Garden Maintenance Team Leader

Garden Maintenance Team Leader

Salary £32,000 to £37,000 + Vehicle and Bonus

Chertsey, and sites across London

Permanent

You will be working for a successful and award winning, owner - managed Garden Landscaping company with a proven track record in building and maintaining garden projects from the smallest domestic schemes to the largest private gardens. This is an opportunity to progress your career working on acclaimed, award winning gardens.

The Garden Maintenance Teams are based from the office and yard near Chertsey, Surrey and gardens are located throughout Central London, Surrey and the surrounding areas. The sites are a very broad mix of high-end domestic gardens, many of which have been designed and built by the company. You will ensure that they look their best as they continue to develop and mature. The work is a mix of:

• Lawn care (mowing, feeding etc.)

• Tending to borders and containers (feeding, staking, weeding, planting)

• General and specialised pruning, using hand and power tools

• General watering and management of irrigation systems

• Application of chemical and biological control

• Management of garden water features

• Ground and hard surface clearance

• Soil management (testing pH and moisture levels, mulching and improving)

You will have a reasonable knowledge of gardening practices and will probably have a RHS qualification to Level 2. As a Team Leader you will often be “the face of the company” with both clients and their representatives and should therefore have a pleasant, friendly manner and good communication skills.

You will ensure that you and your team have the correct uniform and PPE and that the vehicles and machinery that you use are in good order and safe to operate. You will maintain your tools correctly to ensure their serviceability. You will ensure that stock and materials are available for each job/site on a daily basis and submit requests for additional items. You will allocate duties to your team, audit the work that is done and report progress jobs completed on a daily basis.

The Person:

Ideally you will have at least 3 years’ experience of leading a small team in a gardening role together with a landscaping or gardening qualification. A Driving Licence is ESSENTIAL.

These attributes would be useful but should not stop you applying for the roles;

• RHS Level 2 - Horticulture (or a suitable equlivant)
  
  
• PA1 & PA6 certificate.
  
  
• CS30 & CS31
  
  
• Trailer licence / experience