Head Groundskeeper

Do you have an eye for exhibit upkeep and development? Possess a passion for keeping things in working order? Fancy creating a programme of preventative maintenance?

This could be the role for you

Eureka are looking for a Senior Technician to maintain all essential equipment, assist with the development of galleries and exhibits and reporting on the performance of essential systems including energy management.

If you have the experience listed in the job description, we’d love to hear from you

**Main responsibility areas**:
**Maintenance**

Maintaining the following to achieve the highest standards of safety and operation:

- All grassed areas kept cut and tidy.
- Grounds, path’s, roads, flowerbeds, sand pit and any other areas are prepared properly, kept free of obstructions and are safe to use.
- Manage a programme of planting, mowing and other activity to ensure that external areas present a high standard to visitors.

**Monitoring, testing and reporting.**- Monitoring all plant and lawn growth, adjusting schedules to ensure standards are maintained. Adjusting workload to reflect the seasonal requirements - gritting in winter, leaves pick up in autumn, composting grass cuttings.
- Monitoring the condition and numbers of consumables/spares - ordering and collecting them as required and within agreed budgetary limits.
- Ensuring any fuels are stored on site in a safe manner and in keeping with government legislation.
- Monitoring the performance of the work performed by on-site contractors to ensure it meets Eureka’s standards.
- Ensuring the sand pit is kept to agreed levels and cleanliness.
- Ensuring that potholes are repaired in house if possible or reported for external repair.

**Security**
- Supervise, support and monitor the provision of internal security on the grounds.
- Monitoring CCTV and responding to security issues.
- Contacting management and the police as required.
- Carrying out site security and safety patrols.
- Completing relevant documentation relating to daily tasks and incidents.

**Documentation**
- Keeping accurate, up-to-date records of faults on grounds equipment.
- Entering the results of servicing are noted and recording system failures.
- Maintaining documentation showing dates of servicing, parts replacement, testing before use.
- Ensuring PPE is available and monitored before any use of grounds equipment.
- Correct record keeping relating to petrol and other fuel storage.
- Maintenace of equipment storage space.
- Recording of all ground's supplies - paving stones, cold tarmac, gravel, plants, fertilizer, weed killer, manual tools etc.
- Maintaining the Faults Reporting System and updating as necessary.

**Customer Service**
- Delivering a consistently high level of customer service.
- Reviewing the grounds to ensure the customers first impression of Eureka is of a high standard.

**Leadership and support**
- Supervising the work of the site staff and on-site contractors to ensure the available resources are delivered efficiently.
- Line manager of site assistants - covering holidays, training, rota’s activity sheets
- Providing specialist training for other staff.
- Offering advice and support to the site team - giving clear instructions on daily, weekly and monthly tasks.
- Developing and monitoring training requirements and record keeping.
- Work with Visitor Services and Play and Learning to ensure grounds are ready for use by customers.
- Support other museum departments in the efficient delivery of programmes, and events.

**Health and Safety**
- Assisting with the provision of a healthy and safe site.
- Working and ensuring that staff and contractors work within the current relevant regulations.
- Monitoring and developing safety systems, CoSHH, risk assessments and permits.
- Ensuring any staff using site equipment have undertaken the required training and are competent in the operation of equipment.

**General**
- Any other duties as may be reasonably expected of the Head Groundkeeper.

**Special features**
- Contributing to a seven-day rota
- Weekend and some Bank Holiday work required.
- Occasional overtime as required.
- Standby to the technical team as required.

**Details of Education required, and qualifications neede**d.
- 3 GCSE’s at A* - C (or equivalent) OR relevant experience in a similar role.

**Details of special skills/experience/aptitudes needed.**
- An aptitude to develop management systems to ensure efficient use of available resources.
- Supervisory and management experience with relevant training
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to create systems of operations to ensure service and requirements match.
- Creating rotas ensuring grounds tasks are carried out in the correct frequency for the relevant season.
- Ensuring tasks are prioritised reflecting open / closed periods, seasonal requirements and cover for holidays / sickness are in place.
- Proven experience of supervising a team of site assistants and an aptitude to m