Grounds Maintenance Operative

Vivid Housing; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Performance bonus

Uniform and PPE

Pension 6% with 7-10% match

Life assurance 3x salary

Private medical insurance

Medicash

Enhanced parental leave

Counselling & legal support

Electric car scheme

Training & mentoring

Job summary

Vivid Housing in Portsmouth is seeking a dedicated Grounds Maintenance Operative to keep communal outdoor areas safe, clean and attractive for residents. The role is full-time, 39 hours per week, based at the Portsmouth office with travel across Portsmouth and the surrounding South Hampshire area.

You will spend most time outdoors, with visits to the office for training and meetings. You will need good communication, be able to work independently and as part of a team, and operate a range of

Qualifications

• Experience in grounds maintenance (gras/hedge cutting, weed control) desirable.

Responsibilities

• Routine grounds maintenance tasks, such as grass/hedge cutting, trimming, and weeding.
• Hard area maintenance and low-level tree work as well as soft landscaping.
• Shrub maintenance.
• Ensuring communal areas are free from litter and debris.
• Perform regular inspections to identify and address potential safety hazards.
• Assist with seasonal tasks, such as leaf removal.
• Operating grounds maintenance equipment and tools.
• Respond promptly to maintenance requests from residents.

Job description

We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!
Love working in the great outdoors? We're seeking a dedicated and hardworking Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our customer-focused team. In this role, you'll be responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of communal outdoor areas, ensuring they remain safe, clean and visually appealing for our customers.

Contractually based out of our Portsmouth office, you'll be covering Portsmouth and the surrounding South Hampshire area as part of a supportive and professional team. This is a full-time, permanent role, working 39 hours per week. You'll spend most of your time out in our communities, however will also be required to visit our Portsmouth office for training and ad hoc meetings.

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• Annual discretionary company performance-related bonus, rewarding our collective success
• Uniform and PPE provided
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s the facts about the role:
As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you'll carry out a high standard of grounds work to make our communal grounds areas attractive for customers. You’ll have good communication skills and the ability to interact with residents and colleagues in a friendly and professional manner with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

You’ll have good knowledge and experience in this field with skills to operate a variety of equipment, machines and materials that you’ll use on a daily basis.

Duties will include:

• Routine grounds maintenance tasks, such as grass/hedge cutting, trimming, and weeding
• Hard area maintenance and low-level tree work as well as soft landscaping
• Shrub maintenance
• Ensuring communal areas are free from litter and debris.
• Perform regular inspections to identify and address any potential safety hazards
• Assist with seasonal tasks, such as leaf removal
• Operating grounds maintenance equipment and tools
• Respond promptly to maintenance requests and from residents

Offers are subject to a satisfactory DBS and a full, clean current driving licence (held for at least 1 year).
While you'll usually work alongside a Grounds Maintenance Team Leader who will drive the company van, there may be occasions where you'll need to drive the van so a full, clean current driving licence is required.

We do our best to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible. However, due to the nature of this position, the job holder must be capable of:

• Working at heights
• Manual handling and lifting heavy and bulky items
• A high degree of mobility, which will include walking/lifting/loading and unloading vehicles

Interviews are due to be held 28 October (subject to change).