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Skilled Landscape Supervisor - F660

Employer
Horticruitment
Location
Newbury, Berkshire
Salary
£23,500 - £25,000 DOE
Closing date
11 Oct 2018

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Job Details

Our client is an established commercial landscaping company operating for over 15 years creating, maintaining and improving landscapes for their customers. The company employs around 30 full time staff; they are BALI accredited with a head office based in the South of England. They currently have a vacancy for a Soft Landscape Supervisor to take responsibility for one of their site teams working in the Thames Valley with major house builders and prestigious commercial and domestic clients.

Job Description:

The person appointed will be responsible for supervising a small team of landscapers working on individual projects.

Your duties will include:

  • Ordering of materials and equipment.
  • Setting out the works from design drawings.
  • Complete tasks such as turfing, seeding and planting etc.
  • Using sound horticultural practices to maintain sites to the highest standard of finish
  • Delegating duties within the team and ensuring work is completed on time
  • Ensure that site operations are carried out in accordance with the company’s health and safety policy.
  • Maintain site records.

Key Skills:

Candidates must have excellent practical skills and sound horticultural knowledge in all areas of soft landscaping, with a good eye for detail and strong leadership skills. You will be able to demonstrate a successful track record of delivering high quality workmanship which is completed on time. It is also important that you have good communication skills, combined with a pro-active and flexible approach to your duties. A current driving licence is essential. CSCS card desirable along with experience operating machinery such as excavators, rotovators and a licence for towing an advantage.

Additional information:

28 days holiday plus an additional one day accrued after 2 years’ service up to a total of an additional 5 days.

Workplace pension and training courses.

If this position is of interest, please apply or contact the office and speak with Mark Bolam. 

Thank you for the interest you have shown in this Skilled Landscaper Supervisor vacancy.  Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not possible to respond to every one.  Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 14 days, your application for this Skilled Landscaper Supervisor vacancy will have been unsuccessful.

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About Horticruitment
Horticruitment is widely regarded as one of the leading "people-based" recruitment agencies resourcing top quality permanent staff for jobs in

  • Garden Centres & Independent Retailers
  • Landscape, FM & Environmental Companies
  • Nurseries & Commercial Growers
  • Private Estates
  • Sales & Marketing Organisations

For over 20 years Horticruitment has been the preferred supplier for many major companies and hundreds of horticultural based SMEs throughout the UK and abroad. We never forget that, at it's core, recruitment is all about people and not just databases and faceless job boards.

We have successfully placed staff at all levels throughout the UK and our international placements grow year on year.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01233 732767
Location
High House Business Park
High House Lane
Kenardington
Ashford
Kent
TN26 2LF
GB

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