Parks Grounds Maintenance Supervisor

Salary: Band: 8, £35,235 - £37,937 p.a.

37 hours per week

Monday - Friday but may be required to work some weekends.

Your New Role

The In-House Grounds Maintenance Operations Service is responsible for the maintenance of parks and open spaces, allotments, cemeteries, golf courses and semi-natural open space with assorted sports and play facilities within. The services also provides grounds maintenance services to Traded Services incorporating schools and social service locations.

Portsmouth’s parks and open spaces are of a high standard, fit for purpose, and they are maintained to meet the needs of Portsmouth’s residents and visitors. The services main priority is to maintain a high standard across all parks and open spaces and service areas.

In this varied and busy role your responsibilities will be to manage the day-to-day grounds maintenance operation within their area including all parks, gardens, sports fields (cricket, football, rugby, bowling greens, golf course, schools, cemeteries, and allotments). To ensure planned and ad hoc works are conducted in a safe manner following risk assessments and safe working procedures.

You will be responsible for leading a team of staff daily including weekends; identifying workloads within pre planned schedules and allocating tasks to individuals, ensuring work standards are maintained. As the Grounds Maintenance Supervisor you will be responsible to line manage staff including productivity, timekeeping and performance.

You will be dealing with public enquiries and site issues passed on by parks management team. You will provide improvement work proposals to key parks locations and assist with flower bedding designs and any parks and open spaces improvement schemes, and work with greening and biodiversity strategies.

The role not only includes front line management but also managing work schedules and ad hoc works and managing herbicide and pesticide usage. The role will also include attending various meetings with users of sports facilities, neighbourhood forums and volunteer and friends' groups.

For full details of what the requirements are of the role please read the job profile.

What you'll need to succeed

As well as holding a City & Guilds in Horticulture Phase 1 and 2 or equivalent experience, you will hold a PA1 & PA6 Spraying Certificate. You will have a knowledge of ground maintenance, horticultural operations and grass sports maintenance. You will be able to use a range of IT packages as well as being able to systematise and supervise multiple operational teams. You will be leading and be able to motivate both individuals and groups, whilst being flexible in order to meet the needs of the service. With a high level of organisational skills, you will be able to make quick thinking decisions when under pressure with the ability to adjust work schedules at short notice and delegate where needed. You will be self-motivated and have a strong character as you will be required to juggle various working demands/situations as a line manager, including updating and maintaining work instructions and records and organising and re-arranging working rotas including weekend working. In addition, you will be able to follow and instruct Health and Safety procedures and legislation. You will hold a full valid Driving Licence as you will be required to cover all areas of the city to ensure all work is undertaken to the standard required.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this exciting opportunity.

About Portsmouth City Council

What we can offer you:

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

Application process:

How to apply: Please read the full job profile for further details on the post and remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the profile. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Closing: 31 January 2025.

Applications received after this may not be considered.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.

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