Professional Competence (Driver CPC).
You could get into this job through an apprenticeship.
2. Skills required
You'll need:
excellent driving skills and road safety knowledge
the ability to work alone and concentrate for long periods
a polite manner with customers
the ability to complete record sheets and paperwork accurately
3. What you'll do
You'll drive commercial vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, including articulated lorries, tankers, transporters and trailer wagons. You'll work from depots, distribution centres and warehouses, carrying goods all over the UK and overseas.
Apart from driving, your duties may include:
planning delivery schedules and routes with transport managers
supervising or helping to load and unload goods
making sure loads are safely secured
following traffic reports and changing your route if necessary
completing delivery paperwork and log books
You may also deal with basic maintenance, like oil, tyre and brake checks before and after journeys.
4. Salary
Starter: £18,500 to £22,000
Experienced: £23,000 to £28,000
Highly Experienced: £27,000 to £35,000
Overtime may be available.
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You'll usually work up to 42 hours a week. Overtime may be available but there are strict laws about the amount of hours you can spend driving between rest breaks.
Most of your time would be spent on the road, and you would drive day and night in all weather conditions.
Overnight stays may be necessary.
6. Career path and progression
You could take further training and gain an ADR (Advisory Dangerous Goods by Road) Certificate to drive hazardous goods like toxic chemicals by tanker.
With experience, you could train to become an LGV instructor, freight transport planner or move into management.
Salary Guide
Minimum: £18500
Maximum: £35000
Barista
Baristas make and serve coffee in cafes, coffee shop chains, restaurants and hotels.
Barista
Role Description
Skills required
You’ll need:
- an outgoing personality
- excellent customer service skills
- to work well under pressure
- attention to detail
What you'll do
You’ll be responsible for serving customers and making up their orders. Your role is to make sure that customers enjoy their food and drink in a pleasant environment.
Your day-to-day duties might include:
- preparing the coffee shop ready for opening
- taking customer orders and payments
- grinding fresh coffee beans
- preparing and serving sandwiches and cakes
- cleaning and tidying work areas, equipment and coffee machines
- creating displays of stock
- doing stock checks and ordering new stock
- cleaning and tidying the coffee shop before closing
Salary Guide
Minimum: £8000
Maximum: £20000
Purchasing manager
Also known as Procurement manager. Purchasing managers buy equipment, goods and services for their company.
Purchasing manager
Role Description
Skills required
You'll need:
- financial skills
- excellent negotiating and networking skills
- leadership and management skills
What you'll do
Your day-to-day tasks may include:
- deciding what goods, services and equipment are needed
- monitoring and forecasting stock levels
- researching and finding new products and suppliers
- assessing tenders from potential suppliers
- negotiating prices and agreeing contracts
- keeping up to date with market trends
In larger organisations you may run a purchasing department and lead a team of buyers and administrators. In smaller companies, you may combine purchasing with other management duties.
Salary Guide
Minimum: £20000
Maximum: £60000
Chemical engineer
Chemical engineers develop ways to turn raw materials into everyday products.
Chemical engineer
Role Description
1. Entry requirements
You’ll normally need an Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) or Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) accredited BEng degree in chemical, process or biochemical engineering.
If you have a degree in a different branch of engineering, or a related subject like chemistry or polymer science, a postgraduate qualification in chemical or process engineering may increase your chances of finding work.
You could also take an integrated master’s qualification, like an MEng, to prepare you for further postgraduate study like a PhD or EngD.
Some universities offer a foundation year for people without qualifications in maths and science.
Cogent Skills, IChemE, IET and Whynotchemeng have more information on becoming a chemical engineer.
2. Skills required
You’ll need:
- maths and science skills, particularly chemistry
- good problem-solving and analytical skills
- planning and organisational ability
- excellent IT skills
- the ability to manage projects, budgets and people
3. What you'll do
You’ll be involved in the design, manufacture and operation of processes that turn raw materials into domestic and industrial products.
You could work in a range of industries, like:
- food and drink
- pharmaceuticals
- textiles
- oil and gas
- minerals
- energy and water
- biotechnology
You may also research and develop new or improved products.
If you work in research and development, you’ll:
- test new ways to develop products in the lab
- use computer models to work out the safest and most cost-effective production methods
- plan how to move lab tests into a pilot production phase, then on to large-scale industrial processing
- develop methods to deal with by-products and waste materials in a safe way
In manufacturing, you’ll:
- work with plant designers to create equipment and control instruments for the production process
- help to oversee the day-to-day operation of the processing plant
- monitor production and deal with problems
- work closely with quality control and health and safety managers
You could also work in biochemical engineering, developing anything from new medicines like vaccines and stem cell therapies, to sources of sustainable energy like biofuels.
4. Salary
Starter: £29,000
Experienced: £55,000
Highly Experienced: £60,000 (senior chartered chemical engineer)
These figures are a guide.
5. Working hours, patterns and environment
You’ll usually work 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. You may need to work overtime to meet project deadlines. In processing and manufacturing, you might work shifts, including weekends, evenings and nights.
You could be based in a lab, an office or a processing plant. In some environments you may need to wear protective clothing or use equipment like safety glasses, ear protectors or a hard hat.
6. Career path and progression
With experience, you could progress to senior process or design engineer, research and development manager. You could go on to be a plant manager, or overall operations manager.
You could also move into consultancy work.
Salary Guide
Minimum: £29000
Maximum: £60000
Employers in City of Lincoln
WSP
WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms.
WSP
We have 7,640 talented people in a network of offices across the UK united by our values: collaboration, innovation, pride, and passion for our work. We engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.
Our Lincoln office forms part of the Lincolnshire Highways Alliance Design Consultancy, working alongside Lincolnshire County Council to develop a wide range of ongoing highways schemes including Lincoln Eastern Bypass, Grantham Southern Relief Road, Spalding Western Relief road and the proposed North Hykeham Relief Road.
WSP is proud to support development and growth throughout Lincolnshire; and are delighted to have the opportunity to share our work on the World of Work website.
The Bronze Pig
We hand pick and train our staff to support us in ensuring clients are welcome in our unique restaurant. We all get involved in the cleaning and washing up... this is hard work, but very rewarding.
The Bronze Pig
Throughout time the boar has been a potent symbol of courage and prowess to many cultures around the world. So all in all, we thought it would fit nicely as the name for our restaurant.
We hand pick and train our staff to support us in ensuring that you are welcome in our unique restaurant, enjoy quality service and savour our dishes in a relaxed atmosphere.
Our meats and vegetables are sourced locally, our fish comes from renewable sources and from the British shores whenever feasible. Our choice of wines is based on the recommendation of a sommelier to offer choices from the old world and a couple from the new world that would enhance our dishes.
The name “The Bronze Pig” unites Pompeo’s Italian National origins, the celebration of a long standing and loyal friend with a profound love of pigs and boars and the fact the we are based in Lincoln.
Simons Group Ltd
Established in 1944, Simons has been offering property solutions tailored to specific needs for over 70 years.
Simons Group Ltd
Established in 1944, Simons has been offering property solutions tailored to specific needs for over 70 years. We're a long established, family owned business based in Lincoln; focusing on retail, distribution and health.
Building Greener is our way of making sure we consider the pillars of sustainability in everything we do.
We have annual reduction targets for energy, waste, water, carbon, biodiversity, procurement and we aim to send the absolute minimum of waste to landfill.
Rilmac Group
As a long established, ambitious company, Rilmac are always on the lookout for talented people to join our team of professionals.
Rilmac Group
The world around us is always changing. New buildings are designed, new developments planned, old buildings redeveloped and modernised. Modern machinery is required for transport options, to build our digital devices, and to create power for our digital world. This world needs protecting, we must use energy wisely, avoid changing our environment, and remove all toxins and hazardous waste.
There are many businesses in the industries building the modern world. The Rilmac Group of Companies for example, focussing on construction and steel engineering nationwide from our headquarters in Lincoln.
Rilmac has grown from humble beginnings of three men and a van in 1957 to become a market leader of Asbestos Services, Fabrication, Insulation and Scaffolding.
Vision Express
Without seamless teamwork, we just couldn’t deliver the outstanding level of customer service for which we’re known. We respect professional standards and each other. We always do what we say we’ll do and help out wherever we can.
Vision Express
It’s now been nearly three decades since we opened the very first Vision Express store in Gateshead’s Metro Centre.
We’ve come a very long way since then. But our guiding principle remains the same. And that’s to provide an unparalleled level of customer service. A truly individual service, delivered in a professional yet welcoming environment where vision is taken seriously.
Through organic growth and acquisition there are now 593 Vision Express stores across the UK, Jersey and the Republic of Ireland – from big city destinations to local high street stores. Following our recent acquisition of Tesco Opticians, you’ll now find us in Tesco stores too.
Passion
We’re passionate about service, our products and our workplace. We’re positive, enthusiastic and engaging. We always put our customers first and put 100% into making sure they look and feel great.
Welcoming
Providing a genuine, caring service, we make everyone feel welcome. We engage customers with warmth, sincerity and expertise – taking a real interest in their individual needs and taking time to explain our service and products.
Seamless Teamwork
Without seamless teamwork, we just couldn’t deliver the outstanding level of customer service for which we’re known. We respect professional standards and each other. We always do what we say we’ll do and help out wherever we can.
Learning to succeed
Training and development at Vision Express will support your ongoing success in what could be a rewarding and unique career. It will also see you become an expert at delivering a truly individual service.
Learning here is interesting, interactive and informative. It’s also fun. Whatever your role when you start, we’ll equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to take your career in the right direction.
Starting with a thorough introduction to our business, we’ve put in place a number of training programmes designed to recognise and realise true potential. Their effectiveness is reflected in the fact that nearly 80% of our managers are in place through internal promotion.
The 5% Club
We’re proud to be backing the 5% Club – a nationwide initiative which sees employers commit to having at least 5% of their workforce aged between 16 and 24 on a structured training programme. We’re proud to say that the figure at Vision Express is now closer to 5.5%. We’re the first retailer to promise to provide support and training for our graduates, apprentices and sponsored students.
Apprenticeships
For enthusiastic young people we offer a 13-month apprenticeship programme that will give them lots of useful skills and valuable retail experience, plus a Level 2 qualification in Optical Retail and the foundations of a successful future career.
Lincolnshire Co-operative
The word 'co-operative' describes a method of business and there are many different co-ops across the world.
Lincolnshire Co-operative
Lincolnshire Cooperative is based in Lincoln. A co-op is owned and democratically controlled by its members. The members are the main people who benefit from the business. Co-ops vary in size, structure and even what type of work they carry out.
Co-ops with retail at their heart are probably the best known, but you can also find co-ops specialising in housing, farming, utilities and much more.
As one of the most profitable independent consumer co-operatives in the UK, we're proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from our family of businesses. Lincolnshire Co-op employs over 2,800 people throughout Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Norfolk and we're always growing.
As a co-operative, we're committed to the ethical principles which are important to our members, such as Fairtrade and sourcing products locally.
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service
Our core purpose is to help individuals, particularly at transition points in their lives, improve their mental and physical health and well-being and choose healthier lifestyles.
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service
Who we are – strengthening communities, supporting individuals
Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS) promotes volunteering through its four accredited Volunteer Centres - in Boston, Manby (near Louth), Spalding and Grantham, matching would-be volunteers with opportunities and supporting volunteer involving organisations to recruit, train and retain volunteers.
LCVS is a charity working to support the health and wellbeing of communities and individuals.
It supports community groups to get established, survive and thrive by providing help and guidance with paperwork and governance, resources, sourcing funding and finding and training volunteers.
In addition, LCVS delivers and enables health-related community projects.
Find LCVS at www.lincolnshirecvs.org.uk
Lincolnshire Action Trust
Lincolnshire Action Trust is driven by a team of caring, passionate and experienced individuals.
Lincolnshire Action Trust
Lincolnshire Action Trust is driven by a team of caring, passionate and experienced individuals.
We are a charity within the Criminal Justice System and have projects at several prisons in the area as well as projects supporting women and children, our website gives information on all of our projects together with some case studies: http://latcharity.org.uk/
Gadsby's Bakery
Our dedicated team sell, produce, pack and deliver the 80,000 retail items we sell every day, six days a week.
Gadsby's Bakery
Southwell is our home, and has been from the very start. For over 50 years we’ve been kneading, beating and mixing, and our range has grown into a wide and varied selection of traditional and continental breads, hand finished confectionary and irresistible cream cakes.
Our dedicated team sell, produce, pack and deliver the 80,000 retail items we sell every day, six days a week. We also keep our ovens fired up 24 hours a day to ensure only the freshest quality baked goods are delivered to our customers.
You'll find our range on the shelves of stores from Liverpool to Grimsby, Sheffield to Peterborough, and in over 230 co-op food stores throughout Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Carrington Communications
No day is the same in PR. It’s a great profession to get into for anyone looking to turn their curiosity and communication skills into a career.
Carrington Communications
Carrington Communications is Lincoln's first truly digital PR agency, providing a range of PR services to startups and SMEs across Lincolnshire and the East Midlands. Founded in 2016, our fast-growing, results-driven agency now employs a team of PR professionals and works with more than 20 organisations.
We create campaigns that are built on great ideas, communicated to the right audiences and through the right channels to help its clients grow. We combine time-honoured PR and journalistic skills with the latest SEO techniques and industry know-how.
Carrington currently employs three PR professionals who bring a wealth of industry experience and expertise to the agency. Our team is solely made up of senior members of staff with backgrounds in broadcast journalism, international PR and digital marketing. We’re excellent communicators and writers who are dedicated to helping our wide range of clients to get their stories in the media and build relationships with the people that matter to them.
Being a young agency, the experience that individuals can bring to the team is key and industry experience or a degree-level qualification in public relations, journalism, marketing or similar is essential for PR executives. Journalism and PR are closely linked and two members of the team have Masters degrees in Journalism as well as undergraduate degrees in Politics and Law, going on to pursue careers in in-house PR, agency work and broadcast journalism before joining our team.
At Carrington, we're driven by PR that’s profitable. We love great coverage (and coffee!), have a great atmosphere in the office and take everyone's ideas on board. As a startup agency we work flexibly and there's plenty of room for growth professionally and personally which we believe is a real benefit for any new starter. Similarly, as a small team we have the luxury of working on clients that we enjoy and can put ourselves forward for tasks that enable us to play to our strengths.
We use the latest and greatest digital tools for both work and admin, creating a streamlined way of working that's simple, future proof and forward thinking. Being based in Lincoln is also great, because we're on the doorstep of other startups and long-standing businesses, while being able to travel easily to rural locations, larger cities and even London.
PR isn’t the glamorous show-biz profession people think it is, but it is a great industry for creativity. No day is the same in PR. It’s a great profession to get into for anyone looking to turn their curiosity and communication skills into a career. It’s a dynamic, fast-paced industry that keeps us on our toes.
PR is also unique because there are plenty of opportunities for growth and progression. Just as society and the media landscape is changing rapidly, the PR is also changing and evolving quickly too as we make sure that we can get our clients the best coverage.
This creates an exciting environment to work in, especially for people who love to have their finger on the pulse. Working for a range of clients means that in this industry, there’s plenty of opportunity to tap into current affairs which creates a real buzz.
Destec Engineering
An experienced design staff provide supporting calculations and stress analysis for our products and use AutoCad, Inventor, Cosmos M finite element analysis and other in-house developed computer programmes.
Destec Engineering
Destec was formed in 1969, by the present owners of the company, and it has remained a Private Limited Company ever since.
For over 40 years of trading, the company has developed both products and services to industry, particularly where design and supply is concerned, with ‘High Pressure Containment’ and ‘On-Site Machining’ being the specialist lines.
An experienced design staff provide supporting calculations and stress analysis for our products and use AutoCad, Inventor, Cosmos M finite element analysis and other in-house developed computer programmes. They are actively engaged in the design and development of our products. This includes building and operating test rigs.
Our principle clients are within the Oil, Chemical and Petrochemical related industries, Power Generation, Steel, Marine and others.
The company offers an excellent package that depends on ability and experience and includes a bonus scheme.
P3
We absolutely love what we do, and we’re passionate about the way we do it, and we’re looking for people who share this attitude.
P3
We’re a charity and social enterprise, made up of passionate people, who care about people. We exist to improve lives and communities by delivering services for socially excluded and vulnerable people to unlock their potential and open up new possibilities.
Our vision is that every person has the opportunity to be a full and valued member of a society where social exclusion and isolation no longer exist. It’s that simple!
Everything we do is centred on our core values - being innovative, different, creative, focused entirely on being helpful in everything we do, being passionate about the people we work with, our determination to tackle problems that others won’t, and working together as one team.
P3 services are highly diverse; we operate housing services, community-based support, advice and guidance service
Apprenticeships too!
At P3, we have a track record in supporting apprentices to gain their qualifications, on-the-job experience and in many cases, go on to permanent employment.
Not only will you get training as you work, you will also be able to study for a qualification in your chosen subject; earning while you are learning. We will provide you with a buddy who will support you while you settle into the role. They will be an existing member of staff who has experience in the area that you are working in.
Did You Know?
Did you know?
The port of Grimsby is one of the UK’s leading car ports
Did You Know?
Did you know?
The port of Grimsby is one of the UK’s leading car ports
