James Wallace

I worked as a groundskeeper at the Melbourne grand Prix, maintaining all the grass around the track and public areas.

• Maintained grass condition through mowing, treating and strimming.

• Improved cemetery aesthetics by regularly using ride-on and push mowers to cut grass, as well as pruning trees and shrubs.
• Contributed to team efficiency with excellent communication skills.
• Facilitated visitor satisfaction by maintaining clean and tidy walkways.
• Assisted with grave digging and burials using excavators and shovels

• Assisted with food prep at start of shift
• Washed and dried dishes before storing away correctly, maintaining an organised working environment
• Maintained high standards of cleanliness by regularly cleaning work areas.
• Safeguarded food quality, storing ingredients properly after use.

• Housekeeping: Cleaning and preparing rooms, collecting bed linen and towels to be sent off to laundry service.
• Grounds Maintenance: Water tests of swimming pool to ensure correct level of chlorine. Pool cleaning and tidying of seating area around pool. Making repairs around the hotel, trimming hedges, mowing grass, watered plants, window cleaning
• Kitchen work: Helped to prepare breakfasts and delivered to guests. Washed dishes, delivered room service meals to guests and collected trays from outside rooms. Deep cleaned kitchen and emptied bins

• House keeping: laundry, cleaning the rooms, the kitchens, bbq areas, and common areas in the camp site.
• Maintenance duties: making repairs where needed in the rooms or around the resort. Draining the hot tubs daily, cleaning and refilling. Collecting and emptying all bins from around the campsite
• Grounds Work: Hedge trimming, weed removal and spraying, grass mowing. Helped with the construction of the cafe including concreting work, painting walls and furniture

• Ensured freshness of flowers with proper handling during picking.
• Sorted picked flowers, resulting in easier packaging and delivery process.

• Picking and packing flowers on a privately owned flower farm
• House keeping, cleaning both the house and work areas
• Gardening duties, hedge trimming, mowing lawns, watering flower beds
• Helping with the animals of the farm including feeding and picking up manure

• High level professional cleaning in a covid quarantine centre, sanitising and disinfecting rooms
• Performed basic housekeeping duties including changing bed linens and laundry services thereby contributing towards the general upkeep of the facility .

• My role was to carry out the installation, maintenance and fault rectification of various signalling equipment including points machines, signals and train detection equipment such as AWS, ATP, Track Circuits and TPWS
• I have mechanical and electrical knowledge as well as a great understanding for health and safety procedures and legislations.

I started the Network Rail apprenticeship scheme in September 2010. I spent the first year of my apprenticeship in Fareham where I took the necessary courses to learn about and work effectively on the Railway. The second and third years of my apprenticeship involved completing 22 work-based learning objectives and 9 NVQ assessments, whilst integrating and working with the S&T faulting and maintenance teams in Reading, learning about the operational railway and how to work safely and efficiently.