Facilities Gardener

Miller’s Recruitment; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Gardener in Ovingdean. The role involves maintaining company grounds, planting seasonal flowers, and ensuring cleanliness. Candidates should have at least 3 years of gardening experience and knowledge of horticulture. The position offers comprehensive training, competitive benefits including 32 days of holiday, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Company Pension

32 days holiday per year

Job Specific Uniform & tooling

Qualifications

• Previous experience in gardening or landscaping.
• Ability to use a variety of gardening tools and machinery.
• Physically fit and capable of outdoor work in various weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain lawns, flower beds, shrubs, and trees.
• Plant seasonal flowers and other vegetation.
• Identify and treat plant diseases and pests.

Skills

Gardening

Horticulture knowledge

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Equipment operation

Job description

Overview

Miller’s Vanguard is the UK’s premier service, maintenance, and equipment supply company within the foodservice industry. We work with many of the UK’s leading retail chains, maintaining and supplying equipment with unrivalled expertise built over 40 years.

We have a great opportunity for a Gardener to join our facilities department. As a Facilities Operative / Gardener, you will be responsible for the Gardening and maintenance of all company grounds at a high standard.

Responsibilities

• Maintain lawns, flower beds, shrubs, and trees
• Plant seasonal flowers, trees, and other vegetation
• Mow lawns, trim hedges, and edge pathways
• Identify and treat plant diseases and pests
• Operate and maintain gardening tools and equipment
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of outdoor areas
• Work within health and safety guidelines

What we are looking for

• Previous experience in gardening or landscaping
• Good knowledge of plants, horticulture, and seasonal care
• Ability to use a variety of gardening tools and machinery
• Physically fit and capable of outdoor work in various weather conditions
• Strong attention to detail and pride in workmanship
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Our ideal candidate will

• Experience working in a residential, commercial or public garden.
• Able to understand landscape designs and bedding schemes.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in garden / grounds maintenance
• Wide knowledge of gardening.

Company Information

Who are we? Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows:

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 32 days holiday per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families