Whether you're properly on the hunt, half-looking out of spite, or just scrolling jobs the way other people browse Rightmove, there's a decent spread about this week. A couple are very much for the people who like a spreadsheet and a sensible shoe, while others involve boilers, breakdowns, drainage, call-outs and the general business of keeping the world from falling to bits. So, something for most moods then.

What follows is a wander round the local jobs patch, with roles in Wells, Glastonbury, Street and Shepton Mallet — because round here "local" has always been a flexible concept, especially if the bus timetable has let you down again.

For the people who can face a ledger without crying

If you're the sort who enjoys order, balance and the quiet thrill of getting numbers to behave, this Accounts and Team Manager role in Wells could be worth a look. It's a permanent post with a reputable chartered accountants firm, paying between £35,000 and £45,000 depending on experience, and they'll consider part-time or full-time hours. You'd be supporting one of the directors, overseeing accounts and tax services, managing a team and generally being the grown-up in the room. Very much one for someone with ACA, ACCA, CTA, ATT or AAT behind their name and enough practice experience to know when someone's "quick question" is about to eat half your afternoon.

There's also a Client Manager job in Wells, which is another accountancy role despite Nub News filing it under customer service, because categories are clearly more of a suggestion than a rule. This one pays £38,000 to £50,000, permanent, with flexible part-time or full-time hours on offer. The role centres on managing a client portfolio, handling accounts, tax and advisory work, and overseeing the wider team. In other words, less "answering phones in a headset", more "keeping local businesses on the rails".

Property, people and keeping things ticking over

Over at Adam Lock Lodge on Glastonbury Road, Churchill Estates Management is after a Lodge Manager in Wells. It's a permanent Monday-to-Friday job, 9am to 5pm, paying £25,000 a year plus benefits. For anyone who likes a role with routine, responsibility and plenty of face-to-face contact, this has the makings of a solid one. Retirement living jobs are always a bit of a balancing act between practical management and being the calm, competent person everyone ends up relying on — which, let's be honest, is either your thing or your worst nightmare.

For those who'd rather fix the problem than hold a meeting about it

There's good money on offer for a Site Services Engineer in Wells, with a salary of £45,000 to £50,000 plus bonus, overtime, training, pension and healthcare. It's a permanent, days-based role in food manufacturing, and they want someone with site services experience across things like boilers, water treatment, air con or refrigeration in an FMCG setting. It sounds like the kind of post for someone who enjoys being trusted to get on with it, which is increasingly rare in a world obsessed with dashboards and "alignment".

Strode College in Street is also recruiting a Facilities & Maintenance Team Leader, permanent, paying £26,161 to £27,435, with extra on-call payments of £150 per rota week and £60 per call-out. This one is very much a frontline job: keeping the place safe, orderly and functioning properly for staff, students and visitors. Not glamorous, perhaps, but essential — a bit like the person in the village Facebook group who actually knows when bin day is.

And in Shepton Mallet there's an Electrical Maintenance Engineer role paying up to £50,000 on a permanent 4-on, 4-off days-and-nights shift pattern. It's in FMCG, in one of those heavily automated factories where everything is impressive until it stops working at 2.13am. They want strong electrical fault-finding skills, PLC experience and a recognised qualification, and there's a decent benefits package thrown in. Not exactly a gentle life, but if you like machinery more than people, it may suit you beautifully.

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Out on the road, on the tools, or somewhere muddy

For civil engineering types, there's a Site Engineer contract in Glastonbury paying £340 a day. This is one for people with a solid background in groundworks and civils — setting out, drainage, foundations, highways, flood alleviation and all the rest of the glamorous muddy business that keeps infrastructure standing up. Contract work won't be for everyone, but for the right person it's a strong day rate and close enough to home not to require a packed suitcase and existential crisis.

Also in Glastonbury, there's a Field Service Engineer role paying £35,000 to £50,000, with overtime, van, fuel card and door-to-door travel. It's permanent and involves UK-wide travel servicing machinery in the recycling and waste processing sector. So yes, plenty of time on the road, but also the sort of autonomy that appeals if you're happier solving faults on site than sat under strip lights in an office pretending to care about a team-building survey.

Keeping the wheels turning

Finally, there's a Transport Operator job in Shepton Mallet, permanent, around £30,000 a year. The advert itself is maddeningly vague in that classic recruitment way — lots of "innovation" and "passion", less of the useful detail — but transport operator roles usually suit people who can juggle schedules, vehicles, drivers and the occasional minor logistical meltdown without throwing a stapler. If that sounds familiar, it's worth clicking through.

That's this week's lot: a tidy mix of office jobs, engineering posts, facilities roles and work that involves actual useful skills rather than just "stakeholder engagement". For more local vacancies, have a rummage through the Wells Nub News jobs board — there's usually something on there, even if it's not the thing you thought you were looking for.