Experience

The Ashcombe School
• United Kingdom
• Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Site Team Assistant

  • Jun 2022 - Present


Mole Valley District Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Parks & Landscape Manager

  • Oct 2018 - Jun 2022

• Parks & Landscape Manager

  • Oct 2018 - Jun 2022



Mitie

• United Kingdom
• Facilities Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Account Manager - Landscapes

  • Aug 2015 - Oct 2018

  Quality control and liaison for a key contract covering nearly100 sites across the South East of England. Monitoring the quality of grounds maintenance on the sites, estimating new and additional works and acting as the main point of contact for the client and colleagues. Quality control and liaison for a key contract covering nearly100 sites across the South East of England. Monitoring the quality of grounds maintenance on the sites, estimating new and additional works and acting as the main point of contact for the client and colleagues.



Reigate & Banstead Borough Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Parks & Countryside Manager

  • 2003 - 2015

  I was the Function Manager for a team of 7 officers overseeing all aspects of parks and countryside management for the Borough. This included allotments, highway verge maintenance and cemeteries with all grounds maintenance carried out by an in-house labour force of nearly forty staff. I was the first point of contact for the public and Local Councillors for all issues relating to the Borough’s parks and countryside. • Full responsibility for controlling a revenue budget of 1.4 million pounds. Robust monthly account monitoring and forecasting reported up to senior management. • Capital funding bids submitted and implemented as rolling programmes of improvements – annual budget of £150,000. • Part of the project team for the Heritage Lottery funded refurbishment of Reigate Priory Park and ongoing management of the park with Green Flags awarded every year since 2009. • Managed a rolling programme of playground refurbishments, engaging with local groups and schools to ensure new and refurbished schemes met local expectations. • Recruitment and selection of officers and operative staff. • Overall responsibility for Health and Safety of the service. Show less



Pantiles Nurseries Ltd

• Garden Designer

  • 2003 - 2003

  Designing private gardens. Meeting with clients, surveying sites, quoting for the design work, hand drawing of designs and planting plans. Designing private gardens. Meeting with clients, surveying sites, quoting for the design work, hand drawing of designs and planting plans.

• Principal Parks Officer

  • 1995 - 2002

  Head of a small team managing all parks, open spaces and woodlands in Council ownership. Client Officer for two grounds maintenance contracts of total value £300,000, covering parks, open spaces, allotments, housing estates, highway areas and Dorking Cemetery. Managing playgrounds on all parks and housing areas. • Controlled a revenue budget of £700,000.• Tendered grounds maintenance under CCT contracts.• Managed playground refurbishment projects.• Designed and installed permanent planting schemes to a number of parks. Show less

• Senior Assistant Estates Officer

  • 1991 - 1995



Waterers Landscape Ltd

• Contracts Manager

  • 1989 - 1990

  Managing hard and soft schemes for both private gardens and commercial projects. Organizing materials, supervising labour force and sub-contractors and overall organization of work on site. • One year as the full time site agent for a prestigious £900,000 hard and soft roof garden landscape in Thorpe, Surrey. Managing hard and soft schemes for both private gardens and commercial projects. Organizing materials, supervising labour force and sub-contractors and overall organization of work on site. • One year as the full time site agent for a prestigious £900,000 hard and soft roof garden landscape in Thorpe, Surrey.



Tilhill Landscaping

• Assistant/Contracts Manager

  • 1986 - 1989

  Managing predominantly commercial soft landscape schemes. Preparing quotations, supervising direct and sub contract labour, valuations and debt control. Some design work. • Managed landscape installations at the Clore Gallery extension of the Tate Gallery and at Brooklands Business Park, Weybridge. • Promoted to Contracts Manager in July 1988, with additional responsibility as deputy to the Branch Manager. Managing predominantly commercial soft landscape schemes. Preparing quotations, supervising direct and sub contract labour, valuations and debt control. Some design work. • Managed landscape installations at the Clore Gallery extension of the Tate Gallery and at Brooklands Business Park, Weybridge. • Promoted to Contracts Manager in July 1988, with additional responsibility as deputy to the Branch Manager.