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Grounds Technician
A Grounds Technician is responsible for maintaining and improving outdoor spaces, including parks, sports fields, and other landscaped areas. Here are some of their key duties:
Landscaping: Planting, cultivating, and maintaining trees, shrubs, flowers, and lawns 1.
Irrigation Systems: Installing, maintaining, and repairing automatic and manual watering systems 1.
Grounds Maintenance: Mowing, trimming, edging, and fertilizing lawns; removing debris and leaves 1.
Safety Inspections: Identifying and mitigating safety hazards to ensure a safe environment 1.
Equipment Operation: Using and maintaining groundskeeping equipment such as mowers, blowers, trimmers, and snowplows 2.
Event Preparation: Setting up and taking down facilities for events, including marking athletic fields 1
Swindon (/ˈswɪndən/ (listen)) is the largest town in Wiltshire, South West England, lying between Bristol, 35 miles (56 kilometres) to the west, and Reading, the same distance to the east. The town is 71 miles (114 km) west of London. The population of the Swindon built-up area was 185,600 in 2011.[1]
The Town Development Act 1952 led to a major increase in its population.[2]
Swindon railway station is on the line from London Paddington to Bristol. Swindon Borough Council is a unitary authority, independent of Wiltshire Council since 1997. Residents of Swindon are known as Swindonians. The town is home to the offices of English Heritage, the Historic England Archive (formerly the National Monuments Record Centre) and the headquarters of the National Trust (all three are on parts of the site of the former Great Western Railway's Swindon Works), and the head office of the Nationwide Building Society.
