Greenkeeper

**Greenkeeper**

**40 hours per week - £10.92 per hour**

**Ufford Park Resort - Woodbridge - IP12 1QW**

**Primary Job Purpose**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Greenkeeper to join our Golf Team. The successful applicant will assist in maintaining and repairing the golf course in order to provide safety and the best guest experience.

**About The Role**

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Cutting of tee’s, fairways, rough and greens.
- Treatments of tee’s, fairways and greens.
- Strimmer’s/ Fly Mows/ Hand Tools
- Plan maintenance activities around golfers on the course
- Bunker maintenance
- Using the right tools and machinery to cut, maintain and repair the golf course
- Assisting the Head Greenkeeper with course projects/ modifications, such as the building of tees, restructuring and removal of hazards
- Course repairs - Divots/ Pitchmarks/ Animal damage
- Liaising and working alongside the Golf Department & Hotel
- Machinery cleanliness & maintenance
- Helping keep the golf course clean, tidy & in line with health and safety regulations.

This job description is not exhaustive and the job holder may be required to carry out other reasonable tasks as specified by their manager.

**Keys Skills**:

- An in-depth knowledge of turf and how to maintain it.
- Practical skills for driving and operating machinery.
- Good stamina and physical fitness.
- To be self-motivated and able to work on their own initiative.
- To be able to work alone and also as part of a team.
- Basic numeracy and literacy skills.
- To understand and follow health and safety requirements.
- To have good communication skills.

**All staff Key Performance Measures**

Our values underpin everything we do here at LQ Resorts and staff should ensure that these are at the fore front of what they do, day to day.
- To focus on the guest experience at all times and continually strive to delight time after time
- To see each guest as part of a long-term relationship not a onetime event
- To create a team that is enthusiastic, consistent and committed in the workplace that encourages an open honest and supportive culture, by working together to create excellence.
- To create an organisation with high integrity, that recognises potential and success, that both guests and employees want to be part of and associated with
- To encourage our team to contribute to excellent working conditions for all
- To gain a reputation for delivering financial performance and being consumed and enthralled about business.

**Benefits**

LQ Resorts will offer you a fantastic working environment with plenty of opportunity to make a difference each day. In addition, you will receive:

- Discounts across the resort, including family and friends
- Free onsite parking
- Progression and career development opportunities.
- Pension Scheme
- Free staff meals
- Free gym membership
- Access to wellness programmes
- Share of Resort’s service charges on monthly basis
- Extra days holiday after 2 years

**Required Criteria**

**Desired Criteria**
- Willingness to undertake further training.
- Greenkeeping experience

**Skills Needed**

**About The Company**

**About Us**

**Langstone Quays Resor**t sits on the beautiful and historic Chichester harbour, on the northern tip of Hayling Island in the heart of the **Hampshire coastline.**

Langstone Quays has been lovingly and thoughtfully refurbished, creating a unique blend of amazing experiences throughout across unrivalled hotel, restaurant, leisure, meeting and event spaces

**Lion Quays Resort** sits on the beautiful and historic Oswestry waterways, on the banks of the Llangollen Canal in the heart of the **Shropshire countryside.**

Lion Quays has been lovingly and painstakingly built from the ground up, creating a unique blend of amazing experiences throughout the Resort, across unrivalled hotel, restaurant, spa, leisure, meeting and event spaces.

**Ufford Park Resort **is nestled in the beautiful and historic parkland, on the heritage **Suffolk Coast**

Ufford Park boasts elegant and modern accommodation, an award winning golf course, Suffolk’s only two-tiered driving range and new spa and club A unique blend of amazing experiences throughout the Resort, across unrivalled hotel, restaurant, spa, leisure, meeting and event spaces.

**Company Culture**

**Why LQ Resorts ?**

**Our Company**

LQ is a family run, collection of quality destination led Hotel Resorts.

Its family ethos, values and vision are well known to those who choose to spend their quality time with us.

LQ Resorts work incredibly hard to put the guest experience at the heart of all it does and to develop long term relationships with our guests and never seeing them as a one
- time event.

A passion for hospitality is supported by the obsession with developing the very best services and facilities for our guests, delivered by an enthusiastic, enthralled team within an open, honest and supportive culture, working together to create excellence.