Gardener jobs in Chorley

Miller’s Vanguard is the UK’s premier service, maintenance, and equipment supply company within the foodservice industry. We work with many of the UK’s leading retail chains, maintaining and supplying equipment with unrivalled expertise built over 40 years.

We have a great opportunity for a Gardener to join our facilities department. As a Facilities Operative / Gardener, you will be responsible for the Gardening and maintenance of all company grounds at a high standard.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Maintain lawns, flower beds, shrubs, and trees
• Plant seasonal flowers, trees, and other vegetation
• Mow lawns, trim hedges, and edge pathways
• Identify and treat plant diseases and pests
• Operate and maintain gardening tools and equipment
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of outdoor areas
• Work within health and safety guidelines

What we are looking for:

• Previous experience in gardening or landscaping
• Good knowledge of plants, horticulture, and seasonal care
• Ability to use a variety of gardening tools and machinery
• Physically fit and capable of outdoor work in various weather conditions
• Strong attention to detail and pride in workmanship
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Our ideal candidate will:

• Experience working in a residential, commercial or public garden.
• Able to understand landscape designs and bedding schemes.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in garden / grounds maintenance
• Wide knowledge of gardening.

Company Information

Who are we?

Millers Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: –

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Millers Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments: –

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Why join us?

• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 32 holidays days per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families.

Monday - Friday 8.00am - 17.00pm

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,984.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: DM - Gardener