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Join the Cormac Environment Team – Caring for Cornwall’s Parks, Gardens & Public Spaces
We in the Cormac Environment team are proud to maintain beautiful, safe, and welcoming parks, public spaces, and community greenspaces across Cornwall. Our work supports biodiversity, enhances well being, and ensures residents and visitors can enjoy high quality green environments all year round.

The Opportunity
We are looking for a motivated, skilled and experienced Greenspace Maintenance Chargehand to support the Environment Working Foreperson. This hands on role involves leading teams and carrying out high quality horticultural and grounds maintenance tasks and ensuring safe and efficient operations across our sites.

Cormac Environment Service provides a comprehensive, end-to-end Park and Open Spaces management service across Cornwall. Our professional and operational teams deliver expert grounds and tree maintenance services, quality parks enhancement projects, play facility installation, improvement and repair works, as well as an ongoing stewardship of a wide variety of diverse landscapes from parks, formal gardens, open spaces, sports pitches, cemeteries, waterways, and roadside landscapes. Sustainability and the Natural Environment is at the heart of all we do, adapting maintenance to favour habitats and biodiversity.

 What You will Do

• Lead small teams across a variety of public spaces and parks
• Carry out routine and specialist grounds maintenance tasks
• Operate a wide range of grounds maintenance machinery and tools
• Ensure safe working practices and site standards
• Support the development and mentoring of team members
• Assist with inspections, planning, and delivery of maintenance schedules
• Contribute to biodiversity and habitat‑enhancement projects

✅ What We Offer

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities
• Career progression within a growing environmental services team
• Access to mental health and wellbeing support
• Uniform, PPE, and modern equipment provided

Our Values

• Environmental Stewardship – protecting and enhancing Cornwall’s green assets
• Safety First – ensuring the wellbeing of our people and communities
• Quality – delivering excellent standards in all maintenance activities
• Teamwork – supporting an inclusive and collaborative working culture
• Continuous Improvement – investing in innovation, training, and staff development

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant horticultural or land‑based qualifications (e.g., Level 2/3)
• Experience operating grounds maintenance machinery (e.g., tractors, mowers, strimmers, ride‑on equipment)
• ROLO or equivalent H&S training
• PA1/PA6 pesticide qualifications (desirable)

• LGV or  C1E category licence

   

For more information please click on the Role Profile

Our offer to you

Salary:  £30,566.00

Working Hours: 37

Contract Type: Permanent

Base:   Wheal Eliza, St Austell, Cornwall

Closing Date:  Midnight Monday 29^th June 2026

Click here to read more about us and what benefits we offer.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of all our service users, clients and customers. This role is subject to a basic DBS check.  If the role is working with vulnerable individuals and/or children and young people, you will be asked to complete a relevant DBS check to be successfully appointed to the role.

To apply

It’s really easy to apply for our roles – simply follow the link to create a candidate profile, answer the screening questions and upload a CV.

Contact us

If you’d like to have a discussion about the role, please feel free to contact our in-house resourcing team for an informal chat about the role.

Thank you for your interest in supporting our important work at the Corserv Group.