Shepton Mallet is doing very Shepton Mallet things this week: transport, depots, production, admin and the sort of behind-the-scenes work that keeps everyone else pretending things happen by magic. There are driving roles, management posts and office-based jobs for those who enjoy a dashboard that is not attached to a windscreen.

Over in Street, Clarks territory is offering something for the marketing-minded with a Consumer Media Planner role based on the same site where Cyrus and James Clark started making sheepskin slippers back in 1825. So yes, you can plan consumer campaigns across the UK, ROI and EMEA while standing on ground with more footwear history than most museums. It's in advert, media and entertainment, and sounds suited to someone who can cope with fast-moving marketing without saying "fast-paced environment" in the mirror every morning.

Also in Street, there's a Service Administrator vacancy with a well-established engineering services business. This one is about taking ownership of the service and maintenance function, which is office-speak for making sure the wheels do not come off while everyone else is busy looking technical. It sits in administration, with a commercial and industrial flavour, so ideal for someone organised enough to know where the paperwork is and calm enough not to weaponise the printer.

If you know your way around water systems and fancy a step up, Glastonbury has a Water Engineer Team Leader role paying £40,000 to £45,000, with OTE up to £56,000. It's Monday to Friday, days-based, with overtime, enhanced pay, door-to-door travel, a van, fuel card, specialist training and progression. In other words, a proper grown-up technical role for someone who can lead a team and still understand what is happening when water goes where water absolutely should not.

Back in Street, Millfield School is looking for an HR Employee Relations Advisor. This is a full-time, year-round post, 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm, with salary up to £45,000 depending on experience. You'll be dealing with disciplinary, grievance, capability and investigation work, so not one for the faint-hearted or anyone who thinks HR is mostly lanyards and birthday cards. Benefits include very cheap lunches, five weeks' annual leave, access to school facilities and the usual safeguarding checks because, quite rightly, it is a school.

Education-wise, there's also a SEND Teaching Assistant role in Street, with an immediate start through Five Education. It's based in a secondary SEN school, supporting pupils with autism, communication difficulties and social, emotional and mental health needs. Expect one-to-one and small group support in a structured specialist setting — meaningful work, but not the sort where you get to coast quietly behind a laminator all day.

For those happier in wellies than office shoes, a farm near Glastonbury is after a Head Herdsperson for a 285-cow Holstein herd on a 450-acre family farming operation. The role includes responsibility for milkings, vet visits, records, parlour standards, welfare, night checks and calvings, with a full-time assistant in place. There's a competitive package and a large three-bedroom detached house on farm, which is not to be sniffed at unless you are standing downwind of the wrong gate.

Near Wells, Quality Milk Management Services Ltd is hiring a Laboratory Technician. It's a full-time role with a small family company focused on the dairy industry, covering milk recording, laboratory work and consultancy services. A good one for someone who likes detail, responsibility and the quiet satisfaction of knowing exactly what is going on in a sample tube while the rest of us are still trying to work the self-checkout.

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Also in the Wells area, there's a Personal Tax Accountant vacancy with an established firm of chartered accountants. It's a permanent role, aimed at someone experienced in personal tax, with ATT or CTA qualifications welcomed but not essential if you've got the right experience. The package mentions a competitive salary, generous holiday and pension, private medical insurance, home working options and a cycle-to-work scheme. Ideal for someone who can discuss capital gains computations without their soul leaving their body.

Shepton Mallet, meanwhile, is quietly keeping the transport world moving while everyone else complains about traffic. There's an HGV Class 2 Driver role available for immediate start at £16.50 per hour, Monday to Friday days. There's also a Class 2 Driver – Collections & Delivery job with Pallet Networks, involving multi-drop palletised deliveries around the South West, with a Saturday rota roughly one in ten, paid at £20 per hour with a guaranteed minimum four hours. For the night owls, Gregory Distribution Ltd has a Class 1 Trunk Driver role, Monday to Friday nights. Bring coffee, patience, and the ability to reverse without attracting an audience.

Staying in Shepton Mallet, EMED is advertising an Operations Manager position covering both Wellington and Shepton Mallet bases, focused on frontline patient transport services. Holcim has an Assistant Production Manager vacancy in manufacturing operations. And there's a Senior Administrator role based at a Shepton depot, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm, starting at £30,000, with 30 days' paid holiday after five years, pension, casual dress and on-site parking. It's office-based, technical and organised — basically, the sort of job where dashboards are not something in a van.

Finally, slightly oddly but worth noting, there's a Veterinary Business Manager – Royal Canin listing under Castle Cary, although the territory mentioned is Inverness, Perth, Dundee and Shetland, so read the small print before picturing yourself popping over to Bruton for a sandwich between calls. The role offers £38,000 to £40,000 base salary, bonus of £7,000 to £15,000, company car and benefits, working Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week. It's sales, nutrition and veterinary practice relationships — less cuddling Labradors, more PowerPoint with a pet-food purpose.

That's this week's tour of local gainful employment, from milk labs to media plans and from SEND classrooms to Class 1 cabs. For more roles, have a nose through the Glastonbury, Wells and Shepton Mallet Nub News jobs boards — ideally before someone else bags the one with the house, the van, or the cheap lunches.