Alex - Ground Control Ltd

I'm in Devizes, so I'll keep my ears out. Is it Aster?

If you're interested in the opportunity, check out the site below.

Summer Maintenance Teams | Grounds Maintenance

There's a PQQ to fill in and return, which is pretty self-explanatory, but if you have any comments or queries, feel free to contact myself or Jim directly on the numbers provided.

Since the VTR1000, I've added a new MT-07 to my fleet.

Next on the list is this one...

As direct staff I can say it's fact. It has a lot to do with the staff, contractors and ground controls management systems. They are quite impressive.

On the whole a great team to be part of.

I'll pass your comments on to the Arb team. They'll be very happy to hear that!

Yes but WHO HAS STAFFORDSHIRE??

Its between GC and Glendale, I think? I know we'll be covering Stoke/Telford/Shrewsbury/Tipton...

All I can say is ground control is the way forward.

Cheers! Can I ask why? Always good to hear people's opinions.

As far as I'm aware it's all ground control up there

High line,birch,fountains,west coast, ground control. They are who's on now.

Here's where you sign up, for anyone interested.

Arboricultural Rail and Utility Teams | Jobs Vacancies

Thanks for the overwhelming response, everybody. If you've contacted either myself or Emma but have not yet received the appropriate PQQ forms, they can now be downloaded directly from our website;

Arboricultural Rail and Utility Teams | Jobs Vacancies

Summer Maintenance Teams | Grounds Maintenance

Winter Maintenance Teams | Jobs Vacancies

For teams also interested in our other divisions (Fencing, Landscape Construction, Pest Control, etc) please ensure that you use the Summer Maintenance form to provide your details.

Ground Control Ltd is one of the UK.’s most established landscape solutions providers. To develop our “go-above-and-beyond” philosophy whilst ensuring that neighbourhoods flourish, we are looking to immediately expand our operation across the UK (particularly in the Oban, Aberdeen, Rothesay or Keswick areas) with the addition of several more field teams.

If you are a smart and presentable grounds maintenance team of 2 or 3 operatives and you fit the following criteria, we would love to hear from you;

• Have your own van and garden maintenance tools

• Have solid experience with maintaining commercial gardens and/or recognised qualifications

• Are business minded with a driven entrepreneurial desire who want to expand

• Are available to take on additional work

An NPTC PA1 PA6a spraying certificate would also be an advantage, but not compulsory as training for this can be provided.

If you would like to be considered or would simply like to know more then please contact us on 01277 844545 / 01277 650697, email [email protected] / [email protected] or simply click the link below!

Summer Maintenance Teams | Grounds Maintenance

Hi all, I'm 22 and all I have been thinking about for the last year is going alone. Now I have been in the industry for around 14 months now, climbing most days, I consider myself fairly capable of doing most trees, I'm not saying I'm mega! And may not be the quickest when it comes to the difficult ones but have learnt from the best, and I have got huge drive and ambition to become the best climber I can possibly be.

 

I have been saving and managed to get around 12k behind me now which I have to spend on chipper, equipment, also looking at landscaping too mowers etc would this be enough to set up a solid business?

 

Would I be able to subbie out to other companies etc if I was running my own business? Is this something that people do, or is it generally just subbie climbers that get majority of the work?

 

How do you approach potential clients for contracts? Is it a simple case of a letter and is there a list of jobs which go up for tender in certain places and you have to be approved contractors etc? I'm mainly thinking about the landscaping, grass cutting side of things here.

 

Also what age was you when you set up?

 

Shall I go for it, got no one to speak to about it and where better to go than here

 

Just after advice and wisdom from you guys

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

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I've just sent you a PM about some opportunities for you. Really worth following it up if you're interested.

Regards,

Alex

"I'd be quite happy to quote for the work, if you're happy to pay for it".

Should nip anything in the bud, so to speak.

It can have pretty unpleasant effects.

We have to do a lot of maintenance works for MF broadcasting poles for a couple of clients, and have to arrange site access well in advance to ensure the transmissions are turned off so they don't fry our PDAs/Tablets/Operatives!

Congratulations.

 

Been browsing your website and couldn't see whether or not you were AAAC's? For such a large 'green services provider' does that have an impact on what arboricultural contracts you've been able to secure up to now?

 

Also noticed the recent 'advert' on here regarding setting up a team and providing a substantial sum of the finance towards it. Is this the norm across the company and how it has been able to expand so quickly in such a short period of time or solely as part of expanding the Arb side?

Thank you! The website is incredibly dated (last news article was from 2011 I think?) so may have some information missing. We're going to be launching a new one in the coming weeks so I'm sure it'll have information on all our accreditations and certifications then. Our Arb division was relatively small until the acquisition of UPM Tilhill a few years back, primarily piggy-backing on our GM division; since then its revenues have increased threefold through organic and strategic growth.

the financing opportunity is a new concept that was introduced by one of our new directors to help establish teams in strategic areas. We've done similar things in the past with our directly-employed maintenance staff, but never really offered it out to teams that are not already working under the Ground Control umbrella.

Its a really exciting time to be with the company right now, watching it transform from a small local company in a converted stable into this national behemoth operating from a purpose built office!

wow thats a lot of people, very impressive!

 

are you the owner?

If only! I'd be riding a much nicer motorbike if I were!

I'm in operations, coordinating the Grounds Maintenance teams and Contract Managers

Followed a Ground Control Van for a few miles today, Transit towing a TW, a nice steady load of chip in the back, I'm sure it was overloaded

Whereabouts was that? i'll check the trackers and give them a stern speaking to

Well done indeed.

 

How many employees do you have and how long have you been going for?

Been going since the 70's, but only in the past decade has it really expanded.

I'm not sure about numbers because there are several divisions (Grounds Maintenance, Arb Rail, Arb Utilities, Winter Maintenance, Fencing, Construction) but i'd estimate we're close to 1,000 full time employees now.

why not no-one will ever know .. live a little

If the highlight of my life is taking credit for others work, kill me now!

Well done. You must be very proud.

There are a few of us working on increasing the company profile right now, and an accolade like this certainly helps!

good luck & well done

Cheers! I cant take all the credit, though!

i know its gonna seem like a lot of hot air, but i'm really proud to say that Ground Control have been named in London Stock Exchange's list of the fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.

1000 Companies to Inspire Britain | London Stock Exchange Group

There were over 4.5 million applicants, so making it in the top 1000 (0.02%) is a real achievement, and a strong indicator of the companies ambitions over the coming years; particularly in the Arb sector.

Hi ryan just taking a look back through this thread and noticed you work for ground control and the company im now working for actually do some work for you-anglia infrastructure

You're just down the road from our head office in Billericay, right?

We're currently redesigning our website, using WordPress.

Have we had this one here yet? The quick way of clearing a tree that's fallen across HV lines!

 

shocking!

Nobody ever uses this tune. Nice videos though.

we'll get that on the next video!

There are pro's and cons for everything. You may be charged a fee for its use, but then you're earning interest on the transaction while its in your account and not the clients.

Hiya,

 

Does anyone use a mobile Debit/Credit card machine? If so does it work ok for you? I have been thinking about maybe getting a mobile pay as you go type of thing as I have heard some people talk about them. I appreciate they cost a bit but the small cost will be passed on to the customer. Im fed up with the usual "havnt got any cash at the mo" type of responce when it comes to payment after doing a job! Cheques are ok but by the time I have finnished work the bank is shut, its extra hassle and being a small business cashflow is important so would like a way of getting payment easier and not having to wait atleast 3 days for cheques to clear (normally more including weekends). Any ideas??

 

Regards,

 

Anthony.

What phone do you have, currently? There are portable payment devices that can be attached to your smartphone and used for card transactions. Theres no monthly subscription, just a small percentage taken from each transaction.

Great videos Alex, i love the Arb one!

 

Will be singing the tune all day now.

Tell me about it... Have you seen the "Place Your Hands" music video, yet? We cant get it on YouTube because of license agreements etc, but its basically the MD dancing around the office to Reef.

The sort of thing that would go viral for all the wrong reasons!

Nice video - very professional.

Thanks, Paul.

We're just trying to get the name out there now, really. Every new employee has basically said the same thing; "how can no-one kow about a company that is so big?!"