Job Description

Grounds Maintenance Supervisor (full time, 39 hours)
*covering Oldham, Bolton, Blackpool & Blackburn
As one of our Grounds Maintenance Supervisors, you'll lead a team of operatives to keep our neighbourhoods looking their best. You will be responsible for providing excellent customer and community services, supervising teams, and ensuring high-quality standards across geographically dispersed sites.
What you'll be doing

• Work collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to maintain clean, green, and safe environments by delivering excellent grounds maintenance services for customers and communities.
• Lead the day-to-day supervision of teams, ensuring services are delivered efficiently, safely, and to high standards, including monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
• Oversee horticultural and grounds maintenance activities including grass cutting, edging, hedge trimming, pruning, planting, reseeding, weeding, spraying, litter removal, fly-tipping clearance, and site preparation.
• Safely operate a range of hand and power tools and equipment, carrying out daily checks, reporting defects, and ensuring timely repairs or maintenance.
• Take responsibility for on-site supervision of teams, vehicles, tools, equipment, chemicals/pesticides, and materials, including:

• Delivering Toolbox Talks, face-to-face training, and facilitating e-learning
• Providing clear instruction and guidance
• Ensuring operatives have the correct tools, equipment, and knowledge to complete their roles safely and effectively
• Monitor work quality and timeliness, ensuring health and safety procedures and risk assessments are followed, accurate records are maintained, and any accidents, hazards, or incidents are reported promptly.
• Deliver high-quality services in line with the Service Delivery Framework.

What you'll need
Essential

• Full driving License and willingness to travel (vehicle, fuel card & uniform provided).
• A minimum of 2 years working experience in a similar role in a social, commercial or private sector company.
• Must have experience and a clear understanding of customer service and in particular delivering a Grounds Maintenance cyclical service.
• Experience of working in a supervisory or management role.

Desirable

• IOSH / NEBOSH qualification
• LANTRA or equivalent machinery training
• Horticultural qualification
• Trained PA1 & PA6A certification
• First Aid

What we need from you

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities
• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement
• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity
• An ability to work in uncertainty.
• To be professional and work with integrity, inclusivity and respect for diversity

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment

• Pension DC Scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleague and Great Places)
• WPA Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with 1250 of savings available- option to increase & add on family members
• The Market Place High street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
• Annual Leave Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years+ Bank Holidays
• Reward & Recognition You Count Rewards are individual reward's for going 'above & beyond'
• Help with transport We offer season ticket loans, an affordable way to purchase season tickets for public transport at discounted rates .
• Wage Stream You can access savings opportunities and early access to wages

At Great Places we believe the wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to enable them to deliver to great services, all your benefits can be used inside and outside of work.
Great Places Housing Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all our colleagues to share this commitment. All successful applicant(s) will be subject to an enhanced criminal records background check (Child and Adult Workforce, Child Barred List). Further detail on our commitment to safeguarding children/young people & vulnerable adults can be found in the Great Places Housing Group Safeguarding Policy & Recruitment Policy on our website.
Great Places Housing Group exists to improve the lives of the people living in our 25,000 homes across the North West and Yorkshire. We are much more than just a landlord, providing a wide-range of services and promoting partnership work to create vibrant, sustainable communities.
You can find details of our story, our vision and our values .
At Great Places, we are committed to using inclusive hiring practices. By embracing diversity and difference, we enrich our teams with varied perspectives, drive, and innovation to create an environment in which everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures and are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone can be their authentic self; building a workforce that truly reflects the diverse communities we serve.
We love to hear from anyone who is enthusiastic about working in social housing. We know people can be reluctant to apply if they don't fill 100% of the job requirements. So, if you are unsure that your qualifications and skills are what we are looking for in this role, why not let us decide?
We want to create a recruitment process that allows you to perform at your best! Should you need any support or information throughout the process, please reach out to our recruitment team at .

Skills Required