Grave Digger

Location: Shepton Mallett

Job Tittle: Grave Digger

Hours: 40 hours per week

Pay: £9.50 per hour

**Role Responsibilities**
- To be the first point of contact for Cemetery users and clients in person. To provide a high quality, welcoming and personable service, ensuring timely and appropriate responses to deliver customer satisfaction.
- To organise and undertake effectively and efficiently, appropriate levels of service delivery.
- To ensure that appropriate consideration is given to the beliefs of the funeral cortège, and the funeral party.
- To ensure appropriate consideration is given to the beliefs of the funeral cortège, and the funeral party.
- To maintain essential equipment and Depot areas in a proper condition
- To work effectively as a member of a team.
- To provide a grave digging service, including the safe excavation and shoring of graves as dictated by ground conditions.
- To ensure that all graves are suitable in dimensions to receive the casket or coffin prescribed.

**Basic knowledge of and ability to carry out horticultural and or grounds person tasks.**
- tree, shrub and bedding plant planting
- turfing and grass seed sowing
- turf care and mechanical operations
- hedge cutting and skilled shrub pruning
- chemical control spraying under direction

**Ability to**:

- excavate grave spaces and knowledge of dimensions and location of grave spaces, ensuring all graves are dug to for the required dimensions.
- to provide grave digging service, including the safe excavation and shoring as dictated by ground conditions.
- Ability to work in confined spaces and the use of ladders e.g., working in graves.
- move headstones/memorials with suitable tools available

Essential
- Valid driving license and ability to drive a car and or van

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