Company Name:
Swansea City
Location:
Swansea
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
Advertising End Date:
20 Jul 2025

About The Role

 Grounds & Amenities Supervisor

Department    Grounds Maintenance

Location          Swansea: Fairwood Training Ground, Stadium or Academy Training Ground

Contract        Contract 40 hours per week / flexible working pattern including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Deliver all elements of qualifications completed to the necessary standards.
  • Lead briefings and allocate all jobs fairly and evenly, if staff are trained and competent.
  • Prepare, maintain, and repair all playing surfaces; natural and synthetic.
  • Part of the future planning and initiative working group, looking into renos, landscaping, biodiversity, sustainability and pitch programming.
  • Deputise in the absence of the Head of Grounds. For all staffing, planning, machinery, procurement of your specific site and work in conjunction with site leads to maintain delivery across the board. (Grounds management team)
  • Help plan, implement, and monitor weekly, monthly, and annual maintenance programmes including completion of renovations.
  • Carry out daily pitch maintenance duties including mowing, aerating, line marking, divoting, spraying and fertilising.
  • Ensure the standard of surface, amenities and all working areas are presented and to the highest level.
  • Contribute to the estimated progress for the sources required for work projects.
  • Maintaining machinery and equipment ensuring it is cleaned and serviced to the highest standard, reacting to any issues or faults.
  • Irrigation maintenance and repairs to be carried out as and when.
  • Support the efficient use of resources.
  • To work with and support all members of the team to enable an effective and efficient service.
  • Encourage and be inclusive to ideas given by any member of the team.
  • Promote and by example have safe working practices.
  • Liaise with coaching and management staff daily, pre and during training sessions including applying irrigation.
  • Speak with coaches pre-set up of all fixtures and follow site pitch protection and EFL pitch protection policies in place.
  • Completion of all paperwork daily.
  • Winter protection as and when including gritting and frost sheets.

About The Candidate

Person Specification

Essential

  • Level 3 Diploma Work-based Sportsturf management or working towards
  • PA1 spraying license
  • Level 3 Diploma in Sports Turf Management or working towards
  • Sound understanding of lighting rigs and undersoil heating
  • Have a developed awareness of H&S regulations in their area of responsibility
  • Previous experience working with hybrid and fibre sand pitches
  • Have a sound understanding of legislation in relation to chemicals and dangerous substances
  • Full driving license
  • 5 years industry experience

Desirable       

  • PA2, PA6 spraying licenses

About The Club

Club Policy’s  

  • Follow all Club Policies, such as Equality & Diversity, Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Anti-Corruption & Bribery and GDPR.
  • Make suggestions to improve the working environment and contribute to positive employee relations within your area of work and Swansea City Football Club as a whole.
  • To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and other employees and members of the public who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work.
  • To comply with all aspects of the Swansea City Football Club Health and Safety Policy and Arrangements, to enable the Company to perform its civil and statutory obligations in relation to Health & Safety
  • Ensure effective communication within your work team and across Swansea City whilst actively offering support and guidance as necessary.

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