Job Description

Team Leader - Grounds maintenance

Job title: Team Leader - Grounds maintenance

Report to: Depot Managers

Key responsibilities:

Managing a team on specific projects and/or properties, to make sure jobs are completed to a high standard, maximising the team’s onsite productivity using the full range of practical skills required for maintenance and soft landscaping.
Interact with the nominated contracts manager (and other contract managers as necessary) to ensure teams are fully equipped to undertake the site visits each day & are despatched efficiently & on time. To include:-

· Job sheets

· Special requirements and any additional work instructions

· Equipment required

Number of operatives with relevant skills required
Site specific method statements & risk assessments are in place & fully understood.
Agree optimal route planning.
Day diaries are complete.
Complete over-time sheets

o Managing your team whilst on site (including travel to & from)

· Ensuring the productivity of the team; jobs are completed to a high standard, including any special instructions within the time frame agreed.

· Operatives are aware & fully comply with all Health & Safety and environmental requirements. Required protective clothing/equipment to be worn at all times.

· Proactively identify any additional onsite requirements; take action to undertake additional work if required during the site visit , if timescales allow.

· Provide feedback to the nominated Contracts Manager (and other contract managers as necessary) on any additional work undertaken or required, to agree any further action and communication to the client.

· Liaise with nominated contracts manager to ensure any special requirements are completed, issues are resolved, providing relevant additional information/feedback.

· Providing full Job status information & updates – via the mobile App/device provided.

· Job status updates – to be fully completed & clearly communicated in real time using mobile app/device provided.

· Real time updates to show when teams are travelling , on-site , undertaking work, when jobs are completed. Providing before & after photos, with any other relevant site or client information .

· You will be responsible to ensure that all data is input correctly into the mobile App/device provided and on time- either directly or by one of your team .

o Be the first point of call for the nominated Contract Manager – establish a clear 2-way communication to understand any on site requirements , special instructions , resolving issues & customer complaints. To communicate & be able to react to any changing conditions or issues.

Develop onsite client relationships – keeping the Contracts Manager (and other contracts managers as necessary) fully informed & agree any additional actions or communications that are required. This also to apply to any 3rd parties onsite.

o On site responsibilities will include developing your team members skills and speed required to complete onsite tasks within the allocated time frames. A strong focus on onsite productivity and time management. Above all keeping them motivated & performing to a high standard.

You will be required to develop other team members range of plant knowledge and gardening techniques such as:
Lawn mowing, lawn height reduction.
Strimming banks, open spaces, lawns and edges.
Defining/re-defining lawn edges, border creation.
Aeration
Top dressing and over seeding.
Hedge cutting, hedge height reduction.
Mechanical weed control.
Chemical weed control.
Assist with PA1 & PA6 development.
Border maintenance.
Hard surface operations, including mechanical moss removal.
Powered tools.
Other general gardening operations including all hand tools required for all company operations.
Any other tasks as necessary to support the work of the company and raise the profile of Bennett Landscapes.

Key skills and attributes:

Landscape / Grounds Maintenance experience.
A full UK driving licence and ideally a trailer licence.
Experience of leading a landscape maintenance team
Proactive attitude & be a natural problem solver

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £27,476.80 per year

Benefits:

Company car
Company pension
Free parking
On-site parking
Referral programme
Opportunity to gain 5 extra days Holiday

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

Driving Licence (required)

Ability to Commute:

Birmingham (required)

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From £27,476.80 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Free parking
On-site parking
Referral programme

Work Location: In person

Confidential

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