Grounds Person

3 weeks ago

Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom University of Kent Full time

Join our team as Grounds Person where you will use your skills to maintain and prepare both natural and artificial sport surfaces and associated areas.

You will undertake all preparation & cultivation to a complete range of sports facilities and other surfaces to ensure safe quality playing surfaces, setting out all sports pitches or other surfaces as required by the demands of the sports programme.

We are seeking someone who is keen to work as part of a multi-skilled team and continue learning new skills to improve our Grounds services.

As Grounds Person you can expect to be involved in:

  • Maintaining and preparing the University's Sports fields & associated areas to a high standard using appropriate methods and machinery
  • Ensuring the playing surfaces (natural and artificial) are safe at all times
  • Driving and operating University owned plant equipment, vehicles and equipment to carry out maintenance/preparation tasks for the Sports team, working in a safe and compliant manner
  • Maintaining continuous liaison with designated members of the University's Sport Centre to ensure that requirements for sports facilities are known
  • Carrying out regular maintenance of all plant and vehicles used for sports field maintenance

What will you bring to the role?

  • NVQ 2 or equivalent qualification/experience in related areas e.g. Sports Turf or Maintenance of Outdoor Sports Facilities
  • Full UK manual Driving Licence
  • Proven experience of sports turf preparation and maintenance in a medium to large organisation
  • Knowledge of maintenance techniques and processes inherent in the upkeep of artificial & natural playing surfaces

What we can offer in return:

As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You'll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including:

  • 43 days' leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff)
  • excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
  • corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health
  • retailer and wellbeing discounts via Edenred
  • on campus cinema/theatre, sports facilities, library, nursery (Canterbury) & food outlets
  • study while you work discounts, cycle to work scheme, local business discounts
  • support in your development and wellbeing at all stages of employment, including an Employee Assistance Programme
  • training and development opportunities at all levels
  • on-site parking

Meet your team

The Commercial Services and Estates Department provides essential services at both the Canterbury and Medway campuses that are critical to the staff and student experience at the University of Kent. Commercial Services delivers a range of value-added services including catering, conferencing, residential accommodation, reception services, sport and recreation. The residential accommodation houses approximately 6,500 students during term-time across Canterbury and Medway campuses. The Canterbury campus is a successful conference, events and holiday location during the summer months.

Estates are responsible for managing, maintaining and developing the infrastructure, buildings and extensive grounds at Kent. The department also has responsibility for the security of students, staff and visitors, transport, parking and travel; customer and postal services and the Design & Print Centre

We are ambitious for our people, our communities and the region we serve – join us in making the world a better place. Visit our website for more on who we are:

To apply, please click the 'Apply' button, above.

For further information regarding the application process, please contact:

quoting reference number EST R3.

£23,144 to £24,533 per annum Grade 4

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