Gardener/Driver / Bury / Temporary
Sure Start Staff are recruiting for an experienced Gardener/Driver to work in and around the Borough of Bury.
Standard DBS - Essential
Full UK DL - Essential
Role: Temporary
Pay: £11.59 per hour
Location: Bury
Hours: 8.00am - 4.30pm
Job Description
As a gardener/driver, you will be travelling around the Bury Borough carrying out various duties. To maintain the Authority's grounds following contract specifications, other tasks will include:
- To drive and be responsible for allocated vehicles, duties which would include vehicle checks, required maintenance and cleaning, transporting goods, equipment and personnel, assisting in loading and unloading vehicles and completion of associated paperwork.
- Whilst not driving, to undertake ancillary duties as appropriate to the type of work undertaken by the teams being serviced, which would include:
- Grass cutting, edging, weeding, hoeing, sweeping, raking, strimming, hedge clipping, clearing ditches and drains, digging, forking, watering, scarifying, rolling, manuring, clearance of rubbish, cleaning of buildings, site preparation, over-marking of sports areas, erecting and dismantling sports equipment, fertilising, simple pruning, supervised planting, supervised arboricultural work, supervised use of weedkillers and chemicals, supervised propagation, constructional labouring and other work of a similar type complementary to a more skilled operation undertaken by a higher graded gardener, the use of powered hand tools, ride on grass cutting machinery and light plan for these purposes when instructed.
- Assisting the higher-grade gardeners in their work when directed.
Skills and experience
- Must have previous gardening experience in a working environment.
- Experience of using handheld gardening tools including, strimmers, lawnmowers and ride-on mowers.
- Must be physically fit as you will be required to lift heavy machinery.
- Working outside in all weather conditions and seasons.
- H&S knowledge of hazardous chemicals, such as weedkiller.
- Working alone and as part of a team.
- Must have full UK driving licence.
- PA1 Pesticide certificate - desirable.
- PA6 Sparying Licence - desirable.
- Ride on mower experience - desirable.
- Local authority experience - desirable.
All our roles are subject to pre-employment checks including references.
- To apply for this position, please submit your updated CV outlining your employment history with dates, companies where you have worked including job titles and a summary of your duties and skills, alternatively call our office.
- Please note - due to the high number of applications we receive we are only able to respond to candidates that are successfully shortlisted for the position.
Sure Start Staff acts as an Employment Agency for permanent roles and an Employment Business for temporary opportunities