Estates Maintenance Operative

ZipRecruiter; Newton Abbot; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking social landlord as an Estates Maintenance Operative, where you'll contribute to creating beautiful landscapes and enhancing community living. With a focus on grounds maintenance, you'll engage in a variety of tasks, from cutting grass to planting flowers, while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. This role offers a supportive environment with excellent benefits, including training opportunities and generous leave. If you're self-motivated and passionate about customer service, this is the perfect opportunity to make a difference in your community.

Benefits

Training opportunities

25 days leave plus bank holidays

Pension scheme

Free parking

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in all aspects of grounds maintenance.
• Clean current driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Cut grass, maintain hedges, and plant shrubs and flowers.
• Resolve enquiries from tenants and oversee Health & Safety compliance.

Skills

Grounds Maintenance

Customer Service

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Health & Safety Qualification

Pesticide Training

Tools

Industrial Machinery

Trailer Towing

Job description

Job Description

We want to build great communities, not just great homes. You'll help us make it happen. Teign Housing is a successful social landlord employing over 100 ambitious, committed people, responsible for managing more than 4,000 homes across South Devon. We're passionate about providing the best possible homes, and as one of our Estates Maintenance Operatives, you'll help us make the places we live look even better.

About the Estates Maintenance Operative role

As an Estates Maintenance Operative, you'll cut grass, maintain hedges, and plant shrubs and flowers to create attractive landscapes. You will resolve enquiries from tenants and oversee Health & Safety compliance in everything you do, offering plenty of variety and responsibility.

About you

Experienced in all aspects of grounds maintenance, you will hold a clean current driving licence and be capable of using industrial machinery safely.

Needless to say, you should share our passion for customer service and be self-motivated, well-organised, and hardworking. You will bring excellent interpersonal skills. A formal Health & Safety qualification would be very useful, as would a trailer towing licence and some pesticide training, but these are by no means essential, as we will provide a comprehensive induction.

Benefits

We are an Investor in People Platinum organisation, so you will be joining a company that fosters a supportive high-performance culture. You can also expect to enjoy an excellent benefits package, including:

• Training opportunities
• 25 days leave plus bank holidays and discretionary leave between Christmas and New Year
• Pension scheme
• Free parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• And much more

To take on this exciting challenge, please visit our website and complete our online application form.

Closing date: 16 May 2025

Interview date: 20 May 2025

Applications will be considered as they are received, so early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate applies.

Teign Housing is committed to its policy on equality and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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