Estates Operative - Grounds Maintenance

Orbit Group; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbit Group is seeking a Grounds Maintenance operative to provide high-quality maintenance across Orbit estates and properties. The role involves mowing, hedge trimming, litter collection and general upkeep to ensure homes and surroundings meet Orbit standards.

You will drive company vehicles, maintain equipment, follow safety protocols and support residents by keeping outdoor spaces well-presented and safe. A full Driving Licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Must hold a current full UK driving licence and be willing to drive the association's vehicles.
• Experience of gardening/estates services activities including the use of appropriate plant and machinery.
• Understanding of health and safety requirements and safe working practices.
• Ability to plan workloads to ensure that all tasks are completed.
• To be able to communicate effectively with customers and staff.

Responsibilities

• Maintain landscaped and communal areas to a high standard, including mowing, hedges, borders, weeds and litter removal.
• Keep estates clean and tidy in line with Orbit standards and dispose of waste appropriately.
• Provide excellent customer service and signpost queries to the right service.
• Maintain gardening equipment and PPE, keeping inventory up to date.
• Adhere to health & safety requirements, including working at heights and risk assessments.

Skills

Full UK driving licence

Gardening/estates

Health & safety

Workload planning

Customer communication

Education

City and Guilds NVQ in estates maintenance

Tools

PA1/P A6 spraying

Job description

We're building thriving communities as one of the UK's largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that's truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

The purpose of this role is to provide high quality grounds maintenance and associated estates services for Orbit estates and properties .

This role is part of Property where you'll help us to lead the way investing and maintaining 46,000 homes.

This is a 40 Hour working week contract.

What you'll achieve

• Responsible for maintaining landscaped and communal areas to a high standard, including grass cutting, hedge cutting, shrub pruning, weed control maintaining of borders and litter picking
• Ensure that estates are kept in accordance with Orbit standards and in a clean and tidy condition, with all garden waste materials and litter removed from site and appropriately disposed of.
• Ensure that customers are satisfied with the services delivered across your areas of responsibility, communicating and signposting customers to appropriate service for other queries
• Responsible for carrying out or arranging routine maintenance of gardening equipment. Ensuring that tools, equipment, and personal protective equipment are kept to an acceptable standard and inventory kept and up to date
• Ensure all relevant Health & Safety compliance whilst on site, to include but not limited to, working at heights, lone working, manual handling, risk assessments, COSHH, ensuring that PPE, where appropriate, and Orbit's uniform is always worn
• To be responsible for the company vehicle, if appropriate, ensuring it is kept clean and in roadworthy condition, carrying out visual inspections and checks and arranging servicing/repairs as necessary once authorisation has been granted by In-House Team Leader
• To note and report damage, vandalism, hazards or fly tipping on estates and report these to the Property and Estates Coordinator

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Must hold a current full UK driving licence and be willing to drive the association's vehicles, including vans and tipper transits
• Experience of gardening/estates services activities including the use of appropriate plant and machinery
• Understanding of health and safety requirements and safe working practices
• Ability to plan workloads to ensure that all tasks are completed
• To be able to communicate effectively with customers and staff

Desirable skills

• PA1 and PA6 spraying certificate
• Ability to tow a trailer
• City and Guilds NVQ in estates maintenance

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here's what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you're a student, graduate or experienced professional we'll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We're proud to make a difference to people together. We're values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.