Landscape Gardener

Merlin Entertainments; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Merlin Entertainments is seeking a Landscape Gardener to join their Technical Services Landscape team at Thorpe Park. In this key role, you will focus on maintaining high landscaping standards and ensuring guest safety across the attraction. Ideal candidates will hold relevant qualifications, have extensive experience, and demonstrate excellent organizational skills.

Benefits

Merlin Annual Pass

Merlin Magic Pass

28 days holiday

Company bonus

Private pension scheme

40% discount online off LEGO

25% discount in on-site shops

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 5 years experience of horticultural or grounds maintenance.
• City and Guilds level 2 or RHS level 2 preferred.
• Experience in Arboriculture or conservation within parkland.

Responsibilities

• Support presentation and maintenance of plant areas.
• Ensure ride area safety through clearance maintenance.
• Use landscaping machinery safely and efficiently.

Skills

Horticultural maintenance experience

Organisational skills

Education

City and Guilds level 2

RHS level 2 qualifications

Job description

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Location: THORPE PARK Resort, KT16 8PN

Hours: 40 Hours per week, will include weekend work, early shifts

Salary: £26,000

This is a key role within our busy Technical Services Landscape and conservation team. You will help the Landscape and conservation department to deliver excellent levels of soft and hard landscaping, ensuring Thorpe Park Resort is efficiently presented to the highest standards possible. You will be encouraged to work closely, safely and flexibly with your colleagues from all Technical Services teams if required, principally supporting hard landscaping activities and ride area maintenance.

Responsibilities

• To support in the presentation and preparation of any planting areas throughout the park. This will include caring for and maintaining existing plant stock at the farm in preparation for planting.
• Maintaining Ride Area safety – ensuring ride clearances are always fully and appropriately maintained, identifying, and supporting manager with any Arboriculture or other works required. Ride stoppage due to plant growth encroaching into ride envelope is unsafe, expensive and effects guest experience.
• Using the wide range of landscaping machinery available, safely and efficiently maintain grass and hedging throughout the guest facing areas to the highest standard. For back of house areas, grass and hedge maintenance standards of maintenance need to be balanced within budgets considerations.
• Supporting fencing or pavement repairs and reinstatement where needed within landscape areas, supporting, or controlling contractors through larger projects as required.
• Support your team to help develop robust safe systems of work that will support a safety-first culture within your team.
• Ensure all landscaping equipment is safe to use, inspect and maintain as required, working with your manager to develop planned maintenance with support from contractors (Farols) as required.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

• 5 years experience of horticultural or grounds maintenance
• City and Guilds level 2, RHS level 2 qualifications or equivalent level of workplace experience within Horticulture preferable.
• PA1 & 6 preferable
• Experience in either Arboriculture, hard landscaping, or Conservation within parkland environment desirable.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work using your own initiative, in the absence of management being available to guide or support
  
  

Benefits

• ‘Enjoy the Ride’ Merlin Annual Passes - 6 in total per year, 1 for you, plus 5 to gift to loved ones!
• Merlin Magic Pass - 20 free tickets for you, your family and friends to enjoy all our Merlin Attractions across the world rising to 40 after a year’s service
• 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Company bonus
• Private pension scheme
• 40% discount online off LEGO
• 25% discount in our on-site retail shops and restaurants
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Plus, many more…
  
  

This role is a full-time role, averaging 40 hours per week. Although this is largely a Monday-Friday role, due to the nature of the business this will include weekends, bank holidays and some late evenings as required.

If you have any questions or if you require any assistance, because of a disability or medical condition, please contact us by email at [e-mail] and one of the team will get back to you as soon as possible.

Pay Range

GBP £26,000.00/Yr.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Entertainment Providers

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