Trainee Rescue & Safety Technician

You just finished your formal education. Now the world is asking what you’re going to do with it. Here’s an idea: stop someone’s worst day from becoming their last. At SA Safety, we provide the rescue teams and support to make that a reality. From confined spaces under our cities to power plants and industrial sites across the South West, our work keeps working people alive. We’re looking for go-getters with fire in their belly and steadiness in their hands to join us and learn a trade that actually matters.

What You’ll Actually Do

Forget fetching coffee. From week one you’ll be learning alongside instructors who have done the real thing: emergency service and military rescue veterans, working-at-height rope access specialists, medics, and confined-space rescue technicians. You’ll get your hands dirty, your boots muddy, and your brain full.

Who We’re Looking For

We don’t care which courses you have completed. We care how you show up. You finish things: boring admin, a 50-metre rope coil, undertaking a full kit inventory, a tough module. You don’t quit halfway. You like people, and people tend to like you back. Our job is rescue; you’ll need patience, humour, and clear communication. You are a team player but can also work independently, remaining motivated and on task. You are reliable, passionate, willing to work hard, and committed to being the best version of you: for yourself and for the team. You’re physically capable and willing to get fitter. Heights, confined spaces, inclement weather, early starts, late finishes; it comes with the territory. You’ve got a driving licence (or are actively working toward one). You care. Genuinely. About the welder going home to his kids. About the rope tech finishing her shift. About doing the job right, even when no one’s watching.

Bonus points (not required, but we’ll raise an eyebrow and smile):

• Outdoor pursuits background
• Cadet or scouting experience
• Lifeguarding
• Mountain leadership
• Military service
• Climbing
• Kayaking
• Diving
• Any volunteer role where you’ve had to keep calm when someone else couldn’t

What we offer

• Competitive starting salary with structured pay rises as you clock qualifications and experiences
• Fully funded training pathway: every certificate you earn, we pay for
• You’ll end your first year more employable than most people finish a career
• A mentor. A real one, whose job is to make you brilliant
• Work that changes shape every week: sewerage farm one day, training centre the next, gas-fired power station the day after
• A small, tight team where your voice is heard and your ideas get tried

The Honest Bit

This isn’t a desk job. You will be cold. You will be wet. Occasionally you will carry heavy things up hills in February. You’ll work weekends when a client needs. You’ll meet people on the worst day of their working life and be calm for them when they can’t be. In return, you’ll never sit in a cubicle wondering whether your work mattered. It did. Someone went home.

Ready? Here’s How to Apply

Skip the 400-word cover letter. We don’t read them. Instead, send us:

• Your CV (one page is plenty; we care about what you’ve done, not the font)
• A short video or written note, three minutes max, answering one question: tell us about a time you helped someone when you didn’t have to
• Your availability to start and whether you drive and have the drive

Send it to: info@sasafety.co.uk. Interviews held on site in South Devon. Expect to get your boots on. Part of your interview will be practical. Please bring a waterproof.