Grounds & Environmental Services Operative (Flexible Hours)

Riverside-12e5e24d; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our team in Stoke-on-Trent. You will undertake maintenance tasks across landscaped areas, cutting grass, hedge trimming, litter picking, and maintaining safety across-site.

The role is permanent, full-time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We value candidates with grounds maintenance experience, a clean driving licence, good IT skills and a strong customer focus.

Qualifications

• Environmental Services / grounds maintenance experience.
• Ability to undertake manual work.
• Customer focussed with excellent communication skills.
• Clean driving licence
• Basic IT skills including Microsoft Office.
• Excellent team player who can work flexibly to meet business requirements

Responsibilities

• Undertake general maintenance to hard and soft landscaped areas owned by the Group, including grass cutting, hedge trimming, litter picking, clearing leaves and shrub bed cultivations
• Provide a rapid flexible response to the removal of fly tipping, rubbish removal and graffiti removal.
• Maintain safe working practices at all times when utilising appropriate hand tools and machinery.
• Report health, safety and environmental breaches and issues to the Grounds Maintenance Supervisor in line with the agreed escalation route.
• Apply ‘Our Riverside Way’ within the environmental offer by delivering excellent levels of customer service at all times.
• Provide community insight, reporting any environmental issues, community safety or resident feedback to the Environmental Supervisor as appropriate and in line with the agreed escalation route.
• Maintain effective relationships with colleagues on each of our contracts.
• Undertake personal development and training to keep up to date with all relevant legislation.
• Work collaboratively and flexibly across all teams within the organisation.
• Ensure work activities are compliant with the organisation’s policies and procedures as well as external statutory and regulatory obligations.
• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities and undertake other duties when required to support the effective operation of the service.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and procedures
• Ensure that health and safety requirements are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Ensure that all information security requirements, including data protection, are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and statutory requirements.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Manual labour

Customer focus

Clean driving licence

IT skills

Team player

Job description

Riverside is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our team in Stoke-on-Trent. You will undertake maintenance tasks across landscaped areas, cutting grass, hedge trimming, litter picking, and maintaining safety across-site.

The role is permanent, full-time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We value candidates with grounds maintenance experience, a clean driving licence, good IT skills and a strong customer focus.