Grounds Maintenance Supervisor | Northern suburbs

Lead a Team. Deliver Quality. Take Pride in Your Work.

Recruitment Select is seeking an experienced and motivated Grounds Maintenance Supervisor to lead a grounds maintenance team delivering services across Melbourne's Northern Suburbs.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for supervising a small crew and ensuring sites are maintained to an exceptional standard. The successful candidate will be actively involved in day-to-day maintenance activities while managing staff, schedules, quality outcomes, and contractual requirements.

If you have strong leadership skills, enjoy working outdoors and take pride in delivering high-quality grounds maintenance services, we'd like to hear from you.

About the Role

Reporting to the Regional Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating and supervising grounds maintenance activities across a portfolio of predominantly government sites.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and supervising a grounds maintenance team
- Planning and executing scheduled maintenance works
- Ensuring contractual obligations and service standards are consistently achieved
- Conducting quality inspections and maintaining presentation standards across all sites
- Managing daily workloads, resources and equipment
- Liaising with clients and key stakeholders
- Training, mentoring and supporting team members
- Maintaining accurate records of completed works
- Promoting and enforcing safe work practices at all times
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and service delivery

Typical Duties include:

- Lawn mowing and turf maintenance
- Whipper snipping and edging
- Pruning shrubs, hedges and vegetation
- Weed control and spraying
- General grounds and garden maintenance
- Site clean-up and presentation work
- Pre-start and periodic equipment inspection and basic maintenance
- Assessing and making requests for variation work




- Ensuring all sites are left clean, tidy and professionally presented
- Recording of site visits using dedicated job allocation and scheduling software

About you: To be successful in this role, you will have:

Essential

- Previous experience in grounds maintenance, landscaping, horticulture or vegetation management
- Proven experience leading or supervising a team
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Ability to work autonomously and prioritise workloads
- Current Driver's Licence
- White Card
- Strong commitment to workplace safety
- Excellent attention to detail and pride in maintaining high presentation standards
- Ability to manage people, productivity and quality outcomes

Desirable
- Chemical Users Certificate
- Working at Heights certification
- Chainsaw accreditation
- MR Licence
- Experience managing scheduled maintenance contracts
- Horticultural qualifications

Personal Attributes We're looking for someone who:

- Leads by example
- Takes ownership and accountability for results
- Has solid communication and people management skills
- Maintains high standards of workmanship
- Is organised, reliable and self-motivated
- Can effectively solve problems and make decisions in the field
- Has a strong customer service focus
- Is committed to building a positive and safe team culture

What's on Offer?

- Full-time permanent position with excellent pay and conditions
- Company vehicle, tools and equipment provided
- Diverse work across Melbourne's northern suburbs
- Stable long-term contract work
- Opportunity to grow your leadership career, with a great leadership team
- Opportunity for further career growth across the wider contractual network with an established and expanding business

If you're an experienced grounds maintenance professional looking to step into a leadership role and take ownership of a high-profile maintenance portfolio, we'd like to hear from you. Apply now by submitting your resume and cover letter through SEEK.

📌 Grounds Maintenance Supervisor (Craigieburn)
🏢 Recruitment Select
📍 Craigieburn