Painter - Fort George Depot

Starting salary: £29622
Contract type: Permanent
Grade: 2
Location: Fort George
Working Hours: Full Time – 1932hrs (annualised hours)
Interviews: w/c 6th July 2026

Thank you for your interest in the Painter position with Historic Environment Scotland at Fort George, Inverness-shire. This permanent and pensionable appointment offers a diverse working environment where no two days are the same.

Your role involves planning, organising, and delivering painting and decorating repairs at Fort George and other HES sites in the scenic Highland region. From recoating sash and case windows to working on conservation projects to restore decorative coats of arms, there's a wide range of tasks that you can do. You'll closely collaborate with our team of joiners, as painting often follows their completed joinery work. Join us and be a part of preserving and beautifying these historic sites!

Benefits of joining us at Historic Environment Scotland

• Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme – 28% employer contribution
• 25 days annual leave, pro-rata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years) + 11.5 public holidays
• Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
• Support for further education and personal development
• Study leave for work related courses
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
• Free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties

Key Responsibilities of this role

To carry out conservation and routine maintenance painting works to HES monuments in the Fort George District area. This will involve a variety of different forms of traditional stonemasonry including:

• To perform conservation and regular maintenance on HES monuments in the Fort George area. This includes traditional painting upkeep for Fort George and historic sites across the Highland district.
• To work within the painting team to fulfil the painting work program at Fort George.
• Provide training and mentorship for apprentices in traditional painting skills.
• Comply with and promote HES Health and Safety Policy.
• Throughout your employment with HES you will be required to attend training courses identified to assist the work, or to comply with health and safety legislation (this may require overnight stays away from home which will be expensed by HES).
  

Key requirements of the role:

In order for you to be successful in this post, we will be looking for you to submit a cover letter which addresses how you can meet each of the essential and desirable criteria (in up to 1,200 words), using examples of where you have demonstrated these criteria previously. Please ensure that you provide real life examples for each of the criteria to be considered for this post. You can use examples of how you have met this criteria from your work life, home life, education or volunteer experience.

Essential:

• Time Served Painter
• Knowledge and experience of painting practices and techniques
• Knowledge of Traditional paint systems.
• Health & Safety awareness relating to construction works
• Full driving licence

We are dedicated to building a workforce which is reflective of diversity within Scotland. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religious beliefs, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or neurodiversity. In support of our Gaelic Language Plan, we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.

We want every candidate to have the best chance to succeed during the recruitment process. If you require your application in an alternative format, please reach out to us via email at recruit@hes.scot or call our Head Office at 0131 668 8600 and speak to a member of our People Team.

Please note that, at this time, we are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship as part of the recruitment process, therefore you must have current right to work in the UK to be considered for a post.

*Due to site maintenance, please note that we are currently experiencing problems with issuing notification emails through our recruitment platform. If you have not received notification that your application has been received, please email recruit@hes.scot. We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this.*