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Job title: Gardener
Location: Queen's Park, Loughborough, LE11 3BJ
Hourly Rate: 12.75
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Monday - Thursday 07:30-16:00, Friday 07:30-12:30
Manpower are recruiting for Gardeners to work for our client based out of Queens Park in Loughborough. Working in this role you will be responsible for the overall management and maintenance of gardens and landscaped areas. This role involves maintaining the park to ensure it is aesthetically pleasing, healthy, and thriving. You will provide your own grounds maintenance services in the park, as well as oversee a supplement team of gardeners, ensuring proper horticultural practices are followed and grounds maintenance work is undertaken to the highest of standards. You will also manage resources efficiently, while being the point of contact for stakeholders.
Requirements
- Good horticultural knowledge.
- Proven experience of managing a large garden or estate.
- A good knowledge of grounds maintenance and machinery.
- Good communication and customer service skills.
- Overall understanding of health and safety procedures.
- A full, clean UK driving license.
- Relevant Horticulture qualifications e.g. NVQ Level 3.
Benefits
- 21 days holiday plus bank holidays. Adapt according to role.
- Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave.
- Support for personal and professional challenges.
- Discounts on retail, holidays, gym memberships, and more.
- Colleague of the month and annual awards.
- Two days per year to support a cause of your choice.
- Comprehensive resources and support.
About our client:
You will work for a company that genuinely cares and has a strong Sustainability Strategy with a focus on responsibility at the heart of their three pillars of People, Planet and Performance. Our client is Europe's leading provider of soft landscaping services and landscape creation projects. As the top soft landscaping provider in the UK, they offer a comprehensive range of services, including professional open space management, soft landscaping design and build, tree surgery, civil engineering, outdoor facilities management, biodiversity management, and waterways management.
Apply now and a member of our Team will be in contact!
