Grounds Maintenance Operative

Amey Ltd; Inverkeithing; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Grounds Maintenance Operative to join their Scottish team in Inverkeithing. This role involves providing essential maintenance services across multiple school sites, ensuring that grounds are kept in pristine condition. Responsibilities include horticultural tasks, equipment management, and seasonal maintenance activities. The company offers a supportive environment with career development opportunities, a competitive benefits package, and a commitment to inclusion and diversity. If you have a passion for outdoor work and a desire to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Career Development

Generous Pension scheme

Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Flexible benefits scheme

Discounts from leading retailers

Community Involvement Days

Qualifications

• Experience in horticulture and grounds maintenance.
• Ability to operate machinery and perform maintenance tasks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct horticulture activities like planting and pruning.
• Maintain sports pitches and carry out site gritting.

Skills

Horticulture activities

Grounds maintenance experience

Basic gardening knowledge

Driving licence

Ride on mower experience

Job description

Your New Role

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 to provide general maintenance, such as grass cutting, hedge trimming, clearing leaves, verges, and litter services in the Inverkeithing area.

The standard hours of work are 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday.

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 addition to this, it would be desirable if you have experience in the use of ride on mower equipment to 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 offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life's ups and downs. It's the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension - Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• 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.

Please contact our recruitment team at (url removed) to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today - We are excited to hear from you!