Grounds Maintenance Team Leader

Regenda Group; Oldham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading maintenance company in the UK is seeking a Team Leader to oversee gardening and grounds maintenance. The role involves supervising staff, ensuring quality service, and conducting repairs. Candidates should have relevant horticultural experience, supervisory skills, and a valid UK driving license. The company offers flexibility, a supportive environment, and a comprehensive benefits package including annual leave, pension contributions, and more.

Benefits

27 days paid leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Learning and development opportunities

Interest-free loans for tools and equipment

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in horticulture or landscape maintenance.
• Minimum two years supervisory experience required.
• Possession of a full UK driving licence is essential.
• Knowledge of safe equipment use.
• Trained in manual handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of manual staff in gardening duties.
• Carry out grounds maintenance and general repairs.
• Supervise team activities and maintain records.

Skills

Horticulture experience

Supervisory experience

Customer service

Organizational skills

Tools

Lawnmowers

Strimmers

Hedge trimmers

Hand tools

Job description

Overview

Annual salary of 28431 (FTE). Permanent, Full-time (39 hours). Field based role working across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

Proposed Interview Date: W / C 8th December 2025.

The role

The purpose of this role is to be responsible for leading a team of manual staff carrying out gardening and grounds maintenance duties. You will be required to carry out gardening grounds maintenance and other general repairs whilst also line managing one or more team members. This role will require you to supervise and be responsible for a team of manual staff carrying out gardening and grounds maintenance duties whilst keeping appropriate records of the team\'s activities. A full list of the day-to-day responsibilities can be found in the attached role profile.

The right fit

• You will have demonstrable experience of horticulture and/or landscape maintenance with at least two years supervisory experience.
• A full UK driving licence is essential for this role.
• Possession of pesticide application certificate.
• Knowledge of horticultural procedures and the safe use of equipment such as lawnmowers, strimmers, hedge trimmers and hand tools.
• Trained in manual handling.
• You will have the ability to organise and co-ordinate the activities of others to achieve specific aims.
• Commitment to excellent customer service.
• Ability to deliver training to team members.
• Experience of dealing with the public on a regular basis.
• Experience of working to deadlines and agreed targets.

Who we are

M&Y Maintenance and Construction provides responsive repairs, planned works, renewables, facilities management and new build services to clients across the North West.

Over 40 years we\'ve grown from a small family-run business into a multimillion-pound company employing over 200 permanent employees.

M&Y Maintenance and Construction is part of The Regenda Group; we work in places where we can make a difference and operate across the housing and construction sector in care and support and in education, training and careers.

Next steps

If you like what you\'ve read so far and think you\'ve got what it takes to join our team then apply now with a copy of your CV and a short covering letter detailing why you think you would be a good fit for the role. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in touch shortly.

What we offer

M&Y Maintenance and Construction really is a great place to work and you don\'t have to just take our word for it! We\'re accredited by Best Companies for our world class levels of staff engagement and have been consistently named as one of the Best Companies to Work For in the North West.

We can offer you a working environment where you can enjoy yourself, develop yourself and be yourself, and where you really can make a difference to people\'s lives.

We also offer a fantastic reward and benefits package which amongst other things includes:

• A range of flexible working options.
• 27 days paid annual leave (rising one day per year after 3, 5 and 7 years service) in addition to 8 bank holidays.
• 6 additional days for volunteering.
• Long-term and serious illness payment support scheme.
• Up to 9% employers contribution to the pension scheme (match funded).
• 250 annual Live and Learn allowance to spend on learning any new skill.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes.
• Employee Assistance Programme and health and wellbeing initiatives.
• A wide variety of exciting learning and development opportunities.
• Interest free loans to assist with the purchase of tools, computer equipment and travel season tickets.
• Monthly staff lottery scheme.

We regenerate places and create opportunities for people

We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, minority ethnic, LGBT and female candidates as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested we\'d encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

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The Company

M&Y Maintenance and Construction provides responsive repairs, planned works, renewables and new build services to clients across the North West. We are proud of our reputation as an established, award-winning, reliable and responsive maintenance provider.

We employ over 200 permanent employees across our state-of-the-art head office in St Helens and our local depots in Oldham and Poulton-le-Fylde.

M&Y Maintenance and Construction is a wholly owned commercial subsidiary of Regenda Ltd.

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Key Skills

Hyperion, Acquisition, Asset, ABAP, Basic, Activex

Employment Type : Unclear

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 25001 - 30000