Senior Training Facility Ground Person

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day management, planning and delivery of grounds maintenance across the Elite Performance Centre.
• Provide weekly reports to the Head of Football Administration and Operations.
• Ensure all playing surfaces are prepared to the highest professional standard.
• Lead the grounds team who are there to support at the Elite Performance Centre.
• Communicate effectively to all relevant internal stakeholders.
• Maintain grounds equipment, machinery, and irrigation systems, ensuring they are safe, serviced and fit for purpose.
• Manage pitch renovation programmes, including seeding, fertilising, aeratoon and turf repoairs.
• Ensure cost efficiency and value in all operations.
• Work closely with coaches, operations and events staff to schedule and balance pitch usage.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety standards, risk assessments, and best practice in grounds maintenance.
• Develop and implement plans for continuous improvements of playing surfaces and associated areas.
• Act as a key point of contact with external contractors, suppliers and governing bodies on ground-related matters.

Club Doncaster:

• Adhere to company policies and procedures.
• Active participation in continuing professional development.
• Act at all times with utmost good faith to the club(s) and company.
• Devote full attention and ability to fulfilment of the duties required by the role.
• To work closely with fellow staff, maintain good relationships, and collaborative working practices.
• To work with colleagues throughout Club Doncaster to extend knowledge and skills in order to identify and develop best practice.
• To undertake other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this job.
• To maintain the quality of service provision, regularly evaluating work and seeking to make improvements.
• Present a professional image when dealing with both internal and external contacts and partners, acting in a professional manner at all times.
• To undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this job.

About Club Doncaster:

Club Doncaster is the elite brand of sporting organisations working to support and strive forward our community. Our spoken aim is to be: an ambitious and successful club of which the community is proud of.

We work with a culture that promotes unity, creativity and aspiration to promote success – this is why we are Club Doncaster.

Safeguarding:

Club Doncaster takes its safeguarding responsibility very seriously. This means recruiting the correct people for Club Doncaster.

We acknowledge our clear responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable groups in our care, and have policies and guidelines to ensure this.

The successful candidate will have to complete an Enhanced DBS check before starting employment with the club.

Equal opportunities:

Club Doncaster is an equal opportunity employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Our Recruitment and Selection Policy, Code of Conduct, Diversity & Equality Policy, Equal Opportunities Policy and Right to work in UK Policy are available to all applicants on request.