Gardener and Grounds Person

We are seeking a motivated and professional Gardener and Grounds Person to join our friendly gardens team. The role involves taking care of the grounds maintenance for the Caravan park and Blair Castle Gardens. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a renowned and historic environment where you will be working alongside guests and visitors.

Main responsibilities and duties

• The chief share of the role is mowing and strimming.
• You will be operating commercial size ride on and pedestrian mowers.
• Use of garden machinery as necessary including pedestrian mowers, strimmer's, hedge cutters, tractor and trailers, and other plant machinery.
• Further assistance to the garden team will involve maintaining beds and borders in the surrounding gardens and other occasional landscaping tasks.
• Upholding professional standards within a public environment to ensure the grounds are kept to a high quality.

Experience required

• Operating powers tools including but not limited to mowers and strimmer's in a professional environment.
• Minimum one year's trade experience.
• Clean UK driving licence.
• Knowledge of machine maintenance, both 2 and 4 stroke machinery.
• First aid training.
• Spraying tickets - ideally PA1 & PA6.
• Hedge Cutting experience.
• Chainsaw experience.

Employee benefits

• Attractive, competitive salary, supported by an excellent company pension scheme.
• Other benefits include free tickets to: Atholl Gathering and Highland Games and Blair Castle and Gardens.
• Discounts off: The Larder, Castle Gift Shop, Restaurant, fishing and more.
• Join in on great social and wellbeing initiates including, a staff book club, summer BBQ, fireworks BBQ and quiz nights.

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now and seize this incredible opportunity to join our team.