Summary
Start a rewarding career in greenkeeping! Join our experienced team at Stowmarket Golf Club as a Greenkeeper Apprentice, gaining hands-on training and a Level 2 qualification while helping maintain our course to a high standard.
What you will do at work
Working alongside our experienced greenkeeping team, the apprentice will receive hands-on training while completing a Level 2 Golf Greenkeeper Apprenticeship, gaining the skills and knowledge required to become a qualified greenkeeper. This role sits within the greenkeeping team, reporting to the Course Manager, and covers the maintenance of the golf course and grounds.
Main duties (following a successful training programme) include:
- Maintaining the golf course to the high standards expected
- Mowing greens, tees and other playing areas
- Raking and maintaining bunkers, including topping up sand and weed control
- Divoting tees and fairways
- Assisting with irrigation issues and general irrigation management
- Moving tee markers and setting up the course for daily play
- Strimming and general vegetation management
- Gardening, planting and landscape improvements
- Maintaining the clubhouse surrounds and car park
- Assisting with drainage projects and construction work
- Supporting machinery maintenance and workshop duties where appropriate
- Working safely, efficiently and collaboratively as part of the greenkeeping team
- Working safely, efficiently and collaboratively as part of the greenkeeping team
Training
- Golf Greenkeeper Standard
- English and maths (if required) Level 2
Requirements and skills
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Reliable
- Willingness to learn
Qualifications
- GCSE English or Equivalent (9-4 or A-C) – desired
- GCSE Maths or Equivalent (9-4 or A-C) – desired
About this employer
Stowmarket Golf Club is a well-established golf club set in the Suffolk countryside near Stowmarket, employing 25+ club staff, including a five-strong greenkeeping team led by our Course Manager, maintaining the course and grounds to a high standard for members and visitors.
After this apprenticeship
The club is looking to employ long-term, with the aim of the apprentice progressing to a full-time, qualified greenkeeper role and developing further within the greenkeeping team.
Things to consider
In addition to completing your application here, please send an application letter, explaining why would like to be considered, to [email protected], FAO Matthew Gill.