Grade 3 General Labourer/Assistant Gardener, Merthyr Tydfil

Job Category: Catering & Hospitality
Location: Cyfarthfa Park, Team Leaders Office, Merthyr Tydfil, CF47 8RE
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Salary: £13.05

Qualified to a minimum of Level 2 City & Guilds or equivalent. To carry out horticultural and grounds maintenance duties across the County Borough to raise standards of public parks and open spaces. Report to either Team Leader or Charge Hand to discuss scheduled work programs and forward the work programme. You will also be required to be available to work within any departments within neighbourhood services as priorities require, which may include waste, highways, street cleansing, cemeteries and other duties commensurate with the grade.

• Carrying out a varied range of gardening duties, requiring a minimum amount of supervision and use of own initiative
• General grounds maintenance duties such as grass cutting, pedestrian and ride on mowers
• Use of hand tools such as strimmers, hedge cutters, blowers and any hand tool required to carry out the job
• Marking football fields
• Repairs to fine turf and playing surfaces
• Litter picking, bin emptying
• Assisting the arbo team when required
• Drive vehicles and pull trailers (with appropriate qualifications)
• Soil cultivation, digging, forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, litter and debris clearing
• Edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting
• Lawn maintenance and cultivation