Mike Chappell Email & Phone Number

Verdant Careers has been created to bring recruiting staff in the Grounds Maintenance, Sportsturf, Golf Greenkeeping, Landscaping, Horticulture, and Arboriculture industries together.There is so much synergy between roles, with skilled candidates able to transfer skills across the sectors, and currently there are lots of really Niche job boards for each part of the industry however not one that brings them together as a central hub, this is where Verdant Careers comes in.Check out the website www.verdantcareers.com

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Chappell Enterprises UK is a specialist recruiter for the Sportsturf, Grounds Maintenance, Landscaping, Horticulture, and Arboriculture. Not only do we recruit for the business and clubs carrying out the work in the industries, we also recruit for the industry suppliers such as Fertiliser Manufacturers, Machinery Sales, Machinery Servicing and Breakdown, Renovation and Construction Contractors and everything in-between.We offer a personal and bespoke service to all via our comprehensive recruitment process when searching for candidates including Temporary, Contract and Permanent placements.We believe in giving an honest and reliable service, always giving an answer even if its an answer the client doesn't want to hear!

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

General Operations of the whole business. Setting up the FPL Milton Keynes office after moving offsite from our main client. Increasing Client base of 1 to 20plus, with a range of SME and Bluechip clients.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Managing agency staff for a very well known Global Brand at 2 of their warehouses.Recruiting Warehouse Staff and Drivers

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Recruitment ConsultantStarted as a trainee and went on to build a blue collar trades and labour desk.Learnt the old fashion KPI way of call, call, call. worked with some great people who gave me the key skills and understanding that I have today.

Worked as a senior greenkeeper carrying out all tasks of golf course maintenance.

Managed the sports grounds at the school.4 cricket squares (including the Grove 1st Square which hosted Junior County, MCC invitational and OW league matches). 10 full size football & rugby pitches, 8 junior football and rugby pitches, 2 400m athletic tracks, 9 holes golf course, 2 concrete base tennis/netball courts and 1 all weather astro turf. carried out all machine maintenance, servicing and breakdowns.hands on role including mowing, fertilising, marking out, aeration, scarification, hedge cutting and more.managed budgets, suppliers, recruitment and staffing levels.

Worked as part of the Grounds Maintenance team looking after 4 football/Rugby pitches, 1 400m athletics track and 1cricket square. Maintained all flower beds, hedging, grassed and hard surface areas around the school.we also managed 4 feeder primary schools and 2 other secondary schools grounds maintenance as subcontractors for their grounds maintenance. I carried out all CAD drawings and estimating for tenders for new school maintenance contracts.carried out machinery maintenance, PA2 and PA6 spraying.we also subcontracted to MK Dons FC supporting their grounds team on match days and heavy maintenance at the training ground.

I was quickly promoted to team leader / chargehand to manage Campbell Park in Milton Keynes. Responsible for hedge cutting, tree pruning, grass cutting, weed control, litter picking, winter shrub maintenance, winter tree maintenance. Was also regularly covering work on other contracts around the area.During the winter was solely Responsible for the central Milton Keynes gritting contracts where I would ensure all hazardous and public walk ways were treated. this was early morning starts and then arrive at the depot to carry out my grounds maintenance deliveries.used all types of machinery, hand tools and kept their maintenance plans up to date

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Golf And Sportsturf Management, Turf And Turfgrass Management, Foundation Degree And Hnd

Activities and Societies: hockey team pool team Sports Secretary Golf and Sportsturf Management

High School