Estates Operatives - Grounds Maintenance

Orbit Group; Rugby; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing organization in the UK seeks a Grounds Maintenance operative to maintain and enhance community estates in Rugby. The ideal candidate should have gardening experience, a valid UK driving license, and knowledge of health and safety practices. This full-time role involves maintaining landscaped areas, ensuring cleanliness, and communicating with customers. With opportunities for development and a commitment to community well-being, this position is both rewarding and impactful.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Training and development programs

Inclusive benefits and wellbeing programmes

Qualifications

• Must hold a current full UK driving licence.
• Experience with appropriate plant and machinery.
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers.

Responsibilities

• Maintain landscaped areas to a high standard.
• Ensure cleanliness and compliance with health and safety.
• Carry out routine maintenance of gardening equipment.

Skills

Gardening/estates services experience

Understanding of health and safety requirements

Effective communication

Ability to plan workloads

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 role is full time and based in Rugby and surrounding areas

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.