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Car Park Support Officer
London Borough of Hounslow
Hounslow
On-site
GBP 22,000 - 28,000
Full time
22 days ago
Job summary
The London Borough of Hounslow is seeking a Car Park Support Officer to maintain cleanliness in the borough's car parks. This role involves operating vehicles and handling maintenance tasks to ensure a safe and tidy environment for residents and visitors. Candidates should hold a full UK driving licence and may be required to handle heavy items.
Qualifications
- Able to drive and operate a mechanised cleaning vehicle.
- Able to manually handle items up to 50kg.
- Competent in using tools for vegetation cutting.
Responsibilities
- Clean and maintain car parks using mechanical and hand tools.
- Empty litter bins and remove fly-tips.
- Clear vegetation as per the schedule.
Skills
Operational Skills for Cleaning Vehicles
Manual Handling
Tool Handling
Job description
About Us At Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
The Parking Infrastructure team within the Traffic, Transport & Parking department of the London Borough of Hounslow seeks to recruit an enthusiastic and flexible individual who can meet the challenge of providing clean car parks to the London Borough of Hounslow. The primary function of the role is to clean the car parks that are operated by the London Borough of Hounslow, including using a small mechanical sweeping vehicle.
The role involves early starts and working on Saturday on a rota basis, for which a day off will be given during the week. The applicant must have a full clean driving licence with no prosecutions pending.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Reporting to the Parking Infrastructure Manager, the Car Park Support Officers will ensure that the car park surface area is free of litter and rubbish. This will entail using a motorised cleaning vehicle or hand-held device.
The team also empty the car park litter bins and clear any “fly-tips” and dispose of collected rubbish to the appropriate site, providing a clean and tidy environment for residents and visitors to the Borough.
Additionally, the team carry out vegetation cut-back in accordance with the schedule outlined by the Infrastructure Manager.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
Full UK driving licence (B1 or Group: A)
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email:
Telephone: 0208 583 6593
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 4th August 2025.
Email:
Telephone: 0208 583 6593
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 4th August 2025.
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
The Parking Infrastructure team within the Traffic, Transport & Parking department of the London Borough of Hounslow seeks to recruit an enthusiastic and flexible individual who can meet the challenge of providing clean car parks to the London Borough of Hounslow. The primary function of the role is to clean the car parks that are operated by the London Borough of Hounslow, including using a small mechanical sweeping vehicle.
The role involves early starts and working on Saturday on a rota basis, for which a day off will be given during the week. The applicant must have a full clean driving licence with no prosecutions pending.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
Reporting to the Parking Infrastructure Manager, the Car Park Support Officers will ensure that the car park surface area is free of litter and rubbish. This will entail using a motorised cleaning vehicle or hand-held device.
The team also empty the car park litter bins and clear any “fly-tips” and dispose of collected rubbish to the appropriate site, providing a clean and tidy environment for residents and visitors to the Borough.
Additionally, the team carry out vegetation cut-back in accordance with the schedule outlined by the Infrastructure Manager.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
- Able to drive and operate a mechanised cleaning vehicle for which training will be given.
- Able to drive a “Transit” sized vehicle towing a trailer.
- Able to manually handle heavy items. Where necessary and with assistance and appropriate equipment this may include loads weighing up to 50kg.
- Ability to competently handle a variety of common tools, both powered and on-powered used in the cutting of vegetation within the car parks.
Full UK driving licence (B1 or Group: A)
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email:
Telephone: 0208 583 6593
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 4th August 2025.
Email:
Telephone: 0208 583 6593
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 4th August 2025.
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