Grounds Maintenance Operative

Parkwood Holdings Limited; Great Amwell; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental services provider is hiring a Grounds Maintenance Operative for their East Herts - Ware Depot. The role involves outdoor maintenance tasks such as mowing, hedge trimming, and general landscaping activities. Candidates should be reliable, possess a strong work ethic, and ideally have experience in grounds maintenance. Benefits include a gym membership, health cash plan, and opportunities for career progression. The position offers a fixed term, full-time contract with variable hours based on seasonal demands.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Employee health cash plan

Employee discount portal

Pension scheme

Company sick pay

Career progression

Continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Previous experience of grounds maintenance work and horticultural tasks.
• Ability to work on one's own initiative.
• Reliable and conscientious.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking grounds maintenance work including mowing grassed areas.
• Strimming, blowing, and renovation of shrub beds.
• Hedge trimming and hard surface spraying operations.

Skills

Reliability

Conscientiousness

Willingness to learn

Ability to work on own initiative

Experience in grounds maintenance

Job description

VACANCY

Grounds Maintenance Operative | East Herts - Ware Depot

Hours/Salary & Benefits: Depending on Experience

Fixed Term Full Time Role - 34 hours per week winter hours & 44 hours per week summer hours.

• Summer Season (March - September): 7am-4.30pm Monday to Thursday and 7am-3.30pm Friday's
• Winter Season (October - February): 7.30am-3pm Monday to Thursday and 7.30am-2pm Friday's

Do you enjoy working outdoors? Are you able to work in a team and under your own initiative?

If you identify with the above, this role was made for you!

At Glendale, we have a great new opportunity and most importantly, you will be joining a company that can offer valuable career prospects and believes in investing in its people.

Who are we?

Glendale, a family owned company since 1989, is a market-leading, technology-focused, respected, environmental services provider. At the forefront of green service provision in the UK Glendale has revenues of over £65m and is proud to say we have been awarded the 2025 Pro Landscape Business Awards Supreme Winner and the BALI Employer Excellence Award Winner for 2025.

Activities throughout the UK include grounds management, arboriculture, landscaping, estate management, vegetation control, woodland management, supply and relocation of plants and semi-mature trees, winter services and the management of sports facilities.

Committed to the environment, Glendale is a Carbon Neutral business that seeks to improve the environment through our activities and go above and beyond to ensure that the planet is not adversely affected by our business. From ensuring local parks and open spaces are maintained to a high standard, to tree safety through our arboricultural teams, to saving mature trees through our Civic Tree business and ensuring sustainable design through our landscape architecture practice. Glendale offered the full range of landscape services from one unique source of professionals.

For more information visit www.glendale-services.co.uk.

The Opportunity

Undertaking grounds maintenance work including mowing large grassed areas, strimming, blowing, line marking and renovation, hedge trimming along with general maintenance to shrub beds. Sports markings, hedge cutting and hard surface spraying operations. In the Winter months there may also be a requirement to carry out gritting on roads and pavements on an adhoc/call out basis.

The Person

Among the personal characteristics sought:

• Reliable and conscientious
• A can do attitude
• A willingness to learn
• Ability to work on one's own initiative
• Previous experience of grounds maintenance work, horticultural tasks.

What can Glendale offer you?

• Free gym membership for you and a nominated person
• Employee health cash plan
• Employee discount portal - discounts on travel bookings, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending
• Pension scheme
• Company sick pay
• Genuine career progression
• Continuous professional development

We are proud to be Equal Opportunity employers and are committed to inclusion and diversity

If you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as interviews will be held throughout the process. Please note that if you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.