Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Join our Parks and Open Spaces Grounds Maintenance team who maintain and further improve parks, housing land, highways land, open spaces and all other green infrastructure within the city of Leicester. Under the guidance of the Local Area Manager, you'll manage your dedicated team of Craft Gardeners who undertake high quality horticultural work and grounds maintenance work.
This is a full time permanent position working 37 hours per week. Based at Knighton Park depot, you'll be prepared to work in all weather conditions.
What you’ll be doing
1. As a confident gardener and supervisor, you'll operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment.
2. Prepare and apply chemicals such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides etc.
3. Maintain Leicester’s green infrastructure by helping to maintain its horticultural features and hard landscape features including buildings.
4. Provide advice and support to customers using our facilities.
What you’ll need
1. Substantial previous experience in either horticulture or groundsmanship.
2. Experience in using specialist equipment and applying pesticides.
3. Ability to effectively lead your team, providing expert advice, guidance, and support, as well as managing performance.
4. A full UK driving licence is essential for this role as you'll be expected to undertake driving duties.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Mark Humphrey on 0116 454 3774 or email.
Assessment/interviews will take place on Thursday 16th January 2025.
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