Grounds Person

Full time
Open ended

The time limit for purposes is midnight on Thursday 04 April 2024
Interviews are anticipated to happen on Tuesday 16 April and Wednesday 17 April 2024

There may be an expectation that work can be undertaken within the UK.

This position will not be eligible for sponsorship. Candidates require to have present proper to work within the UK.

The College of Stirling recognises {that a} numerous workforce advantages and enriches the work, studying and analysis experiences of all the campus and larger group. We’re dedicated to eradicating boundaries and welcome purposes from those that would contribute to additional diversification of our employees and be certain that equality, variety and inclusion is woven into the substance of the position. We strongly encourage purposes from folks from numerous backgrounds together with gender, identification, race, age, class, and ethnicity.

The Publish

The submit holder as a member of the Grounds Upkeep Division will keep and additional develop the College’s 330 acre property which is designated throughout the Stock of Gardens of Historic Significance. The panorama makes a big contribution to College life and is used each day by our college students, employees and the group for a variety of educational, analysis, sporting and leisure actions. This distinctive panorama contributes significantly to enriching the College campus expertise.

The submit holder will report on to the Assistant Grounds Upkeep Supervisor and can work with different grounds individuals and apprentices effectively, successfully and safely. The submit holder ought to have a superb understanding of turf administration and upkeep necessities for sports activities services each pure and synthetic surfaces together with soccer, rugby and hockey pitches, tennis courts, operating monitor and golf course. The submit holder must also have expertise in backyard upkeep duties together with weeding, pruning bushes & shrubs, hedge reducing, strimming, mulching borders and tree & shrub clearance. The submit holder must also have good communication expertise and the power to work with a workforce and handle oneself.

Description of Duties

The next listing of duties aren’t an exhaustive listing of duties the submit holder will undertake however to supply an outline of the kind of actions the submit holder will undertake every day:

• Golf course upkeep together with grass reducing with pedestrian and journey on mowers, scarifying, aerating, topdressing, seeding, turfing, feeding and irrigating
• Soccer and rugby pitch upkeep together with grass reducing with pedestrian and journey on mowers, scarifying, aerating, topdressing, divoting, seeding, turfing, feeding and line marking
• Sustaining decorative and amenity grass areas across the campus together with reducing, edging and strimming on a weekly foundation and seasonal upkeep together with scarifying, aerating, topdressing, seeding, turfing, feeding and irrigating
• Backyard upkeep of exterior courtyards, arboretum, backyard of time, residential and workplace block areas, it will embrace, weeding, planting, mulching, feeding, watering, pruning, hedge reducing, strimming
• Aiding with weekly upkeep of synthetic sport surfaces together with MUGA, clay tennis courts, operating monitor, 3G soccer pitch and sand stuffed hockey pitch
• Aiding with erecting and dismantling soccer and rugby posts
• Aiding with organising cross nation runs for college students and business shoppers
• Occasional plant nursery work together with, elevating hardy nursery inventory vegetation from seed and cuttings, pricking out, potting on, division of vegetation, feeding and watering
• Loch and pond upkeep
• Spraying herbicides and algaecides and utilizing organic management
• Keep the grounds of the Universities exterior services
• Campus autumn & winter upkeep together with, leaf clearing, hedge reducing, tree and shrub pruning and removing, re landscaping areas, eradicating ivy from partitions, drainage instillations on sports activities areas, energy washing golf tees and onerous landscaped areas
• Winter street, path and automotive park upkeep together with snow clearing and gritting manually and by mechanical means i.e. tractor plough and gritting machines. It will embrace out of hours winter snow clearance and gritting on a rotational foundation
• Every day and weekly upkeep of automobiles and equipment
• Make sure the tools used is secure and properly maintained and report any defects to the Assistant Grounds Upkeep Supervisor
• Help different members of the Grounds Upkeep workforce, the broader Estates and Campus Companies workforce and different College Directorates and Colleges when required
• Help in making ready for and staffing of occasions together with commencement ceremonies, household welcome days, sports activities occasions, conferences, open days and so forth.
• Different duties will embrace sweeping, litter choosing, emptying bins
• Perform every other cheap duties required to contribute to the work of the Directorate

The above duties can be carried out in accordance with all departmental and College well being and security insurance policies and danger assessments for all duties carried out each day. The submit holder can be required to undertake job particular dynamic danger assessments every day. Well being and security coaching can be given as and when applicable

The Grounds Upkeep Division kind a part of the Estates and Campus Companies Directorate, the submit holder throughout busy intervals, occasions and emergency conditions would require to work throughout the Directorate

Important Standards

• Maintain an expert qualification to a minimal of stage 2 in Groundsmanship, Greenkeeping or Horticulture
• Good oral and written communication expertise
• Capable of undertake a variety of duties as a result of demanding bodily position of the submit
• Maintain a PA1 & PA6 NPTC spraying certificates
• Maintain a present driving licence
• Skill to make use of a variety of backyard instruments, equipment and automobiles together with, strimmers, hedge cutters, blowers, pedestrian mowers, scarifiers, aerators, rotovators, utility automobiles with trailers, tractors with trailers and implements, journey on mowers and works vans
• Capable of work as a part of a workforce and by yourself and be self motivated
• Be versatile to work out of hours
• Work on a rotation system for out of hours winter upkeep i.e. treating of ice and clearing snow on paths and roads
• Have an understanding of Well being & Security laws together with COSHH and Danger Assessments
• Pc literate and aware of normal desk-top computing (MS Workplace and so forth.)
• Bodily Effort/Working Situations

The submit requires a excessive diploma of bodily effort and a capability to work outdoor in all climate situations always of the 12 months.

NOTE: Grounds employees are required to reply to emergencies outdoors regular working hours e.g. tree clearing, flood works, snow clearing and gritting. The submit holder can be required to hold out these duties and be on a rotation system with their colleagues for early morning and night winter upkeep duties.

Fascinating Standards

• Maintain a chainsaw certificates

About Us

Estates & Campus Companies has duty for the longer-term growth, upkeep, and day after day operation of the buildings and grounds which help and add worth to the core actions of the College.  This entails offering skilled, customer-focused companies spanning the next actions with a view to maximising worth and effectivity and making certain that the standard of the property contributes to the College’s total popularity:

• Improvement of the property in step with the strategic priorities of the College
• Upkeep of the constructing cloth, companies and grounds
• All legislative necessities
• Vitality administration
• Grounds and sports activities services upkeep
• Safety and the administration of automotive parking
• Provision of reception and misplaced property companies
• Security, enterprise continuity and environmental sustainability

The College

The College of Stirling is dedicated to offering training with a goal and finishing up analysis which has a optimistic influence on communities throughout the globe – addressing actual points, offering options, and serving to to form society. Stirling is 4th in Scotland and forty third within the UK for analysis influence, with 87% of its analysis having an impressive or very appreciable influence on society – and greater than 80% rated both world main or internationally wonderful (Analysis Excellence Framework 2021).

The College of Stirling is ranked among the many high 30 UK universities for scholar satisfaction (Nationwide Scholar Survey) and high 30 within the UK for postgraduate scholar expertise (Postgraduate Taught Expertise Survey), and has an total five-star ranking within the QS Stars College Scores.

Greater than 17,000 college students research with the College of Stirling globally, with over 140 nationalities represented on its scenic central Scotland campus alone. The College – additionally residence to 1,700 employees – is ranked first within the UK and high three on the earth for its campus surroundings (Worldwide Scholar Barometer 2022, wave two). Ranked first within the UK and high 5 on the earth for its sports activities services (Worldwide Scholar Barometer 2022, wave two), Stirling is Scotland’s College for Sporting Excellence. Its world-class services present the proper coaching surroundings for the College’s sports activities students – lots of whom compete on the highest stage, together with on the Olympics and Commonwealth Video games – and for college students, employees, and the broader group.

The College has twice been recognised with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize – the primary for its Institute for Social Advertising and Well being (2014) and the second for its Institute of Aquaculture (2019).

The College is a signatory to the £214 million Stirling and Clackmannanshire Metropolis Area Deal and a central accomplice of the Forth Valley College School Well being Partnership.
www.stir.ac.uk @stiruni

Job quantity

SERV01886

Contract Kind

Open Ended

Posting Finish Date

04-Apr-2024

Location:

Stirling Campus

Grade

Grade4 £22,681-£24,533 p.a.

College/Service

Estates and Campus Companies

Publish Particulars

Full time
Open ended

The time limit for purposes is midnight on Thursday 04 April 2024
Interviews are anticipated to happen on Tuesday 16 April and Wednesday 17 April 2024

There may be an expectation that work can be undertaken within the UK.

This position will not be eligible for sponsorship. Candidates require to have present proper to work within the UK.

The College of Stirling recognises {that a} numerous workforce advantages and enriches the work, studying and analysis experiences of all the campus and larger group. We’re dedicated to eradicating boundaries and welcome purposes from those that would contribute to additional diversification of our employees and be certain that equality, variety and inclusion is woven into the substance of the position. We strongly encourage purposes from folks from numerous backgrounds together with gender, identification, race, age, class, and ethnicity.

The Publish

The submit holder as a member of the Grounds Upkeep Division will keep and additional develop the College’s 330 acre property which is designated throughout the Stock of Gardens of Historic Significance. The panorama makes a big contribution to College life and is used each day by our college students, employees and the group for a variety of educational, analysis, sporting and leisure actions. This distinctive panorama contributes significantly to enriching the College campus expertise.

The submit holder will report on to the Assistant Grounds Upkeep Supervisor and can work with different grounds individuals and apprentices effectively, successfully and safely. The submit holder ought to have a superb understanding of turf administration and upkeep necessities for sports activities services each pure and synthetic surfaces together with soccer, rugby and hockey pitches, tennis courts, operating monitor and golf course. The submit holder must also have expertise in backyard upkeep duties together with weeding, pruning bushes & shrubs, hedge reducing, strimming, mulching borders and tree & shrub clearance. The submit holder must also have good communication expertise and the power to work with a workforce and handle oneself.

Description of Duties

The next listing of duties aren’t an exhaustive listing of duties the submit holder will undertake however to supply an outline of the kind of actions the submit holder will undertake every day:

• Golf course upkeep together with grass reducing with pedestrian and journey on mowers, scarifying, aerating, topdressing, seeding, turfing, feeding and irrigating
• Soccer and rugby pitch upkeep together with grass reducing with pedestrian and journey on mowers, scarifying, aerating, topdressing, divoting, seeding, turfing, feeding and line marking
• Sustaining decorative and amenity grass areas across the campus together with reducing, edging and strimming on a weekly foundation and seasonal upkeep together with scarifying, aerating, topdressing, seeding, turfing, feeding and irrigating
• Backyard upkeep of exterior courtyards, arboretum, backyard of time, residential and workplace block areas, it will embrace, weeding, planting, mulching, feeding, watering, pruning, hedge reducing, strimming
• Aiding with weekly upkeep of synthetic sport surfaces together with MUGA, clay tennis courts, operating monitor, 3G soccer pitch and sand stuffed hockey pitch
• Aiding with erecting and dismantling soccer and rugby posts
• Aiding with organising cross nation runs for college students and business shoppers
• Occasional plant nursery work together with, elevating hardy nursery inventory vegetation from seed and cuttings, pricking out, potting on, division of vegetation, feeding and watering
• Loch and pond upkeep
• Spraying herbicides and algaecides and utilizing organic management
• Keep the grounds of the Universities exterior services
• Campus autumn & winter upkeep together with, leaf clearing, hedge reducing, tree and shrub pruning and removing, re landscaping areas, eradicating ivy from partitions, drainage instillations on sports activities areas, energy washing golf tees and onerous landscaped areas
• Winter street, path and automotive park upkeep together with snow clearing and gritting manually and by mechanical means i.e. tractor plough and gritting machines. It will embrace out of hours winter snow clearance and gritting on a rotational foundation
• Every day and weekly upkeep of automobiles and equipment
• Make sure the tools used is secure and properly maintained and report any defects to the Assistant Grounds Upkeep Supervisor
• Help different members of the Grounds Upkeep workforce, the broader Estates and Campus Companies workforce and different College Directorates and Colleges when required
• Help in making ready for and staffing of occasions together with commencement ceremonies, household welcome days, sports activities occasions, conferences, open days and so forth.
• Different duties will embrace sweeping, litter choosing, emptying bins
• Perform every other cheap duties required to contribute to the work of the Directorate

The above duties can be carried out in accordance with all departmental and College well being and security insurance policies and danger assessments for all duties carried out each day. The submit holder can be required to undertake job particular dynamic danger assessments every day. Well being and security coaching can be given as and when applicable

The Grounds Upkeep Division kind a part of the Estates and Campus Companies Directorate, the submit holder throughout busy intervals, occasions and emergency conditions would require to work throughout the Directorate

Important Standards

• Maintain an expert qualification to a minimal of stage 2 in Groundsmanship, Greenkeeping or Horticulture
• Good oral and written communication expertise
• Capable of undertake a variety of duties as a result of demanding bodily position of the submit
• Maintain a PA1 & PA6 NPTC spraying certificates
• Maintain a present driving licence
• Skill to make use of a variety of backyard instruments, equipment and automobiles together with, strimmers, hedge cutters, blowers, pedestrian mowers, scarifiers, aerators, rotovators, utility automobiles with trailers, tractors with trailers and implements, journey on mowers and works vans
• Capable of work as a part of a workforce and by yourself and be self motivated
• Be versatile to work out of hours
• Work on a rotation system for out of hours winter upkeep i.e. treating of ice and clearing snow on paths and roads
• Have an understanding of Well being & Security laws together with COSHH and Danger Assessments
• Pc literate and aware of normal desk-top computing (MS Workplace and so forth.)
• Bodily Effort/Working Situations

The submit requires a excessive diploma of bodily effort and a capability to work outdoor in all climate situations always of the 12 months.

NOTE: Grounds employees are required to reply to emergencies outdoors regular working hours e.g. tree clearing, flood works, snow clearing and gritting. The submit holder can be required to hold out these duties and be on a rotation system with their colleagues for early morning and night winter upkeep duties.

Fascinating Standards

• Maintain a chainsaw certificates

About Us

Estates & Campus Companies has duty for the longer-term growth, upkeep, and day after day operation of the buildings and grounds which help and add worth to the core actions of the College.  This entails offering skilled, customer-focused companies spanning the next actions with a view to maximising worth and effectivity and making certain that the standard of the property contributes to the College’s total popularity:

• Improvement of the property in step with the strategic priorities of the College
• Upkeep of the constructing cloth, companies and grounds
• All legislative necessities
• Vitality administration
• Grounds and sports activities services upkeep
• Safety and the administration of automotive parking
• Provision of reception and misplaced property companies
• Security, enterprise continuity and environmental sustainability

The College

The College of Stirling is dedicated to offering training with a goal and finishing up analysis which has a optimistic influence on communities throughout the globe – addressing actual points, offering options, and serving to to form society. Stirling is 4th in Scotland and forty third within the UK for analysis influence, with 87% of its analysis having an impressive or very appreciable influence on society – and greater than 80% rated both world main or internationally wonderful (Analysis Excellence Framework 2021).

The College of Stirling is ranked among the many high 30 UK universities for scholar satisfaction (Nationwide Scholar Survey) and high 30 within the UK for postgraduate scholar expertise (Postgraduate Taught Expertise Survey), and has an total five-star ranking within the QS Stars College Scores.

Greater than 17,000 college students research with the College of Stirling globally, with over 140 nationalities represented on its scenic central Scotland campus alone. The College – additionally residence to 1,700 employees – is ranked first within the UK and high three on the earth for its campus surroundings (Worldwide Scholar Barometer 2022, wave two). Ranked first within the UK and high 5 on the earth for its sports activities services (Worldwide Scholar Barometer 2022, wave two), Stirling is Scotland’s College for Sporting Excellence. Its world-class services present the proper coaching surroundings for the College’s sports activities students – lots of whom compete on the highest stage, together with on the Olympics and Commonwealth Video games – and for college students, employees, and the broader group.

The College has twice been recognised with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize – the primary for its Institute for Social Advertising and Well being (2014) and the second for its Institute of Aquaculture (2019).

The College is a signatory to the £214 million Stirling and Clackmannanshire Metropolis Area Deal and a central accomplice of the Forth Valley College School Well being Partnership.
www.stir.ac.uk @stiruni

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