Grounds Maintenance Operative

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; England; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual GP for you and household

Salary Finance benefits

Choices benefits platform

MiDeals discounts

Cycle-to-work scheme

Life cover

Mitie Stars recognition with prizes

Job summary

Mitie Landscapes has an exciting opportunity for a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our team at the UK's market leading FM company. You will deliver grounds maintenance and winter services, ensuring exceptional service daily.

You will need a Full UK Driving Licence, spraying licences PA1/PA6, CSCS, IOSH, and access to restricted areas. This permanent, full-time role offers progression and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Must hold UK driving licence and relevant spraying licences.
• CSCS card and IOSH Working Safely or equivalent.
• Access to restricted/secure site areas and driving roles.

Responsibilities

• Grass cutting, hedge cutting, border maintenance, leaf clearance and spraying.
• Deliver winter services on on-call rota, including gritting.
• Report site hazards and maintain health and safety procedures.
• Operate all vehicles and machinery according to safety rules.
• Attend required training; work in high security areas as needed.
• Maintain client sites and support general grounds maintenance.

Skills

Outdoor work

Winter work flexibility

Smartphone proficiency

Tools

Full UK Driving Licence

PA1 & PA6 spraying licences

CSCS card

IOSH Working Safely

Access to C2-R2 Areas

Ropes & Harness training

IPAF HA/HU

Tractor & Loader operation

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Job Title: Grounds Maintenance Operative

Hourly Rate of Pay: £15.26

Contract Type: Permanent

Type of Employment: Full Time

Total Weekly Contractual Hours: 40

Location: Sellafield, Location C0656, Seascale, Cumbria, England CA20 1PG

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 Line Manager, you will be delivering Grounds Maintenance and Winter Services and ensuring you deliver the exceptional every day.

You will be responsible for

• Maintaining our clients' sites. Grass cutting, hedge cutting, border maintenance, leaf clearance, and spraying.
• Delivering our winter services on a on - call rota basis, including gritting and any additional General Winter Maintenance, this is a compulsory retirement.
• Providing management with relevant information and reporting as required, including reporting any site hazards.
• Operating all vehicles, machinery and equipment in accordance with Health & Safety procedures.
• Undertaking any training as and when required.
• Required to work in High Security Ares and Separation.

What We Are Looking For

• A passion for working outdoors.
• Prepared to work in an agile and flexible working environment (Winter working).
• A good understanding of smartphone technology.
• Grounds Maintenance and Gritting experience
• PA1 & PA6 spraying licence,
• Full driving licence.
• CSCS + IOSH Working Safely / Equivalent.
• Access to C2-R2 Areas.
• Ropes and Harness and IPAF HA, HU.
• Building Controller.
• Tractor & Loader

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 84,000 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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