Day shifts Monday-Friday, early finish on Friday Seasonal until October 2019 £9 p/h rising to £10.54 after 12 weeks Do you enjoy the outdoors and looking for a varied role as a grounds maintenance worker? Have you got experience as a gardener or grounds worker? Are you looking to progress into gardening / grounds-work and have relevant skills? We are looking for an additional person to join a local grounds maintenance team in and around Bridgwater, Somerset for a seasonal role to run from May to October 2019. You should be a team player with a strong work ethic and take great pride in your work. You will: - Cover all aspects of grounds maintenance within parks, public spaces, cemeteries, highways, conservation areas, and other green environments. - Undertake grass cutting duties using hand and ride on mowers, strimmers and other equipment, ensuring parks, verges, open spaces and other sites are left clean, tidy and maintained. - Carry out general garden maintenance and horticultural duties, assisting in minor landscaping works such as the planting of shrubs and trees. - General maintenance work including cleaning hard surfaces, trimming and reducing hedges, cutting quality and amenity grass, maintaining beds and borders and assisting in the control of weed growth by the application of herbicides. - Use powered hand tools such as brush cutters, powered pruners, long reach pruners, pedestrian mowers etc. You will have: - Work experience within a grounds-work job role, or relative skills from another job role (outdoors / construction) - Have an understanding of the basic principles of garden, horticultural or grounds maintenance - Demonstrate the practical skills needed to operate powered hand tools safely - A full driving licence - Be physically fit and able to work outdoors - Ability to follow written works instructions and complete paper records accurately If you are interested in this role please apply with an up-to-date CV or contact Leanne in branch for an informal discussion.