Match Day Grounds Team - Guildford
Surrey Cricket Club, United Kingdom

Want to become part of a winning team? Are you passionate about cricket, love being outdoors, hardworking, and have solid turf skills? Then we may have the right opportunity for you

What you’ll do

To ensure the Club’s pitches and outfield are maintained and presented to the highest standards possible.

• Wicket preparation: Covering, cutting, verticutting, watering, rolling, marking out etc.
• Match day duties: Set up practice facilities/fielding nets, positioning boundary rope, setting out fielding discs, positioning sightscreens, setting up advertising boards, sweeping wicket at interval, repairing foot holes, re-marking wicket.
• Mowing/presentation, verticutting, fertilising, Areation, repairing wickets, re-seeding, watering and covering up,
• Maintenance, repair and setting up of all grounds care machinery.
• Perform pre-start checks and routine maintenance to turfcare machinery.
• Tidying and litter picking
• Strimming and hedge cutting

Requirements

• Ability to work as a team
• Can do attitude
• Willing to learn
• Good communicator
• Attention to detail
• Hard working
• Reliable
• Excellent groundsmanship skills and ideally some experience of preparing a cricket wicket
• Good all round horticultural knowledge.

• Turf science qualification or equivalent desirable but not essential
• Ability to carry out basic maintenance on equipment

Benefits

• Casual work
• Guildford Cricket Club
• 14.74 per hour including holiday
• Hours are flexible, dependent of the planned fixtures. Some weekend and bank holiday working

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