Land Support Officer

Location: Welling

Job Description

Kick On Recruitment is working on behalf of our client to recruit a Land Support Officer to join their Land Support function at a large, multi-use outdoor site.

The site includes woodland, open spaces, landscaped gardens, water features and a range of buildings and facilities. While the role is broader than a traditional equestrian position, it does involve working alongside horses and other animals on site as part of a varied, outdoor-focused role.

The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining, developing and enhancing the land and facilities to a high professional standard, supporting the smooth and safe delivery of essential site services.

This position is well suited to someone who enjoys working outdoors and takes pride in delivering high-quality land and grounds maintenance across a diverse environment.

Role Responsibilities

Personal (Essential):

* Ensure daily maintenance schedules are carried out and completed

* Ensure any daily and weekly tasks allocated are carried out and completed

* Ensure any building maintenance tasks are carried out and completed

* Supporting any projects and developments

* Responding to any urgent tasks that are a risk to services and service users

* Ensure that site security procedures are adhered to, that risk assessments are carried out to a high standard and that the site management is kept as a top priority.

* Ensure all company assets, equipment and facilities are clean, tidy, well maintained and safe always.

* Ensure that any start and end of day procedures are adhered to and that the security of the company assets and materials are secured accordingly.

Team Responsibility:

* Effectively work alongside the senior managers and staff

* Reporting on a daily basis to the Land Support Supervisor

* Responding to senior management requests from contracted work

* Ensure as a team, all maintenance, tasks and projects are completed on time and to a professional standard

* To work across teams supporting other areas of the business when required

* Evaluating the effectiveness of procedures and producing constructive solution orientated feedback in team meetings

* Understand business processes and supporting systems, specifically Health and Safety and Safeguarding of vulnerable children and young people.

* Demonstrate an excellent level of understanding of the company portfolio of services.

* Assist in the project management of new initiatives, activities and developments

* Assist in the design and development of new initiatives, activities and developments

* Help develop procedures for working practice within the Land Support Team

Personal Development and Reporting:

* Ensure you update your 4-6 weekly PDP regularly in a timely fashion for management review and attend your Personal Development Plan (PDP) meeting with your line manager.

* Ensure that you attend team meetings as and when required which may be outside of your normal working hours to ensure that land support is not impacted.

* Be flexible to attend evening or weekend training that are outside of your contracted hours on occasion for CPD as required for your development within your role.

* You must be prepared if undertaking any professional training or personal development that the very best intentions and ability is given to ensure passing or attaining certification.

* Ensure that all Sickness or Absence is reported according to Company Procedures.

* Ensuring that Holiday Requests are processed according to Company Procedures.

Personal Development

This role has been specifically created to provide opportunities in several areas where there is a need to improve professional services. Those taking this role, after their probation and depending on their personal progress, will be offered to take on the following skill sets.

Landscape Design – An opportunity to learn professional landscape designing and horticultural designs.

Chainsaw Training - Training for arborist work on trees and large shrubs using large power tools.

Requirements

* Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a similar outdoor gardening-landscaping role.

* Proven experience and understand of working outside all year round in all weather.

* Ability to drive sit on lawnmower and or RV type vehicles.

* Ability to use power tools.

* Knowledge of plant and tree species and their care requirements.

Benefits

£28,500 - £30,000 Salary DOE

Wellbeing schemes

Private healthcare

Uniform coat

Loyalty holiday scheme

Training opportunities

Company pension scheme