Grounds Person / Football Pitch

Company Description

Coventry Building Society Arena is home to unforgettable experiences for conferences, exhibitions, meetings, sport, music and live entertainment. We are an internationally renowned venue which attracts 1.2 million visitors a year and hosts more than 600 events a year.

Coventry Building Society Arena is home to Coventry City Football Club and has hosted some of the world’s biggest names in music, including Coldplay, Rolling Stones, Harry Styles and the Arctic Monkeys.

Our team is committed to providing the best experience and service for all of our visitors.

‘The Best Times Are Here, The Best People Are Here’ at Coventry Building Society Arena.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

OVERVIEW

• Deliver a best-in-class grounds maintenance service befitting of a high profile professional sports venue.
• Be responsible for ensuring health & safety requirements are met for all grounds tasks as well as considering the health & safety of end users of the facility.
• Work closely with the coaching team in order to provide the safest and most suitable environment for the end users of grounds facilities.
• Ensure necessary action is taken where inclement weather or other factors are predicted to ensure that all games and training can go ahead.
• Ensure excellent housekeeping across all work areas ensuring they are kept safe, clean, tidy and secure at all times.
• Uphold extremely high standards of customer care and service when dealing with on site visitors and general members of the public.
• Work independently and organise work to deliver objectives without constant close supervision.
• Perform daily monitoring checks to identify playing surface issues e.g. pest, weed, disease and irrigation management, and identify diagnostics and treatment.
• Test and monitor playing surface PQS and cross reference to industry benchmarks to optimise safety, aesthetics and playing surface performance characteristics.
• Work closely with the Grounds team to continuously identify opportunities for improvements in efficiency, performance and results.
• Remain up to date with industry developments, legislation and best practice through attendance at conferences, seminars and events and by building and maintaining a professional network.
• Identify opportunities to reduce the club’s carbon footprint, improve its sustainability credentials and positively impact on the wider environment.
• Undertake any other duties as designated by your line manager to ensure the smooth running of all operational aspects of the business.

Qualifications

Relevant Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Sports Turf or working towards its requirements (or equivalent) - desirable.
• Pesticide licenses PA 1,2 and 6 would be an advantage - desirable.
• Manual handling training would be advantage, but training will be provided - desirable.

Relevant Experience

Good level of physical fitness to undertake labour intensive tasks and manual handling operations.

• Essential working on sports pitches.
• Stadium experience massive advantage.

Additional Information

Aptitude, skills and abilities

• Excellent time management.
• A willingness to self-evaluate and work towards continuous professional development.
• Ability to lead and motivate people.

Personal attributes

• True team player.
• Highly self-motivated.
• A flexible approach to working hours, the role will require some weekend and evening working.

Benefits

• Onsite free car parking.
• Subsidised canteen.
• Company pension scheme.
• Death in service.