Team Leader Lawn Care Group 80-100%
Stadt St.Gallen
St.Gallen
Key information
- Publication date:14 January 2026
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:St.Gallen
Job summary
Join our team as a Group Leader for green space management! Enjoy a supportive work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Lead and manage a team responsible for maintaining 36 ha of green spaces.
- Oversee natural turf care, including mowing, aerating, and seeding.
- Act as a contact point for various stakeholders and groups.
Skills
- Must have a gardening qualification and experience in sports field maintenance.
- Strong leadership and team collaboration skills are essential.
- Familiarity with administrative tasks and reliability is required.
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Your new role
As a team leader, you are responsible for the professional, personnel, and operational management of your employees. The lawn care group, consisting of eight people, maintains an area of around 36 ha and is thus jointly responsible for the maintenance of the city's green spaces. Your main task is the care of the city's natural turf fields with mowing, aeration, deep loosening, overseeding, sand application, etc., as well as the maintenance of artificial turf pitches. You are also the contact person for various stakeholder groups.
This position is for you if
- You have training as a gardener EFZ with specialized further education as a gardener with a federal certificate of competence, master gardener, or head greenkeeper and have experience in sports field maintenance.
- You can demonstrate several years of leadership experience and are familiar with administrative tasks.
- Team orientation, reliability, and independence are among your strengths.
Good reasons to work for the City of St.Gallen:
Your department
City Green plans, designs, and maintains the public green spaces of the City of St.Gallen. We are responsible for the green areas of sports and school facilities, parks, street trees, playgrounds, cemeteries, the botanical garden, as well as nature and landscape protection.
What we offer
We offer you a versatile workplace with an interesting activity throughout the city area. You can expect a motivated, well-coordinated team. Regular working hours, work time models that can be adapted to your needs, a municipal family allowance, and a 20-day paternity leave are part of our family-friendly framework conditions.
Our selection process
For further information about the position, please contact Martin Streit, Head of Public Facilities, phone 071 224 40 34. For the selection process, please contact Verena Signer, HR clerk, phone 071 224 50 02. Please submit your complete application exclusively online. We will confirm receipt of your application immediately. Your dossier will be reviewed by the central personnel services as well as by the responsible persons at City Green. If it fits, we will invite you to one or two interviews on site at City Green.
We value diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.
