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Groundskeeper
Location: Merton
Hourly Rate: 13.15ph
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Monday-Friday 7:00-3:30pm
Manpower are looking for a Groundskeeper to work for our client based in Merton. Working in this role you will join the Sports & Horticulture team in Merton. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining numerous sports grounds including cricket, rugby, bowls and football pitches as well as other sports surfaces from time to time. You will be pruning & maintaining shrubs, cutting and trimming hedges with power machinery, grass cutting with powered mowers and strimmers, and planting and bedding plants.
Requirements
- Can-do attitude and safety-conscious mindset.
- Physically fit and able to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Previous horticultural/sports grounds maintenance experience, as well as bedding schemes experience.
- Experience using powered mowers and grounds maintenance machinery.
- An understanding of what it takes to maintain fine turf and specialist grounds.
- A full valid UK driving license is essential as this is part of a mobile team.
- PA1 and PA6 licenses are desirable.
Benefits
- Up to 21 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave.
- Support for personal and professional challenges.
- Discounts on retail, holidays, gym memberships, and more.
- Resources to manage your finances.
- Secure your future.
- Colleague of the month and annual awards.
- Two days per year to support a cause of your choice.
- Comprehensive resources and support.
About our client:
You will work for a company that genuinely cares and has a strong Sustainability Strategy with a focus on responsibility at the heart of their three pillars of People, Planet and Performance. Our client is Europe's leading provider of soft landscaping services and landscape creation projects. As the top soft landscaping provider in the UK, they offer a comprehensive range of services, including professional open space management, soft landscaping design and build, tree surgery, civil engineering, outdoor facilities management, biodiversity management, and waterways management.
Apply now and a member of our Team will be in contact!
