Grounds Maintenance Operative

Housing Quality Network; Slough; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Generous pension

Life assurance schemes

Health and wellbeing packages

Job summary

Housing Quality Network is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our team covering the South East, including Windsor, Ascot, Bracknell, and Slough. This role requires a proactive team player with practical horticultural knowledge.

Your responsibilities will include the upkeep of external communal areas, grass, shrubs, and hedges, as well as undertaking soft landscaping. We provide a uniform, vehicle, and all necessary PPE from day one, plus numerous benefits including 28 days holiday

Qualifications

• Practical amenity horticultural knowledge and experience required.
• Full driver's license is essential, towing license desirable.
• PA1 and PA6AW qualifications are desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain external communal areas including grass, shrubs, and hedges.
• Plan your workload within a fortnightly round.
• Undertake soft landscaping and minor tree work as needed.

Skills

Amenity horticultural knowledge

Team player

Attention to detail

Driver's licence

Education

PA1 and PA6AW qualifications

NPTC certification or equivalent

Job description

We’reresponsible for the cyclical upkeep of the communal areas to our customers. This covers a large geographicalareaand our customers includes market rent, shared ownership and independent living communities on many estates or the whole estate. We also provide a reactionary service where wehave todeal with hazards which can be anything from dumped items to clearing snow on our independent living blocks.

We’realso responsible for the management of the trees and like toretainas many as possible or replant if any are removed. We believe that the trees play a big part in our communities by providing shade in the summer and promote a healthy wellbeing as well as offsetting our carbon footprint.

Your new role

We have an exciting opportunity for Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our teamcovering the South East includingWindsor, Ascot, Bracknell and Slough. You will have the flexibility to plan your workload within a fortnightly round.

We’relooking for a proactive,great teamplayer and someone with a good eye for detailwho’slooking for a new challenge.

Working within a team,you’llbe responsible forthe upkeep of the external communal areas, grass,shrubsand hedges. You may alsobe requiredto undertake soft landscaping/minor tree work.

This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic,self-motivatedand well-driven individual looking to contribute to a dynamic and diverse team.We’realways looking to improve ourselves and empower the lives of residents and communities they live in.

If this is the opportunityyou’vebeen looking for,we’dlove to hear from you!

Whatyou’llneed:

• Practical amenity horticultural knowledge & experience
• PA1 and PA6AW qualifications (desirable, but not essential)
• NPTC certification or equivalent (desirable, but not essential)
• A full driver’s licence (with towing licence desirable)

We’ll provide you with your uniform, a van fitted with a van vault, racking and inverter, a fuel card, company tablet & mobile as well as the PPEyou need to let you crack on with what you do best.

Not only this, you’ll be entitled to all the usual benefits from day one including

• 28 days holiday a year
• generous pension
• life assurance schemes
• access to health and wellbeing packages

We hold monthly talks where all Trades can attend to highlight what’s going on within Abri and provide information on processes. If you want the opportunity to be part of a committed team who take as much pride in their work as you do and love putting a smile back on customers’ faces, get in touch with us today!