Closing Date of Applications – 07/08/2024

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Our Story

Manchester City is an English Premier League club whose roots began in East Manchester. From its first incarnation as St Mark’s West Gorton in 1880, the club became Manchester City FC in 1894. Behind each title lies emotion, moments and memories that resonate with millions of supporters around the world. Manchester City fans are known for their commitment and togetherness, as a Club that fights to the end.

Our Winning Team

MCFC is built on a vision for sustainability, with an academy structure designed to support long-term first team success, to engagement with the communities in which we reside. Together with our passionate fans and valued network of partners, we are developing Manchester City’s future history.

You’ll deliver Day-to-day leadership of the grounds team to help achieve shared targets and ensure world class playing surfaces are maintained throughout the calendar year. You’ll have plenty of support from your line manager and the Head of Grounds who have a wealth of experience to support your growth and development.

The successful candidate will follow a range of operational processes and procedures to deliver specific outputs, adapting their approach depending on circumstance and their professional and/or technical experience to ensure the highest standards are maintained.

This is Your City  

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

1. Focus

Provide operational delivery and guidance of a service; co-ordinating day-to-day activities and outputs across the service working alongside supervision.

Lead and deliver the day to day the operation within their specific area/project; supporting delivery to time, cost, and quality standards.

2. Planning & organising

Contribute to the delivery of operational services, either as an individual contributor or through a small specialist service delivery team.

Planning is primarily focused across daily / weekly horizons

3.  Comms & influence

Inform and advise on project outputs through the appliance of sound technical knowledge, and the building of rational arguments, to support decision making.

4.  Problem Solving

Plan, implement and contribute to regular reviews of operational activities, including processes, practices, and procedures within area of delivery specialism. Latitude to identify and operationalise opportunities for improvement.

5. Challenge

Define and select the appropriate delivery mechanisms within their operational area, using expertise and agility to reference a wide range of solutions and reporting of emerging issues.

6. Decision making

Outputs will be focused primarily on the delivery of operational team outputs. Whilst work will be under managerial supervision.

7.  Impact

Focus of role will be on the delivery of operational outputs from an area of a specialism. Work will impact on specific area of responsibility.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Experience motivating and leading a team daily.
• Clear and engaging communication skills.
• The ability to work in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating the work of others and developing staff towards continuous improvement.
• Budget awareness and ordering.
• Strong knowledge and implementation of Health And Safety.
• A good level of PC literacy.
• A thorough understanding of grounds maintenance systems and their application including maintenance of reinforced pitches, preferably
• Desso, SIS, Hero and Fibresand, full understanding of automatic irrigation systems and SGL lighting rig deployment and service.
• Extensive experience working with playing surfaces.
• Supervisory experience as a supervisory grounds person or similar desirable.
• NVQ L3 Turf Management
• Pesticides Application PA1,2 and 6

Desirable

• Experience with Turf lighting equipment
• Experience working for a professional Football Club

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview. 

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.