📍 Location: The Brick Community Stadium, Wigan

📑 Contract: Permanent

👤 Reports to: Head Grounds Person

⏳ Hours: 37.5 hours

📅 Closing Date: 27^th March 2026, 11:59pm

Job Overview

To prepare and maintain sports and amenity surfaces, providing a high-quality environment for all training and playing activities.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain all works in relation to playing surfaces, and ensure that the preparatory and cultivation work to maintain safe, quality playing surfaces is completed.
• Work as part of the grounds care operation, when required to work in any of the group’s stadium and training ground facilities.
• Assist the deputy head grounds person in delivering the pest control, weed control, seeding, fungicide and fertilisation/nutrition program for the playing surfaces.
• Ensure that the initial marking out and setting up of playing surfaces is to a high standard to ensure the best possible results are achieved.
• Ensure safe use of the grounds care equipment at all times.
• Ensure that all chemicals and products within the ground care department are used correctly and safely, along with ensuring the safe storage and security of the products.
• Inform your line manager or health and safety office/take corrective action on mechanical defects, damage, loss or breakdown of equipment.
• To be responsible for the security of the equipment.
• At all times, adhere to high standards in relation to Health and Safety, upholding the Company policy in this respect.
• Undertake general grounds maintenance tasks in relation to the playing surface and surrounding areas.
• Ensure the work area is kept clean, tidy and secure at all times.
• Opening and closing duties such as key holding and setting/un-setting of intruder alarms. 
• Deal with opposing teams/match officials/customers/clients/members of the public.
• Liaise with opposing teams and match officials to ensure the best and safest delivery of a match with regard to the playing surface.
• Upholding high standards of customer care and attention at all times when promoting the image of the Company.
• Regular mowing using a variety of mowing equipment.
• Aeration, brushing, seeding- Use of tractor units and utility vehicles with a wide range of attachments utilised for turf care maintenance.
• Set out and over-mark pitches and pre-determined areas ready for play.
• Reinstatement of pitches.
• Divot repair work following play.
• Set-up and use both travelling and automated irrigation systems.
• Ensure the set-up goals, flags for scheduled matches at all venues and at all levels as directed by the head or deputy head grounds person.
• Regular brushing/grooming of 3G artificial surfaces using specialised equipment.

Qualifications

Essential

• Level 2 National/Scottish Vocational Qualifications in both Horticulture and Sports Turf Maintenance, or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge gained through experience.
• Full Driving Licence [requirement to drive to and from different sites]

Desirable

• Other recognised qualifications in one or more of the following: strimming, hedge cutting, ride-on mowing and tractor driving would be an advantage, as would a chainsaw certificate.

Experience

Essential

• Practical grounds work experience

Desirable

• Practical grounds work experience in a sports environment

Knowledge, skills and qualities
Essential

• Awareness of relevant Health and Safety legislation.
• Willing and capable of carrying out medium to heavy manual work tasks in all weather conditions. This may include walking behind mowing machines for long periods.
• Strong communication skills
• Motivated by a passion for quality and great service delivery.
• Ability to successfully work in a team.
• Enthusiastic.
• Willing to learn and continuously develop.
• Assertive, calm, with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Flexible to meet the requirements of the management and coaching staff.
  
  

Health and Safety

• Fully endorse, demonstrate and carry out the company’s health and safety policy.
• Comply with all company policies and statutory regulations relating to health and safety, safe working practices, hygiene, cleanliness, fire and COSHH. This will include your awareness of any specific hazards in your workplace, and assist if required with the amending of risk assessments periodically.
• Have a full knowledge of procedures for evacuation with regard to fire. 
• Identify and report maintenance requirements or hazards within the workplace and encourage the workforce to do the same to avoid injury.

Wigan Sports Group is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment, and its employment policies for recruitment are designed to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Wigan Sports Group is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults at risk during events and activities. The Club recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of these vulnerable groups by a commitment to procedures to protect them. The Club expects all staff and volunteers to respect them.

How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit the application form to WRLCandWAFCjobs@wiganathletic.com