Grounds Maintenance Team Leader

Leicester City Council; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Local Government Pension Scheme

Flexible working

Discounts on city buses and trains

Training and development opportunities

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Leicester City Council is seeking a confident Gardener Supervisor to manage a dedicated team of Craft Gardeners at Knighton Park Depot. You will operate equipment, apply chemicals, and maintain green spaces to keep Leicester's parks accessible and attractive.

The role requires horticultural experience, team leadership, and a full UK driving licence. The position is full-time, permanent, with 37 hours per week and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in horticulture or groundsmanship.
• Experience in using specialist equipment.
• Experience in applying pesticides.
• Ability to lead a team and provide guidance and support.
• Full UK driving licence is essential.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain hand and mechanical equipment.
• Maintain Leicester’s green infrastructure and hard landscape features.
• Provide advice and support to customers using the facilities.

Skills

Horticulture

Groundsmanship

Team leadership

Pesticide application

Equipment operation

Driving licence

Tools

Specialist equipment

Job description

Reference: REQ8256
Description: Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent Join our Parks and Open Spaces Grounds Maintenance team who maintain and further improve parks, housing land, highways land, open spaces and all other green infrastructure within the city of Leicester. Under the guidance of the Local Area Manager, you'll manage your dedicated team of Craft Gardeners who undertake high quality horticultural work and grounds maintenance work. This is a full time permanent position working 37 hours per week. Based at Knighton Park depot, you'll be prepared to work in all weather conditions. What you'll be doing As a confident gardener and supervisor, you'll operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment as well as prepare and apply chemicals such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides etc. You'll make Leicester's green infrastructure free of barriers to access, by helping to maintain its horticultural features as well as hard landscape features including buildings. You'll provide advice and support to customers using our facilities.
Region: Central
Location: Knighton Park Depot
Salary: *GBP*29,542 - *GBP*32,046 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): *GBP*43,249
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time,
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

What You’ll Be Doing

As a confident gardener and supervisor, you'll operate and maintain hand and mechanical specialist equipment as well as prepare and apply chemicals such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides etc. You'll make Leicester’s green infrastructure free of barriers to access, by helping to maintain its horticultural features as well as hard landscape features including buildings. You'll provide advice and support to customers using our facilities.

What You’ll Need

With substantial previous experience in either horticulture or groundsmanship, you'll have experience in using specialist equipment and applying pesticides. You'll be able to effectively lead your team, by providing expert advice, guidance and support, as well manage performance.
A full UK driving licence is essential for this role as you'll be expected to undertake driving duties.

What We Can Offer You

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose fromseveralflexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains. Foran illustrative value of your benefits package,take a look at ourbenefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Mark Humphrey on 0116 454 3774 or email [e-mail]
Interviews / Assessments will take place on week commencing 14th of September