Grounds Maintenance Operative

Vivid Homes; Aldershot; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a dedicated Grounds Maintenance Operative to join its vibrant team. In this full-time role, you'll be responsible for maintaining communal outdoor areas, ensuring they are safe, clean, and visually appealing. With a focus on teamwork and communication, you will interact with residents and colleagues while performing various maintenance tasks. Enjoy a supportive work culture that values your contributions and offers numerous perks, including generous holiday, a productivity-related bonus, and opportunities for personal development. If you have a passion for outdoor work and a commitment to quality service, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Productivity-related bonus scheme

Uniform and PPE provided

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plan

Enhanced parental leave pay

Access to counselling services

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in grounds maintenance and operating various equipment.
• Good communication skills to interact with residents and team.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine grounds maintenance tasks like grass cutting and weeding.
• Ensure communal areas are clean and safe for residents.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Communication skills

Teamwork

Equipment operation

Manual handling

Education

No formal education required

Tools

Grounds maintenance equipment

Job description

We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!

Love working in the great outdoors? We’re seeking a dedicated and hardworking Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our customer focused team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of communal outdoor areas, ensuring they are safe, clean, and visually appealing for our customers. Contractually based out of our Basingstoke office, you'll cover our properties in Aldershot and the surrounding area. This is a full-time permanent role, working 39 hours per week!

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• Uniform and PPE provided
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s the facts about the role:

As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you'll carry out a high standard of groundswork to make our communal grounds areas attractive for customers. You’ll have good communication skills and the ability to interact with residents and colleagues in a friendly and professional manner with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

You’ll have good knowledge and experience in this field with skills to operate a variety of equipment, machines and materials that you’ll use on a daily basis.

Duties will include:

• Routine grounds maintenance tasks, such as grass/hedge cutting, trimming, and weeding
• Hard area maintenance and low-level tree work as well as soft landscaping
• Ensuring communal areas are free from litter and debris.
• Perform regular inspections to identify and address any potential safety hazards
• Assist with seasonal tasks, such as leaf removal
• Operating grounds maintenance equipment and tools
• Respond promptly to maintenance requests from residents

We do our best to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible. However, due to the nature of this position, the job holder must be capable of:

• Working at heights
• Manual handling and lifting heavy and bulky items
• A high degree of mobility, which will include walking/lifting/loading and unloading vehicles
  

Offers are subject to a full, clean current driving licence (held for at least 1 year) to be able to drive one of our vans when needed. This role requires a DBS check.

The Company

We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.

Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.

We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the fifth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.

This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.

Living VIVID

We’re ranked 91 in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For and ranked 12 amongst housing associations.

As a ‘people’ business, we work hard to create a high-performing and fun working environment. We invest in our people’s development, whilst looking after their wellbeing with our award-winning initiatives.

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies.

We’re a disability confident leader with disabled-friendly offices and we’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form.