Grounds Maintenance Team Leader

Due to expediential growth in our business, we have an exciting opportunity and are recruiting for a **Grounds Maintenance Team Leader **who has a can-do attitude who will join an existing team working across multiple sites in and around the **Cardiff **area.

**Job Purpose**

As a **Grounds Maintenance Team Leader**, you will be responsible for supervising a small team ensuring the maintenance of the grounds at many of our sites in and around the Cardiff area. You will provide support to the line manager in relation to the team’s compliance of company procedures and policies as well as ensuring that the requirements of the client and the specification are fully met for the enjoyment, recreation and safety of the sites, employees and visitors. You will be working ‘hands-on’ with a small team of gardeners to provide a top-class horticultural environment for our clients.

**Skills and experiences**:

- Ability to work as part of a team or on their own
- Full driving licence with Towing is essential
- Passionate about the environment with a keen eye for detail.
- NVQ or Diploma Level 2 Horticulture / Landscaping (or equivalent)
- Spraying Certificates - NPTC PA1 & PA6
- Team management experience
- Experience in Landscaping / Grounds Maintenance
- Ability to implement Health & Safety requirements to ensure safe working practices to enable smooth running of works on site
- Knowledge of heavy-duty gardening equipment
- Experience with **ride on** grass-cutting equipment and **tractor **driving is preferable but not essential

**In return we offer**:

- **Starting from £11.33 per hour dependant on experience**, with annual reviews
- 28 days holiday (inc. Bank Holidays)
- Employee contribution pension scheme
- A friendly customer focused team atmosphere
- Training and Development with exciting opportunities to further your career
- Uniform/ PPE provided
- Refer a friend scheme, £200 per person from Day 1
- Cycle to work scheme, and access to our Bravo benefits hub
- Nurture landscapes is a proud partner of the Living Wage Foundation

**The Company**:
The Nurture Group, is an award winning national service provider consisting of three leading brands**:Nurture Landscapes**, **Gavin Jones** and **Rokill Pest Control Services**.

**Nurture Landscapes** specialises in grounds maintenance, winter gritting and interior and exterior plant display services, mainly to the corporate sector.

**Gavin Jones** provide landscape construction services to a wide variety of clients across the UK, working alongside landscape architects, designers and main contractors. They also provide grounds maintenance services to military sites and public open spaces and are proud holders of the Royal Warrant to Her Majesty The Queen.

**Rokill** provide pest control services to both commercial and domestic customers as well as the public sector. They hold the Royal Warrant to Her Majesty The Queen and are of the UK’s leading pest control companies.

Our clients span across a diverse and broad range of disciplines, from corporate headquarters, science parks, shopping centres, business and industrial parks, to leisure facilities, schools, sporting venues, hotels, universities, public open spaces and the public sector.

**Nurture is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £11.33 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cardiff: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you have experience with using petrol two-stroke grass/hedge cutting equipment ?

**Experience**:

- Supervising: 1 year (preferred)
- Grounds Maintenance: 3 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- PA1 & PA6 Spraying Certificates (preferred)
- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road

Reference ID: RB-TL-CAR-DR