Grounds Maintenance Supervisor

Grounds Maintenance Supervisor | Northern suburbs

Lead a Team. Deliver Quality. Take Pride in Your Work.

Recruitment Select is seeking an experienced and motivated Grounds Maintenance Supervisor to lead a grounds maintenance team delivering services across Melbourne's Northern Suburbs.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for supervising a small crew and ensuring sites are maintained to an exceptional standard. The successful candidate will be actively involved in day-to-day maintenance activities while managing staff, schedules, quality outcomes, and contractual requirements.

If you have strong leadership skills, enjoy working outdoors and take pride in delivering high-quality grounds maintenance services, we'd like to hear from you.

About the Role

Reporting to the Regional Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating and supervising grounds maintenance activities across a portfolio of predominantly government sites.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and supervising a grounds maintenance team
• Planning and executing scheduled maintenance works
• Ensuring contractual obligations and service standards are consistently achieved
• Conducting quality inspections and maintaining presentation standards across all sites
• Managing daily workloads, resources and equipment
• Liaising with clients and key stakeholders
• Training, mentoring and supporting team members
• Maintaining accurate records of completed works
• Promoting and enforcing safe work practices at all times
• Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and service delivery

Typical Duties include:

• Lawn mowing and turf maintenance
• Whipper snipping and edging
• Pruning shrubs, hedges and vegetation
• Weed control and spraying
• General grounds and garden maintenance
• Site clean-up and presentation work
• Pre-start and periodic equipment inspection and basic maintenance
• Assessing and making requests for variation work
• Ensuring all sites are left clean, tidy and professionally presented
• Recording of site visits using dedicated job allocation and scheduling software

About you:

To be successful in this role, you will have:

Essential

• Previous experience in grounds maintenance, landscaping, horticulture or vegetation management
• Proven experience leading or supervising a team
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Ability to work autonomously and prioritise workloads
• Current Driver's Licence
• White Card
• Strong commitment to workplace safety
• Excellent attention to detail and pride in maintaining high presentation standards
• Ability to manage people, productivity and quality outcomes

Desirable

• Chemical Users Certificate
• Working at Heights certification
• Chainsaw accreditation
• MR Licence
• Experience managing scheduled maintenance contracts
• Horticultural qualifications

Personal Attributes

We're looking for someone who:

• Leads by example

• Takes ownership and accountability for results

• Has strong communication and people management skills

• Maintains high standards of workmanship

• Is organised, reliable and self-motivated

• Can effectively solve problems and make decisions in the field

• Has a strong customer service focus

• Is committed to building a positive and safe team culture

What's on Offer?

• Full-time permanent position with excellent pay and conditions
• Company vehicle, tools and equipment provided
• Diverse work across Melbourne's northern suburbs
• Stable long-term contract work
• Opportunity to grow your leadership career, with a great leadership team
• Opportunity for further career growth across the wider contractual network with an established and expanding business

If you're an experienced grounds maintenance professional looking to step into a leadership role and take ownership of a high-profile maintenance portfolio, we'd like to hear from you.

Apply now by submitting your resume and cover letter through SEEK.