Grounds Maintenance Operative

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative to deliver exceptional services at various client sites. The role involves outdoor work including grounds maintenance, winter services, and operating vehicles and equipment while adhering to safety procedures. Applicants should be passionate about outdoor work and possess a full UK driving license.

Benefits

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to high street discounts

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Previous grounds maintenance experience is desirable but not necessary.
• PAI & PA6 spraying license is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Grass and hedge cutting, border maintenance, clearing leaves.
• Use powered horticultural machinery to maintain sites.

Skills

Passion for outdoor work

Understanding of smartphone technology

Education

Full UK Driving License

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Job Title: Grounds Maintenance Operative

Hourly Rate of Pay: £12.21

Contract Type: Permanent

Type of Employment: Full Time

Total Weekly Contractual Hours: 40

Location: Regional Recruitment - Birmingham, West Midlands, England, B2 4QA

Requirement: Full UK Driving License

Mitie Landscapes has an exciting opportunity for a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our team at the UK's market leading FM company. Reporting to the Contracts Manager, you will be delivering exceptional grounds maintenance and winter services for our clients' sites.

Main duties and responsibilities for this role include grass and hedge cutting, border maintenance, clearing leaves, spraying, litter picking, and using hand tools and powered horticultural machinery to ensure all sites and external areas are maintained to a high standard. You will need to deliver additional services during the winter, such as gritting, clearing snow and installing Christmas trees. Additionally, you will report to management with relevant information regarding site hazards, operate a range of vehicles, machinery and equipment in accordance with health and safety procedures, and undertake additional training as and when required.

To succeed in this role, you must be passionate about working outdoors and be prepared to work across agile and flexible environments, as well as possessing a good understanding of smartphone technology. Previous grounds maintenance experience is desirable but not necessary, as is a PAI & PA6 spraying license. A full driving license is also preferable as some roles require use of company vehicles. You will report to the Contracts Manager.

Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices. This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle. You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.

Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants. We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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