Reading FC are looking to recruit a Grounds Person to work at the Select Car Leasing Stadium and Bearwood Park Training Ground.
| Job title: |
Grounds Person |
| Employer: |
Reading Football Club |
| Location: |
Multi-Site, Bearwood Training Park and the Select Car Leasing Stadium |
| Contract: |
Permanent |
| Salary & Benefits |
From £21,500.00 – £24,000 per annum depending on expereince
- Paid day off to celebrate your birthday
- Employee Assistance Programme with free access to help, advice, and support
- Complementary home match ticket
- 25% off full priced Reading FC merchandise
- Auto-enrolment into the Club’s pension scheme (depending on eligibility)
- Group Life Assurance benefit (death in service cover)
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| Hours of work: |
37 ½ hrs per week on a flexible basis to include some weekends required on a rota basis |
| Department: |
Stadium and Facilities |
| Reporting to: |
The Head Grounds Persons |
| Job purpose |
- To prepare and maintain all sports turf pitches used by Reading FC.
- To produce playing surfaces for professional footballers at the highest possible standard.
- To maintain landscaped areas
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| Accountabilities |
- To prepare and maintain all sports turf pitches, natural and artificial, used by Reading Football Club at Bearwood Park Training Ground or Stadium.
- To use a wide range of machinery knowledge and operation skills to deal with all breakdowns, setting up all cylinder/rotary mowers and perform regular routine pre- start checks.
- To mark out the pitches
- To carry out Tractor operations using different implements
- To maintain main lawns/landscaped areas at the Stadium and Bearwood Park using pedestrian mowers, strimmer’s, hedge trimmers, hand tools, weeding beds, blowing all leaves and planting of trees/shrubs
- To inform the supervisor or take corrective action on mechanical defects or breakdown of equipment.
- To help in preparation works for end of season renovations including turf cutting, irrigation works, fertilising, seeding and sand dressing
- To maintain goals and nets, and maintain ball-stop netting
- To be responsible for the upkeep of the 3G surface using a tractor and brush implements
- To use self-irrigators on the Academy pitches
- To ensure all equipment is stored and kept clean and returned appropriately To help with all deliveries of fertiliser/seed/equipment
- To adhere to a strict code of confidentiality in respect of any information relating to Reading Football Club and its operation
- There is an expectation that you will undertake adhoc work on an exceptional basis or provide relevant cover for other team tasks
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How to apply
If you meet the person specification for the role, which can be read in full here, and wish to apply, please complete the application form and return it to recruitment@readingfc.co.uk to reach us by the closing date of 12pm on Friday 29th April 2022.
