Grounds Maintenance Supervisor

Your Housing Group; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension match

Healthcare plan

Extra holidays

Job summary

Your Housing Group is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Supervisor based in Manchester to lead a small team across NW sites. You will oversee grounds maintenance, landscaping and environmental services while ensuring safety and customer care standards are met.

This permanent role offers a structured 40-hour week from Gilmour House with site-based duties. The role requires driving and hands-on supervision, with a focus on quality and value for money.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing grounds maintenance and environmental services.
• Strong supervision and planning skills.
• Good knowledge of health and safety practices.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of Grounds Maintenance and Environmental Services Operatives.
• Plan and organise daily tasks to meet SLAs and quality standards.
• Carry out site inspections and ensure safe working practices.
• Resolve customer or stakeholder enquiries or complaints.
• Maintain high levels of customer service and deliver ad hoc works.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Team supervision

Health & safety

Driving licence

Job description

Salary: £31,263 – £33,566 per annum (depending on experience)

Job Title: Grounds Maintenance Supervisor

Salary: £31,263 – £33,566 per annum (depending on experience)

Contract:Permanent

Location:Gilmour House 95 Wood Ln, Partington, Manchester M31 4LW

Weekly Hours:40 hrs

So…. What is this role exactly?

This is an exciting opportunity for aGrounds Maintenance Supervisor based in Manchester to work on various Your Housing Group sites across the northwest.

As a working Grounds Maintenance Supervisor, you will be part of a small and supportive team and will use your previous experience to deliver grounds maintenance, landscaping and environmental services to Your Housing Group’s customers, ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety and customer care at all times. The role includes a small rota of sites that you will maintain yourself or with another member of the team.

What will my working week look like?

Monday to Friday 8am to 4.30pm. Starting and finishing work at Gilmour House.

What will I be responsible for doing?

First and foremost, you will be able to:

• Supervising a team of Ground Maintenance and Environmental Services Operatives and making sure their carry out their duties in a safe manner.
• Organising and planning team task and duties ensuring YHG meet their Service Level Agreements and at a high standard.
• Carrying out site inspections using iAuditor.
• Resolving any enquiries or complaints made by YHG customers or stakeholders.
• Ensuring high levels of customer service.
• Carrying out duties such as grass cutting, pruning, herbicide applications or ad hoc works.
• Good knowledge of grounds maintenance and general health & safety.
• Be a strong team player with solid communication skills.
• Be trained and competent to use and maintaina range of associated powered landscaping tool and equipment.
• Hold a full valid UK driving licence.
• Carrying out any other duties in line with the role.

In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer between £31,263 - £33,566 per annum for a 40-hour week, and 23 days annual leave (holidays continue to increase with time served) plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas & New Year, plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments), an option to buy up to one weeks further holiday, an annual volunteering day, and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by building over 100 new homes a year and continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties, tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our Repairs and Maintenance teams play a huge part in delivering these services to our customers.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

Additions

As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

Closing Date: 14th October 2026

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview. Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.

Salary
£31,263 – £33,566 per annum (depending on experience)