Grounds Team Assistant

Job Title: Grounds Team Assistant
Reporting to: Trails & Estates Manager
Supervisory Duties: N/A
Type of contract: Casual

About Bike Park Wales

Bike Park Wales is the UK’s number one mountain bike facility located at Merthyr Tydfil on the edge of the Brecon Beacons national park just 25 minutes north of central Cardiff. The park is now an internationally recognised destination and a mecca for mountain bikers, descending on Myndd Gethin, a 491-metre summit.

Bike Park Wales is a young, successful business which is growing fast. The current offering includes over 40 world class mountain bike trails, a vehicular uplift service, café, bike shop, bike hire, coaching and events but an ambitious development plan is now underway to both improve the existing services and add new products to the existing site.

The Role

We are looking for an energetic, responsible, and organised individual to join the Trail Crew as a Grounds Team assistant. The focus of the role will be suppressing dust during operational days, providing a better service for the uplift department and customers, whilst ensuring safe operation of machinery and equipment. There may also be a need for you to assist in the Trail Crew general works across the park.

You will work as part of a team to complete a variety of tasks, including but not limited to, operating excavators, dumpers & brush cutters, and using hand tools, so individuals need to be physically fit for the role. Team members should be strong team players yet remain self-motivated and able to work productively with limited supervision.

Duties and Responsibilities to include:

• Operating a tractor and bowser system to suppress dust during the summer periods
• Assist in various works around the visitor’s centre, forest roads and during emergency first aid responder situations
• Maintaining plant and equipment to a high standard by way of daily and weekly inspections, reporting any damage or concern to an appropriate senior member of TC staff
• Showing excellent awareness of health and safety throughout all aspects of work, communicating to supervisors or managers if any H&S concerns are identified and require action or attention.
• Wearing basic PPE at all times when performing work and appropriate task specific PPE when required
• Following Safe working Practices, Risk assessments and method statements and instructions from senior team members.
• Taking pride in their work and completing all tasks to the same high Bike Park standard regardless of the size or type of job
• Working as part of the team with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude
• Working in a task focussed manner to achieve the overall aim of maintaining the trail network in excellent condition and evolving it as per the Trail Masterplan document to keep customers excited to return
• Being willing to learn and develop skills and knowledge via internal and external training and courses. Also, by means of toolbox talks and discussions

Key focuses for the role

• Providing weekend cover to ensure dust suppression is happening during operational days.

General team duties:

• To adhere to existing working practices, methods, procedures, undertake relevant training and development activities and to respond positively to new and alternative systems.
• To co-operate with relevant health and safety legislation, policies and procedures in the performance of the duties of the post.
• To carry out the duties and responsibilities of the post in compliance with the Company’s equal opportunities policies.
• To maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and associated guidelines where appropriate.
• To understand and comply with the Company’s environmental policies
• To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the overall function, commensurate with the grading and level of responsibilities of the post
• To be able to operate a tractor safely and efficiently.
• Understand and have an in date Aquam water safety certificate.
• Physically fit and strong to carry out manual tasks.
• A hard working and adaptable manner, with a solid common-sense approach
• Ability to communicate in the Welsh language
• First Aid Qualification
• 360 excavator ticket