Groundsperson, St. George's Park

5 months ago


St George's Park, United Kingdom The Football Association Full time

**Are you looking for a new challenge?**
- The St. George's Park Grounds team are seeking to appoint a permanent Groundsperson.
- They will work proactively with the Assistant Head of Grounds and other members of the Grounds team to maintain and prepare all pitches to the highest standard for all events hosted on the group pitches, as well as working with the events teams and events owners to manage all pitch related logistics.

**About the Team**
- Looking after our world-class venues, these teams are in charge of making sure everything is safe and operationally ready. From day-to-day maintenance and perfecting pitches for matches to overseeing world-class music concerts, flagship NFL events and facilities upgrades, they're custodians of English football's two national homes.

**What will you be doing?**
- Maintain and prepare the pitch to relevant universal playing standards for all codes of sport hosted by St. George's Park as agreed by bodies such as The FA, UEFA, IRB, NFL and FIFA
- Maintain training pitches to professional standard in accordance with Sports turf industry guidelines
- Maintain surfaces to agreed standards by adhering to predefined maintenance programmes developed in conjunction with appointed industry consultants
- Maintain all pitch equipment in line with manufactures standards to ensure optimum operation at all times
- Work with Pitch Contractors to reinstate pitch as dictated by the event calendar
- Operate all SGP grounds machinery to maintain the pitch to the highest standard
- Support with the overall estates management and maintenance where required
- Executes additional tasks as required in order to meet FA Group changing priorities.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing can be maintained.
- As part of The FA's commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone in football, every employee will be required to complete a DBS check. The level of the check required will be based on the activity of the specific job role and in line with legislation and government guidance.

**What are we looking for?**
- Essential for the role:

- Knowledge:

- Good knowledge on use of machinery
- General knowledge of fertilisers
- General knowledge of health and safety procedures
- Experience:

- Previous experience of working in the sports turf industry
- Technical Skills:

- Set height of cut on mowers and set cut accordingly
- Pre start checks on all machinery
- Competent in the use of pedestrian and ride on machinery, including tractors
- Attaching implements and machines to tractors including 3 point linkage and PTO
- Beneficial to have:

- Knowledge:

- Basic knowledge of irrigation
- Knowledge of and working on different types of pitch construction. Such as hybrid, reinforced, natural, artificial
- Knowledge of pitch grow lights
- Identification of turf diseases
- Experience:

- Working on football pitches at an elite level
- Working within a team
- Technical Skills:

- Use of renovation machinery
- Use of tractor mounted sprayers
- Regrinding of mower units

**What's in it for you?**
- We are committed to ensuring everyone can flourish in their roles, to achieve this we have unique office spaces under the arch of the iconic Wembley National Stadium, which is the home of English Football. We are also delighted to offer a world-class, Elite Performance Centre, St. George's Park in Staffordshire which is an exceptional setting to develop and inspire high-performing England teams and leaders.
- We pride ourselves in offering a competitive salary as well as great opportunities to develop and grow in your role. But that is not all; we also have a range of exciting benefits, some of which can be found below:

- Access to event day tickets at Wembley Stadium, alongside a host of regular internal events throughout the season encouraging you to connect and learn with your colleagues and look after your mental health and wellbeing.
- Free, nutritious lunches, at Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park.
- Free private medical cover.
- A contributory pension scheme.
- An additional Thank You days leave, volunteering days as well as 25 days annual leave.
- A hybrid working model offering flexibility on where you work.

**Our Organisation**
- The Football Association [The FA] is the not-for-profit governing body of football in England. It is responsible for promoting and developing every level of the game, from grassroots through to the professional game, and generates significant revenue to support investment into English football each year.
- The FA oversees England international teams across men's, women's, youth and disability football, as well as running the National League System and FA Competitions including the Emirates FA Cup, Barclays FA Women's Super League, FA Women's Championship, and Vitality Women's FA Cup, and the world-class facilities of Wembley Stadium and St. George's Park,
- **all with a purpose to Unite the



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