Grounds Person

Partington\’s is family-owned and operates Holiday Parks across Lancashire, the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales plus Walterz Entertainment Centre near Blackpool. Established over 80 years ago, and offering Holiday Home ownership and short break holidays in an extensive range of accommodation. Partington\’s also offer caravan touring holidays and seasonal touring pitches at several Parks.

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We are recruiting for a skilled Grounds Person to support the Park Manager and Foreman in providing an outstanding service; creating a well maintained and safe environment for our customers, ensuring the Park grounds, facilities, buildings and equipment are well maintained on a day-to-day basis. The successful candidates will ideally have previous experience of working on a holiday park and understand the impact of beautiful surroundings and customer service on our guests; our vision is \’to make every day feel like a holiday\’.

Role: Grounds Person

Location: Tarn House Holiday Park, BD23 3FF

Hours: 40 hours per week.

Salary: £13.75 per hour

Shift pattern: Likely Fridays and Saturday off

Role overview

• Assist with the movement of caravans, siting, levelling and plumbing into main services, testing and final inspection of same before the caravan is handed over to the purchaser.
• Ensure the repair and general upkeep of the roads
• Undertake the pruning trees, strimming when necessary and trimming grassed areas
• Undertake as required the delivery of gas cylinders to caravans on the Park
• Develop, prepare, repair and landscape including car parks, patios, pathways, concrete bases and groundworks.
• Maintain buildings, machinery, equipment and vehicles, drains, including daily and routine maintenance and minor repairs

Benefits include:

· Birthday Treat – Additional day annual leave

· Wellness programmes

· Team Member awards

· Loyalty leave

· Bonus schemes

· 1 in 6 weekends off (if applicable) / where possible

· Ongoing training and development

· Refer a friend and Great Ideas schemes

· Team events

· Use of leisure facilities across the Parks

· Discounted food

· Employee discount off holidays with the Partington Group

· Employee discount at Walterz Entertainment Hub

· Employee discount – Local Attractions Discount Scheme

· Pension scheme

· Uniform provided

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a ground\’s person, particularly in the moving siting and levelling of caravans though training will be provided.
• Able to produce right to work documentation (e.g. passport or birth certificate & NI document)
• Able to produce valid (preferably clean) manual driving licence
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to liaise with team members and guests effectively.
• PA1/PA6a would be advantageous (or potentially willing to work towards)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £13.75 per hour

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Application question(s):

• Do you have valid PA1 / Pa6a certification?
• Do you know anyone who currently works for Partington\’s?
• Describe your experience in plumbing, siting, joinery, building, site labouring?

Licence/Certification:

• manual Driving License (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: GroundsNH 02.25