**Ground Maintenance & Gardener**
**Corsham, Wiltshire**
**Job Purpose**

My client is recruiting for an active Groundskeeper to keep grounds functionally and aesthetically pleasant and well kept. You will maintain lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, stair paths, retaining walls and turf. The Groundskeeper will employ insecticides, chemical sprays, fertilisers, and mulches to optimise condition of greenery. You will keep grounds free from trash, litter, debris, weeds, plant diseases and harmful insects. You will maintain equipment and supplies, and order as needed.

**Responsibilities**
- Maintaining site landscaping.
- Maintaining lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, turf and irrigation.
- Fertilising lawn, trees, flowers and shrubs, and spreading mulch.
- Trimming trees, hedges and shrubs, and preventing and eliminating weeds.
- Operating and maintaining hand tools, such as loppers, saws and shovels efficiently.
- Operating and maintaining trucks and power tools.
- Utilising insecticides, fertilisers and chemical sprays to treat diseases.
- Keeping grounds free from trash, litter, and debris, and emptying trash receptacles.
- Conducting basic irrigation audit and performing basic irrigation repairs.
- Removing snow by using shovel or snow blower. Also gritting of pathways and roads

**Knowledge Skills & Experience**
- Previous experience grounds keeping or related experience.
- Valid driver's licence (ideally with towing experience)
- Proficient in using manual and power tools safely.
- Able to work in all conditions

**Person**
- Hard-working.
- Physically agile and dexterous.
- Previous experience essential

The recruiter has stated that all applicants for this job should be able to prove they are legally entitled to work in the UK. Carbon60 is a trading name of Carbon60 Limited an Employment Business/Agency.