Location: Shepton Mallett

Job Tittle: Grave Digger

Hours: 40 hours per week

Pay: £9.50 per hour

HR GO Recruitment are looking for an ideal candidate to assist our client based in Somerset with ground maintenance as a Temp-Perm Grave Digger.

Role Responsibilities

• To be the first point of contact for Cemetery users and clients in person. To provide a high quality, welcoming and personable service, ensuring timely and appropriate responses to deliver customer satisfaction.
• To organise and undertake effectively and efficiently, appropriate levels of service delivery.
• To ensure that appropriate consideration is given to the beliefs of the funeral cortège, and the funeral party.
• To ensure that all grave digging and or grounds maintenance work meets appropriate standards, as direct by the supervising office, particularly, health and safety consideration as they apply to grave digging.
• To ensure appropriate consideration is given to the beliefs of the funeral cortège, and the funeral party.
• To maintain essential equipment and Depot areas in a proper condition
• To work effectively as a member of a team.

• To provide a grave digging service, including the safe excavation and shoring of graves as dictated by ground conditions.

• To ensure that all graves are suitable in dimensions to receive the casket or coffin prescribed.

Basic knowledge of and ability to carry out horticultural and or grounds person tasks.

• tree, shrub and bedding plant planting
• turfing and grass seed sowing
• turf care and mechanical operations
• hedge cutting and skilled shrub pruning
• chemical control spraying under direction

Ability to:

· excavate grave spaces and knowledge of dimensions and location of grave spaces, ensuring all graves are dug to for the required dimensions.

· to provide grave digging service, including the safe excavation and shoring as dictated by ground conditions.

· Ability to work in confined spaces and the use of ladders e.g., working in graves.

• move headstones/memorials with suitable tools available

Essential

• Valid driving license and ability to drive a car and or van

Rewards

Full training and development opportunities will be provided for the right candidate.