Grounds and Gardens Roles
| Posting date: | 10 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 November 2025 |
| Location: | Harewood, Leeds |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Countryside Jobs Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
The Harewood Estate spans some 4000 acres and lies nestled between Leeds and Harrogate, set in the sweeping Yorkshire landscape designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown 250 years ago. The Estate has a diverse range of business interests including commercial units, residential properties, holiday cottages, arable and livestock farming, forestry, renewable energy generation, food production and hospitality.
The Estate has many Listed Buildings and features, a mix of tenants and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year. Recent years have seen landscape and heritage restoration and regeneration projects which are restoring damaged and degraded historic structures, ecosystems and natural processes, creating new habitats, encouraging greater biodiversity and enhancing natural capital functions. We are constantly working to protect our past while staying relevant for the future.
The grounds team ensures the grounds and gardens are maintained to a high standard across the Estate including holiday cottages, entrance routes, commercial office units, car parks, private gardens and the Emmerdale film set. We are looking for self-motivated, inspiring, skilled and dedicated people with a passion for the environment, conservation and the outdoors, who want to play a part in maintaining and improving our landscapes for future generations.
Role Profile
• Deliver grounds maintenance tasks across the Harewood Estate, including grass cutting using push and ride-on machinery, strimming, jet-washing, road-sweeping, hedge cutting, and leaf clearance.
• Horticultural tasks including planting regimes for beds, baskets and planters, propagation, weeding, pruning, and watering.
• Assisting with wider estate duties such as bin collection, winter tree planting, repair and construction of fences, set up & de-rig of high-profile events and other jobs as required.
• Roles require a significant amount of physical work and require working in all weather conditions as well as on your own and within a team.
• Operate and maintain grounds machinery with proper regard to safety regulations in accordance with health & safety procedures.
• Setting up machines and preparing power tools and other equipment for safe and effective use.
• Carrying out safety checks and maintenance of equipment to ensure that equipment is kept in a good working order and adheres to health and safety regulations.
• Manager role will line manage, support and motivate a small team, and have some budgetary responsibility. They will be responsible for rotas and allocation of jobs to staff across the site ensuring appropriate skills and number of staff to deliver jobs safely and in a timely fashion.
• Emmerdale role will conduct a wide range of tasks working closely with the production and locations teams to ensure the site is fit for television. This requires a discreet and flexible approach to work, undertaking some tasks at potentially unsociable hours to fit around the filming schedule. Some holidays must be taken at the times of site shutdowns.
Skills and Experience Required
• Experience in a similar role of grounds management or large-scale gardening (essential)
• Experience with grounds and gardening machinery and equipment and relevant tickets and qualifications (essential)
• Recognised qualification (e.g. NVQ, RHS, Degree) (desirable)
• PA1 and PA6 spray certification (desirable)
• Full, clean driving licence (essential)
• Experience of driving farm vehicles including tractors, trucks and quad bikes (desirable)
• Friendly, helpful and considerate personality (essential)
• Self-motivated and able to manage your own time to deadlines (essential)
• Punctual, honest and reliable with a strong attention to detail (essential)
• Experience of adhering to health and safety and risk assessment requirements (essential)
• Works well with a small team to complete large scale projects (essential)
Roles are offered on a 2-year fixed term contract initially with the possibility of extension depending on opportunities and funding at the end of this time
The Estate has many Listed Buildings and features, a mix of tenants and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year. Recent years have seen landscape and heritage restoration and regeneration projects which are restoring damaged and degraded historic structures, ecosystems and natural processes, creating new habitats, encouraging greater biodiversity and enhancing natural capital functions. We are constantly working to protect our past while staying relevant for the future.
The grounds team ensures the grounds and gardens are maintained to a high standard across the Estate including holiday cottages, entrance routes, commercial office units, car parks, private gardens and the Emmerdale film set. We are looking for self-motivated, inspiring, skilled and dedicated people with a passion for the environment, conservation and the outdoors, who want to play a part in maintaining and improving our landscapes for future generations.
Role Profile
• Deliver grounds maintenance tasks across the Harewood Estate, including grass cutting using push and ride-on machinery, strimming, jet-washing, road-sweeping, hedge cutting, and leaf clearance.
• Horticultural tasks including planting regimes for beds, baskets and planters, propagation, weeding, pruning, and watering.
• Assisting with wider estate duties such as bin collection, winter tree planting, repair and construction of fences, set up & de-rig of high-profile events and other jobs as required.
• Roles require a significant amount of physical work and require working in all weather conditions as well as on your own and within a team.
• Operate and maintain grounds machinery with proper regard to safety regulations in accordance with health & safety procedures.
• Setting up machines and preparing power tools and other equipment for safe and effective use.
• Carrying out safety checks and maintenance of equipment to ensure that equipment is kept in a good working order and adheres to health and safety regulations.
• Manager role will line manage, support and motivate a small team, and have some budgetary responsibility. They will be responsible for rotas and allocation of jobs to staff across the site ensuring appropriate skills and number of staff to deliver jobs safely and in a timely fashion.
• Emmerdale role will conduct a wide range of tasks working closely with the production and locations teams to ensure the site is fit for television. This requires a discreet and flexible approach to work, undertaking some tasks at potentially unsociable hours to fit around the filming schedule. Some holidays must be taken at the times of site shutdowns.
Skills and Experience Required
• Experience in a similar role of grounds management or large-scale gardening (essential)
• Experience with grounds and gardening machinery and equipment and relevant tickets and qualifications (essential)
• Recognised qualification (e.g. NVQ, RHS, Degree) (desirable)
• PA1 and PA6 spray certification (desirable)
• Full, clean driving licence (essential)
• Experience of driving farm vehicles including tractors, trucks and quad bikes (desirable)
• Friendly, helpful and considerate personality (essential)
• Self-motivated and able to manage your own time to deadlines (essential)
• Punctual, honest and reliable with a strong attention to detail (essential)
• Experience of adhering to health and safety and risk assessment requirements (essential)
• Works well with a small team to complete large scale projects (essential)
Roles are offered on a 2-year fixed term contract initially with the possibility of extension depending on opportunities and funding at the end of this time