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General Duties
The primary purpose of this post is to assist in the provision of horticultural and grounds maintenance services within Bath & North East Somerset acting as an ambassador of the organisation in the course of your job whilst interacting with members of the public.
Key Duties:
- Planting, pruning, seeding
- Hedge trimming
- Grass cutting - parks, open spaces & verges
- Strimming, leaf blowing, raking
- Setting out and marking sports areas
- Upkeep of pitches (artificial and natural
- Propagation and nursery care of plants
- Site preparation
- Manual litter picking and sweeping
- Emptying litter & recycling bins, and replacing liners
- Using electronic mobile devices to record work & log any issues
- Resolving any complaints as directed by managers
Responsibilities
- To be responsible for the general upkeep of verges, parks, woodland and public land within the Bath & North East Somerset area.
- To be responsible for carrying out horticultural and associated operations (for example, planting, pruning, seeding, hedge trimming, grass cutting, clearing leaves and litter picking/emptying park litter bins): ground maintenance (for example, basic setting out and marking of sports areas and up keep of artificial/synthetic pitches) and where appropriate chemical control under direction. Assistance to higher graded ground operatives/team leaders in more skilled tasks may also be given (for example assistance with propagation and nursery care of plants, site preparation and construction).
- To be responsible for the operation and maintenance of a range of tools and equipment as well as the use of powered hand tools and light plant, including the operation of tractor-mounted equipment could be required.
- If the postholder is an allocated driver, to drive and be responsible for a vehicle, including ride on mowers or tractors. Relevant training will be provided. Duties will include vehicle checks routine maintenance (for example oil and water checks) and cleaning the vehicle. Also completing any vehicle log books/tachograph requirements.
- Undertake, in addition activities largely utilising craft skills: for example, interpretation of plans, site preparation and setting out of pitches, tree care and propagation including carpet and annual bedding.
- To have a reasonable level of communication skills to enable them to liaise with customers, clients & management.
- Responsible for the health and safety of themselves and the team, complying with of all relevant legislation.
- Responsible for the safe use, storage, recording of chemicals to meet the requirements of all relevant legislation.
- Having charge of and being responsible for resources of a significant nature (ride on mowing machines, pedestrian mowers, mechanical grounds maintenance equipment (such as spikers, scarifiers, etc), powered and manual hand tools, etc).
- Responsible for completing and submitting all paperwork attributable to work schedules and assigned tasks, using mobile devices to assist in service delivery, logging issues and giving feedback, following instruction and using electronic maps.
- Employees at this level would be expected to work with minimal supervision and to accept responsibility for the direction of the work of trainees, agency staff and/or other employees assigned to them.
Required:
Driver must have a clean category B or above licence.
Strong team player who with a collaborative work style.
The ability to be proactive, think creatively and identify development opportunities and continuing ways of improvement.
Ability to assimilate new information quickly.
Good grounds maintenance and gardening equipment knowledge with the ability to obtain new skill sets when training is provided.
Knowledge and understanding of technical standards, safe working practices and legislation for service areas.
Location: BA1
If interested, please submit CV and call Varsha on (phone number removed) between 9am to 5pm (Mon to Fri)
