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Join the Cormac Environment Team – Caring for Cornwall’s Parks, Gardens & Public Spaces

We in the Cormac Environment team are dedicated to maintaining beautiful, safe, and welcoming parks, public spaces, and community greenspaces across Cornwall. Our work supports biodiversity, enhances wellbeing, and ensures residents and visitors can enjoy high‑quality green environments all year round.

About Us

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 maintenance, quality parks enhancement projects, play facility  installation, improvement and repair works, as well as an ongoing stewardship of a wide variety of species across diverse landscapes from parks, formal gardens, open spaces, sports pitches, cemeteries, waterways, and roadside landscapes. Sustainability and the Environment at the heart of all we do and wherever practical adapting maintenance to favour habitats and biodiversity, and use of battery equipment, biofuels and ethanol free fossil fuels in modern equipment and machinery.

The Opportunity

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

What You’ll Do

• Lead small teams across a variety of public spaces and parks
• Carry out routine and specialist grounds maintenance tasks
• Operate 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

To find out more about the role please take a look at the role profile

About you

We are looking for you to bring:

• Relevant horticultural or land‑based qualifications (e.g. Level 2/3)
• Experience operating grounds maintenance machinery (e.g. mowers, strimmers, ride‑on equipment)
• ROLO or equivalent H&S training
• PA1/PA6 pesticide qualifications (desirable)
• This role will involve driving on company business. In order to drive a company vehicle, drivers must hold a full valid UK driving licence, Class C1E/LGV is desirable

If you’re working towards these qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you.

If you’re passionate about creating and maintaining high‑quality greenspaces that benefit communities and the environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Our offer to you

Salary:  £27,306.00

Working Hours: 37

Contract Type: Permanent

Base:  Western Group Centre, Radnor Road, Scorrier, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 5EH

Close Date:  Midnight Sunday 24th May 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.