Jobs

Gardener / Grounds Person

Organisation: Blair Castle

Location: Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Pitlochry PH18 5TL

Job overview:

Joining the garden team you will be taking care of the grounds maintenance for the Caravan park and Blair Castle Gardens

This is a renowned and historic place where you will be working in a public environment.
Professional standards are required to ensure the grounds are kept to a high quality.

Main responsibilities and duties:

The chief share of the role is mowing and strimming.
You will be operating commercial size ride on and pedestrian mowers, and twin handle strimmer’s.

Further assistance to the garden team will involve maintaining beds and borders in the surrounding gardens and other occasional landscaping tasks.

Facilitating excellent standards of garden maintenance and presentation at all times
Adhering to safe and careful use of garden machinery as necessary including mowers, strimmer’s, hedge cutters, tractor and trailers, and other plant machinery.

Experience required:

Essential:

Operating powers tools including but not limited to mowers and strimmer’s in a professional environment

Minimum one year’s trade experience

Clean UK driving licence

Desirable:

Knowledge of machine maintenance, both 2 and 4 stroke machinery
First aid training

Spraying tickets – ideally PA1 & PA6

Hedge Cutting experience

Chainsaw experience

Application Deadline: Sunday 30/03/2025