Grounds Maintenance Operative

Amey; Inverkeithing; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Career development

Choices

Save with Amey

Social Value

Job summary

Amey in Inverkeithing, Fife, UK, is recruiting a Permanent Grounds Maintenance Operative to support the Scottish Grounds Maintenance Account. The role covers grounds care across major school sites and local authority locations with diverse tasks and healthy development opportunities.

The position is full-time, with standard hours of 37.5 per week. You will work on horticulture tasks, equipment handling, sport surface maintenance, and site safety requirements in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Full driving licence preferably with trailer experience.
• General experience in grounds maintenance duties.
• Basic knowledge of gardening and horticulture.

Responsibilities

• Horticulture activities such as planting, pruning and seeding.
• Erecting and dismantling equipment.
• Setting out, making sports pitches including grass and tarmac surfaces.
• Upkeep of artificial and synthetic pitches.
• Tree care.
• Undertaking vehicle, tractor, and cutting equipment checks.
• Weather dependant, carrying out site gritting and snow clearing activities.

Skills

Full driving licence

Experience in grounds maintenance

Gardening and horticulture basics

Job description

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We have a fantastic opportunity for Permanent Grounds Maintenance Operatives to join our Scottish Grounds Maintenance Account in Inverkeithing, Fife.

Our Scottish Grounds Maintenance Account works in partnership with other Amey accounts to internally deliver grounds maintenance services. Our primary work stream involves the delivery of grounds maintenance services on behalf of our facility management colleagues in Secure Infrastructure.

This work involves all the planned grounds maintenance activities across 70 school sites nationally. These sites are spread over 6 local authority locations, including Borders, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Renfrewshire. In addition to planned maintenance, we also deliver winter and responsive works services. The accounts other main activity is to deliver internal vegetation management on behalf of NMCSW and NMCNE highways contracts.

Grounds Maintenance Operative plays an important part looking after all aspects of grounds maintenance. We cover all aspects of grounds maintenance, including amenity areas, natural grass sports pitches, synthetic sports surfaces, woodland, and planted areas. The wide scope of our service and number of tasks involved give this role a nice variety.

This is a full time role, the standard hours of work are 37.5 per week.

You will be responsible for :

• Horticulture activities such as. planting, pruning and seeding
• Erecting and dismantling equipment
• Setting out, making sports pitches including grass and tarmac surfaces
• Upkeep of artificial and synthetic pitches
• Tree care
• Undertaking vehicle, tractor, and cutting equipment checks
• Weather dependant, carrying out site gritting and snow clearing activities

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Full driving licence preferably with some trailer pulling experience
• General experience of grounds maintenance type duties
• Basic knowledge of gardening and horticulture

In additionto this, it would be desirable if you understand Health and Safety Legislation, COSHH and haveexperience in the use ofride on mower equipmentto help you hit the ground running, although this is not essential as we will provide you with the required development you need to bring you up to speed.

What we can offer you

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers
• Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity . We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.