Grounds Maintenance Operative

Housing Group; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension matching up to 8%

Healthcare cash plan

Extra holiday purchase option

Volunteering day

Discount scheme

Job summary

Your Housing Group is actively seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative based in Preston to support sites across the northwest. You will perform grounds maintenance, landscaping and environmental services with a focus on quality, safety and customer care.

Working Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm, you will join a small, supportive team, use a range of landscaping tools, and hold a full UK driving licence to cover multiple sites. A competitive package and benefits are included.

Qualifications

• Experience in grounds maintenance, landscaping and environmental services.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Hold a full valid UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Carry out grass cutting, shrub pruning, weed control and various landscaping tasks.
• Be trained and competent to use and maintain a range of powered landscaping tools and equipment.
• Demonstrate initiative in completing tasks to a high standard.
• Travel to Your Housing Group sites across the northwest.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Team player

Communication skills

Driving licence

Tools

Powered landscaping tools

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Grounds Maintenance Operative based in Preston to work on various Your Housing Group sites across the northwest. As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, working as part of a small and supportive team, you will use your previous experience to deliver grounds maintenance, landscaping and environmental services to Your Housing Group's customers, ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety and customer care at all times. We are looking for a passionate and experienced grounds maintenance operative who can carry out a high standard of work. What will my working week look like? Monday to Friday 8am to 4.30pm. Starting and finishing work in Preston. What will I be responsible for doing?,

• Carry out grass cutting, shrub pruning, weed control and various landscaping ad hoc works. Be a strong team player with solid communication skills.
• Be trained and competent to use and maintain a range of associated powered landscaping tool and equipment.
• Be able to demonstrate using your initiative.
• Hold a full valid UK driving licence.

In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford. As one of the North's sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by building over 100 new homes a year and continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties, tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our Repairs and Maintenance teams play a huge part in delivering these services to our customers. We're an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

In return we offer £27,976 per annum for a 40-hour week, and 23 days annual leave (holidays continue to increase with time served) plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas & New Year, plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance. On top of this, we'll provide you with a great benefits package, including

• a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%)
• an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments)
• an option to buy up to one weeks further holiday
• an annual volunteering day
• an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names