Exterior Team Leader (Glasgow)

Plant your roots in a career in horticulture

Do you have what it takes to lead a team, delivering excellent service?

As an Exterior Team Leader at GP Plantscape you will travel to our customers sites across Central Scotland, supervising a team and delivering exterior landscaping services.

You will be responsible for performing all aspects of the landscape maintenance role and for directing work on site, ensuring that all team members are trained and health and safety procedures are followed.

It will be your job to ensure regular maintenance and repairs of equipment and vehicles are carried out, complete jobs using the company i-Pad and to communicate with customers.

The landscape maintenance regime includes:

  • Weeding
  • Pruning
  • Planting shrubs, bedding etc
  • Cutting Hedges
  • Grass cutting
  • Strimming
  • Litter picking
  • Maintaining window boxes and hanging baskets

In the winter months, you will deliver gritting and snow clearing services on our customers sites. This will involve shift working and being on stand-by.

You will also assist with the delivery, installation and uplift of Christmas trees and helping other departments where required.

In this customer facing role you are required to be efficient, friendly, polite and helpful. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated, confident and enthusiastic, with first class communication skills and proven leadership skills.

For this role we require:

  • A full clean driving licence
  • Previous experience of exterior landscape maintenance
  • PA1 and PA6 certification (preferable).

Role Details

The exterior team leader position is full-time and permanent. You will work on average 40.87 hours per week over 5 days. The job is based in Glasgow.

GP Plantscape offer a Company pension.

A discretionary profit share scheme and discounted savings scheme is operated for eligible employees.

A sales leads commission scheme is also in operation.

You can download the full job specification here.

To apply, please send your C.V. and request an application form from alyson.mccoll@gpplantscape.com.

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Kevin Stewart, Facilities Manager , Registers of Scotland
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Caroline Hammond, Office Manager , LSPIM
“If a contractor turns up and they are not booked in it makes my life very stressful and difficult, but with GP we know when the team is arriving, we know what day they are arriving, what time they are arriving and its normally always the same people, but if it has to change, we know in advance.”
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Gordon Anthony, General Manager , Park Hotel
“Incorporating biophilia in a recent hybrid pilot workspace for a client in Glasgow was such an important part of the jigsaw. The project included large trees, standing planters in various designs, shelf planters and two bespoke moss walls. The exterior courtyard also underwent a transformation including power washing the paving, sanding and painting of the exterior furniture, new gravel, a new Astro turf putting green and various planters with lovely biophilia displays. The feedback has been fantastic and people have been raving about it from a senior level. A big thanks to all the team at GP who were a great support and pulled out all the stops to ensure completion on time.”
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