Grounds Technician - Bedfordshire
Pertemps is currently recruiting for a Ground Technician for a local college in Bedfordshire.
The main purpose of this role is to undertake grounds maintenance duties across sites and ensure they are maintained to a high standard.
Salary: £24,500
Hours: 8 am-5 pm
Duties:
1. To assist with planning improvements to grounds areas across the sites, and to provide a design and planting plan to cover all seasons.
2. You will be using pedestrian and ride-on mowers, hedge trimmers, brush cutters, leaf blowers, and backpack sprayers. Experience in the use of these tools is essential.
3. Your duties will include grass cutting and lawn maintenance, strimming and leaf clearance, general maintenance to shrub beds, bed restoration/preparation and planting.
4. Duties will also include hedge cutting and pruning, weed control, leaf clearing and winter gritting.
5. To work alongside, advise, and oversee any external contractors that are appointed to undertake larger landscaping/tree works.
6. To carry out small hard landscaping works including installation of fencing, paving, and hard-standing areas.
Requirements:
7. Appropriate horticulture qualification at level 2 or equivalent.
8. Trained to operate horticultural, tractors, machinery, and grass cutting equipment, both rotary and cylinder.
9. Trained to handle hedge-cutting and strimming equipment.
10. Minimum of 2 years horticultural experience.
If you would be interested, in this role, then please apply, or call Corinne at Pertemps.