Responsibility for all aspects of facility management covering all council assets including 40 acres of sports ground, 6 acres of cemetery, 3 allotment areas, village flower beds, conservation area, destination play park and other general amenity areas. Building's including council offices, community centre, village conveniences, sports pavilion, and village hall. Leader of all outside maintenance staff, comprising of three full time staff and one part time member of staff. Over see all aspects of training requirements, risk assessment, health and safety, and other areas of legislation control. Control over budgeting proposals and management of budgeting once agreed by council.Training undertaken in this period:Principles of moving and handling - St Johns 2004Performance Quality Standards - IOG 2005Principles of risk assessment - St Johns 2005Emergency Aid in the work place - St Johns 2001/5/07/10/14/18Working safely - IOSH 2005Pest control- Plumpton College 2006Fire Marshall - St Johns 2006/9/18/21/22(ihasco)Foundation Cert in Health & Safety - CIEH 2006WBC drug litter & intelligence training - 2006/07Management and maintenance of synthetic sports surfaces - IOG 2006Principles of COSHH - CIEH 2006, 2021(ihasco)SAPCA seminars- 2006/10/11PA 1 & 6 Plumpton College 2006/7Risk assessment - St Johns 2008Conflict management resolution - SCA - 2009Developing & leading effective teams - SCA - 2010Top green/Rigby Taylor. Grass cultivar research trip(France) 2009.The Art of supervision - SCA - 2011IOG SALTEX 2003 -2012KOMPAN Play seminar 2008Managing Risk in Play seminar 2009Fire risk & prevention (SCA) 2015PASMA access platform training 2017IOSH managing safely 2017Cemetery compliance training 2017Cemetery memorial testing 2018Lantra (tree inspection training) 2019Mental health awareness 2020Cemetery Sexton training 2021Manual handling 2022(ihasco)PPE training (2022 ihasco)safe guarding children level 2 (2022 ihasco)

Responsible for all aspects of grounds maintenance. 4 full sized football pitches, 2 tennis courts, cricket square, 3 six a side pitches, and other general amenity areas. Control of department budgeting, training needs, risk assessment, and all other aspects of health and safety. One full time member of staff and one part time member of staffTraining during this period:NVQ 2 sports turf

General dogs body, lot's of shoveling dressing, marking out, and generally learning basic fundamental principles of the turf industry. Best to learn from bottom up. These early years have stood the test of time, and taught me one of my basic principles of not giving out work that ive not already undertaken or willingness to do myself.Training during this period:IOG- Elementary techniques in groundsmanshipIOG- Winter pitch maintenanceIOG- Cricket Square maintenance