
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