Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Closing date for applications: 29 September 2026
Ipswich Town Football Club are seeking a senior groundsperson who is enthusiastic, self-motivated to work alongside a team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• To assist the Head Grounds person and the Grounds Manager to plan and
carry out the operations to maintain football pitches at the ITFC Stadium for
both the academy and the professional team squads to a high level.
• To help lead the team alongside the Head Stadium Groundsperson and
Grounds Manager.
• Using machinery including tractors, mowers, and hand tools safely and
responsibly
• Operate the irrigation system.
• Fertilise and spray pitches.
• Marking out pitches to a good standard.
• Divotting
• Assist in maintaining lawn areas, shrub beds and keeping paths tidy.
• Maintaining a clean grounds yard and machinery storage area.
• Carry out basis prestart check and cleaning down of machinery after use.
• Report machinery/system faults to the Grounds Manager.
• Show a can-do attitude and work proactively within the team.
The Club History:
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club, currently playing in League One, with aspirations of climbing back to the premiership.
The club was founded in 1878 and turned professional in 1936; it was subsequently elected to join the Football League in 1938. Ipswich won the English league title in 1961–62, their first season in the top flight, and finished runners-up in 1980–81 and 1981–82. They finished in the top six in the English First Division for ten years, apart from when they won the FA Cup in 1977–78.
The Club Today:
Ipswich Town is at the start of an exciting journey, as a Family Club our ethos ‘BEING AS ONE’ to become ONE when you work together on shared goal, you collaborate. Are you ready to join us on this journey?