Job Description

Role: Grounds Maintenance Team Leader
Location: Ashford
Salary: \xc2\xa326,535.60 per annum

The Role

Landscapes Services are looking for a Grounds Maintainance Team Leader to deliver grounds maintenance works and related tasks on several sites over a defined geographical area, on behalf of our varied customer base.

This role will involve a range of operations including grass cutting, border works and hedge cutting, setting out and marking sports fields.

The successful applicant will be self-motivated and able to demonstrate knowledge of, and consideration towards, health and safety, and safe work practices for both themselves and the staff they supervise. They will at times be our frontline representative for the Company and the customer whilst on site and as such will be organised and professional.

This role requires you to work alongside your team whilst being able to supervise, instruct and organise staff ensuring resource and material requirements are met.

A current, clean driving licence and full DBS check (provided by the Company) is required.

Key Duties

• Ensuring daily works are completed to meet contract specification and customer satisfaction. Always ensuring good customer care through support and communication with customers.
• Planning, organising, and supervising staff and managing materials to ensure waste is kept to a minimum. This will involve working on contracts to achieve quality against time constraints with a need to be flexible and innovative.
• Caring for, inspecting, and maintaining machinery to manufacturers specified recommendations, always ensuring the equipment is safe and correct for use.
• Planning, identifying, and ordering via the Senior Team Leader, materials and resources to ensure continuity of works. Ensure chemical usage complies with current legislation.
• Supervising staff to ensure contract compliance, work completion and organised activity. Leading on site activity and acting as a key representative of Landscape Services.
• Completing all paperwork, forms, health and safety inspections and on-site preparations in a competent and efficient manner, to comply with contractual, company and/or legislative requirements. This includes vehicle policies.
• Maintaining a clean and professional working practise on site. Leading by example and delivering quality expectation throughout. Supporting new starters and developing apprentices in line with policy and procedures.
• Ensuring safe working practices are always maintained, identifying risks and unsafe practices in order to minimise potential for injury or accident. Reporting all incidents and near misses to senior staff.
• Where required, responding to and supporting inclement weather works i.e. snow clearing or flooded areas.
• Regularly liaising with customers and resolving any concerns, difficulties, or issues, reporting problems and actioning instructions as required. Ensuring Landscape Services is represented professionally and in accordance with good customer care.
• Using company IT and equipment to record daily site activity.

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Considerations

This role requires the successful applicant to undertake duties and precautions which relate to the health, safety and wellbeing issues outlined below. Please be aware of these, when considering your suitability for the role.

• Noisy working environment (above 80d)
• Repetitive limb movements
• Working with machinery (including reports of vibration hazards)
• Working with chemicals (Inc. requirement to wear latex gloves and Inc. work with CO2 or N2 gasses)
• Potential exposure to asbestos or other dusts
• Working at height
• Prolonged physical/manual work/manual handling (Inc. human beings)
• Exposure to animals
• Vocational driving on- and off-site (includes use of cars, vans, ride-on mowers, buggies and tractors.)
• Prolonged weather hazard exposure \xe2\x80\x93 wind/rain/snow/pollen/UV/sun
• Working in isolation
• Position subject to a completed DBS check

About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is one of the largest providers of public sector and education procurement services globally, with revenues of c\xc2\xa3500M, 1800 staff and six trading divisions: Global Education Supplies, Procurement, Energy & Carbon, Community Services, Professional Services and People Services.

Wholly owned by Kent County Council, CSG supports over 15,000 customers in 86 countries and collaborates with a supply chain of c1,000 suppliers.

Commercial Services Group is one of the leading providers of procurement and support services to education and public sector customers globally. Serving over 15,000 customers, CSG is committed to providing an excellent customer and user experience underpinned by social value and a committed and empowered workforce.

Commercial Services Group