Estate Maintenance
YOUR WORKING DAY IN THE ESTATES MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT WILL NEVER BE DULL. THERE ARE NEW THINGS TO DO AND LEARN EVERY DAY. A VARIETY OF QUALIFICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO ACHIEVE RAIN OR SHINE INCLUDING THE FULL RANGE OF CHAINSAW TICKETS, SPRAYING TICKETS, HEDGECUTTER & STRIMMER TICKETS AND MUCH MORE AS YOU HELP MAINTAIN FIELDS, WOODLANDS AND GARDENS. A WIDE RANGE OF EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS WILL OPEN UP TO YOU WITH THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU GAIN.
Estate Maintenance
YOUR WORKING DAY IN THE ESTATES MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT WILL NEVER BE DULL. THERE ARE NEW THINGS TO DO AND LEARN EVERY DAY. A VARIETY OF QUALIFICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO ACHIEVE RAIN OR SHINE INCLUDING THE FULL RANGE OF CHAINSAW TICKETS, SPRAYING TICKETS, HEDGECUTTER & STRIMMER TICKETS AND MUCH MORE AS YOU HELP MAINTAIN FIELDS, WOODLANDS AND GARDENS. A WIDE RANGE OF EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS WILL OPEN UP TO YOU WITH THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU GAIN.
Our Estate Maintenance Department can help you to...
- Get chainsaw, hedge cutter, strimmer and spraying tickets
- Drive a tractor, use trailers, harrows and toppers
- Get Working at Heights & Emergency First Aid qualifications
- Learn fencing and repairs
- Look after a 500-acre estate with woods, fields and lawns
- Get your licence to work on sites (CSCS Card)
- No prior experience is necessary as full training is given
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Learning basics of the trade and gaining work experience.
Test days and opportunities to take tests may come in Level 1, but by the end of Level 2 & Extension, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire some or all of:
- Chainsaw
- Maintenance
- Cross-cutting
- Felling up to 15″
- Ariel rescue
- Climbing (handsaw)
- Rope & harness (chainsaw)
- Hedgecutter and Strimmer tickets
- Spraying ticket
- Driving Theory
- Health & Safety
- Manual handing
- Working at Heights
- Emergency First Aid
Examples of dept skills you can learn:
- Cut a hedge safely and tidy up afterwards
- Use a chemical sprayer competently
- Undertake a range of chainsaw work
- Mow a section of grass competently with straight lines
- Weed and prepare an area of ground for planting out plants with even spacing
- Strim an area safely taking into account windows and trees
- Drive a tractor with trailer and carry out pre-start checks
- Working on ladders and platforms safely
- Put harrows on a tractor and harrow a field
- Put topper on tractor and top a field
- Roll a field
- Measure out and complete a fencing job
- Rotovate an area for seeding
Increasing work experience and skill level.
Test days and opportunities to take tests may come in Level 1, but by the end of Level 2 & Extension, trainees should have had the opportunity to take tests and acquire some or all of:
- Chainsaw
- Maintenance
- Cross-cutting
- Felling up to 15″
- Ariel rescue
- Climbing (handsaw)
- Rope & harness (chainsaw)
- Hedgecutter and Strimmer tickets
- Spraying ticket
- Driving Theory
- Health & Safety
- Manual handing
- Working at Heights
- Emergency First Aid
Examples of dept skills you can learn:
- Cut a hedge safely and tidy up afterwards
- Use a chemical sprayer competently
- Undertake a range of chainsaw work
- Mow a section of grass competently with straight lines
- Weed and prepare an area of ground for planting out plants with even spacing
- Strim an area safely taking into account windows and trees
- Drive a tractor with trailer and carry out pre-start checks
- Working on ladders and platforms safely
- Put harrows on a tractor and harrow a field
- Put topper on tractor and top a field
- Roll a field
- Measure out and complete a fencing job
- Rotovate an area for seeding
Trainees who prove themselves and for whom it is deemed appropriate there may be opportunities to extend the placement and achieve a deeper level of work experience and skill.
Trainees might get the opportunity to work toward or achieve some part of the following:
- Opportunity to continue work experience through the remaining 2 seasons and gain experience of every season
- Further opportunity to pass some or all of the tests listed above
- Opportunity for practical driving lessons