Skilled Landscaper

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £24,000 - £28,000 per year

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

We are looking for a Skilled Landscaper with hands-on knowledge and Experience to join our growing Projects team. CPS Grounds Ltd are a leading and well-established Grounds Management company, who also fulfil a range of landscaping and outdoor projects. Working primarily within the education and sports facilities sector, we maintain over 200 schools and sports grounds, as well as hotels, leisure centres, industrial parks grounds and housing estates in the Bristol, Somerset, Bath and South Gloucestershire areas. If you are a creative and practical person with the ability to deliver both functional and beautiful projects, this could be an exciting role for you. If you are an experienced, skilled Landscaper and are looking for a new opportunity then we would love to hear from you!

About the Role:

• Responsible for delivering the varying disciplines of landscape projects the business undertake to include hard and soft landscaping.
• You will have skills in hard landscaping to include elements such as wet trades like cement, patio laying and brick or stonework, and ground work skills including being competent using a digger for hard core/aggregate construction, decking and basic carpentry.
• You will be carrying out duties such as planting trees and shrubs, turfing, seeding, mulching, topsoil installation, fencing, grass cutting & maintenance and ground preparation at various locations in a predominantly commercial environment.
• Delivers projects in a timely and professional manner.
• Physical delivery of the projects and assisting with pricing works where necessary.
• Good communication skills across team members, external trades, clients and designers.
• Maintain in good and safe working order all tools, vehicles, plant, equipment and machinery on site. We’ll maintained tools mean jobs are easier to compete to a high standard.

Desirable Experience:

• 2 years’ experience within a similar role.
• Both hard and soft landscaping experience.
• Evidence of previous work i.e. portfolio or pictures etc.
• Understanding of health and safety, risk assessments, working in schools around children etc.
• Competent with related tools & equipment i.e. digger or dumper driving, hand tools etc.
• Trailer licence.

In Return we Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• 23 days’ holiday and paid bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• CPS Grounds uniform provided
• PPE supplied
• Excellent training and career development opportunities
• Company events
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bristol: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)