Grounds Maintenance Team Leader

Robertson Group; United Kingdom; On-site; Full time

Job description

Overview

Safety, Results, Pride. We see more than just high standards

Landscape & Grounds Maintenance Team Leader

Location: Carnoustie High School

Working Hours: Annualised Hours - 1st April - 31st October working Monday - Thursday 7am - 5pm, Friday 7am - 2.30pm. 1st November - 31st March working Monday - Thursday 8am-4pm, Friday OFF

Contract: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: £14.95 per hour

Relationships. Results. Success. At Robertson Facilities Management, we see them our way. We’re professional enough to make every collaboration count. Driven enough to deliver the very best service to everyone we work with. Friendly enough to make sure any environment we manage is as enjoyable as it is safe. Join us and you’ll join the UK’s largest family-owned construction, infrastructure and support services businesses. As a Landscape & Grounds Maintenance Team Leader you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the partners we work with, and for a truly sustainable future.

Your new role

What you’ll do:

• Lead a team of employees carrying out a range of landscaping and/or grounds maintenance work on a daily basis. Identify workloads and allocate tasks, interpret plans and relay information to team members ensuring work standards are maintained.
• Carry out a range of grounds maintenance and landscaping tasks e.g. grass cutting, raking, edging, weeding, sweeping, litter picking, chemical application, planting & laying turf etc.
• Carry out line marking to football/rugby parks and athletic tracks.
• Drive and operate a wide range of vehicles, plant and equipment including vehicle attached machinery, pedestrian and ride-on machinery and hand held equipment.
• Undertake daily routine safety and maintenance checks ensuring that vehicles, machinery and equipment used is well maintained, kept clean and not exposed to the risk of damage or theft.
• Use approved equipment and follow manufacturer’s recommended guidelines and application rates when undertaking the application of herbicides/pesticides, ensuring that all defined areas are maintained to the required standards.

About you:

• Professional vocational qualification in a Grounds Maintenance discipline or have equivalent experience, preferably from a commercial contracting background.
• Full driving license including trailer license and certificates of competence in compact tractor operations and use of tractor mounted implement, ride-on and self-propelled pedestrian mowers, strimmers, brush cutters and hedge cutters.
• Hold a certificate of competence for pesticides spraying (PA1 & PA6).
• Experience of undertaking landscaping and grounds maintenance duties including grass cutting within a professional environment.
• Desirable experience in soft landscaping, hard landscaping experience would be an advantage.
• Good knowledge of compact tractors and their attachments, mowing equipment and associated plant and their maintenance requirements.
• Previous team leader or supervisory experience preferred.

Who we’re looking for:

People are at the heart of everything we do and achieve at Robertson. To fit right into the team you’ll be friendly, professional and care about the job you do; listen to customers and work with your colleagues to support them as a team; follow procedures that keep you and our customers safe and help us maintain high standards; share our pride in making a real difference.

What's in it for me

Working the Robertson Way

Joining us isn’t just about seeing things our way. It’s also about working the Robertson Way too, by bringing our 5 guiding principles to life. Here’s what that means…

We listen
Listening enables us to work positively and collaboratively, and gives customers, partners and colleagues the assurance that their voices are always heard.

We are professional
Our mix of prudence and diligence, care and attention to detail means that our customers have certainty and assurance in everything we do and trust us to deliver.

We take responsibility
Each of us is accountable for what we do. From the smallest detail to team safety and caring for our communities and the environment, we know that everything matters.

We are determined to succeed
Every challenge is an opportunity. We work collaboratively and focus on safety, productivity and quality to find solutions we can be proud of and that provide a positive, lasting benefit.

We are one team
We work as one - in our teams and partnerships, and with our customers. We respect each contribution, and everyone stands up to be counted. We are Team Robertson.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to a competitive annual salary, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits including:

• 33 days annual leave
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Rewards platform for discounts with retailers, supermarkets, restaurants and more
• Annual flu vaccine
• Free Health & Wellbeing advice
• Company vehicle (business use only) and all tools provided

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. We’re a company with strong family values and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. That’s why we’re working to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can feel welcome, included, and where we can all be our authentic selves.

Apply now

If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you.

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