Bristol City Council
Parks Estates Manager
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Parks Estates Manager
Location: Bristol
Salary: 70,919
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Job Description
Employment: Full time
Category: Parks
Posted: 2026-10-01
Valid to: 2026-10-14
Apply: Bristol City Council
Full Time, Permanent
This is a career-defining opportunity to lead the management and maintenance of Bristol’s rich and diverse parks and green space estate.
Receiving over 17 million visits a year, the city’s 430 public parks and green spaces are an incredible resource for both residents and visitors. Our allotment and community food growing spaces cover over 220 hectares and cater for over 400 independent growers, and our dedicated teams manage over 54,000 trees across the city.
Responsibilities
As Parks Estate Manager, you will control, develop, and organise multiple teams and resources to deliver sustainable, high-quality, and safe public parks and food-growing spaces that meet public expectations on quality and safety.
- Working with your management team, you will deliver grounds maintenance and tree management services for all green spaces in the city, ensuring resources adapt to deliver changing specifications and performance targets.
- You will work innovatively with communities, citizens, and partners to maintain and improve green spaces and green space assets, encouraging volunteering and local ownership.
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Requirements
To be successful, you will need to be a highly driven and results-focused individual, an adaptable and focused leader with excellent people skills.
- You will have significant experience in leading operational teams and resources, ideally augmented by professional qualifications in environmental management or horticulture.
- You will have an excellent understanding of health and safety requirements and of the challenges and practicalities of working in the public sector.
Why Bristol City Council?
At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast-moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation.
- For the majority of our roles, hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice.
- Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance.
- In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.
How to Apply
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To be shortlisted for interview, you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application.
On occasion, we will receive high numbers of applications. We may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.
We're a Disability Confident employer, which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people.
Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview.
We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
Diversity and Inclusion
Bristol City Council values having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop, and promote people from all sections of the community.
- Appointments will be made on merit.
- The personal information section (including your name) you’ll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.
For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact Richard Fletcher at Bristol City Council.
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