Grounds Maintenance Operative

Abri; Slough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative based in Slough. This role involves maintaining external communal areas and may include soft landscaping and tree work. Ideal candidates will possess practical horticultural knowledge, a full driver's license, and a proactive attitude. This is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated individual looking to join a dedicated team. Competitive benefits and support for professional development are offered.

Benefits

28 days holiday with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance of 5x annual salary

Generous parental and family leave

Health and wellbeing packages

Electric car scheme

Personal development opportunities

Colleague recognition scheme

Flexible working

Free eye tests

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Practical amenity horticultural knowledge and experience required.
• A full driver's licence is essential.
• PA1 and PA6AW qualifications are desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the upkeep of external communal areas including grass and shrubs.
• May engage in soft landscaping and minor tree work.
• Work within a team to ensure proper maintenance.

Skills

Practical amenity horticultural knowledge & experience

Crisis Management

Groundskeeping

Lawn Care

Management Experience

Facilities Management

Landscape Maintenance

Horticulture

Irrigation

Maintenance

Operations Management

Gardening

Supervising Experience

Education

Full driver's licence (with towing licence desirable)

PA1 and PA6AW qualifications

NPTC certification or equivalent

Job description

Grounds Maintenance team

Were responsible for the cyclical upkeep of the communal areas to our customers. This covers a large geographical area and our customers includes market rent shared ownership and independent living communities on many estates or the whole estate.

Were also responsible for the management of the trees and like to retain as 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

Were looking for a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our busy team. You’ll be based in Slough covering Windsor Ascot Bracknell and surrounding areas.

Were looking for a proactive great team player and someone with a good eye for detail who’s looking for a new challenge.

Working within a team you’ll be responsible for the upkeep of the external communal areas grass shrubs and may also be required to undertake soft landscaping / minor tree work.

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

If this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll need

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

Well 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 PPE you need to let you crack on with what you do best.

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!

Well review and interview suitable candidates as they apply. If we receive enough applications we’ll close the advert early so be sure to apply today so you don’t miss out!

INDABRI

Who we are

Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage more than 58,000 homes and various community assets serving around 113,000 customers across the South of England.

We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow, and do that look like in real terms.

We’re investing £689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient.

• We’re delivering 10,000 homes by 2030 ensuring affordable housing is built where it’s needed most.
• We’re investing in our communities to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone.

As we grow we’re establishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service. Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery with our operating areas split into three each with their local governance our colleagues are more visible accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.

More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at .

What you can expect

• Benefit 4
• Benefit 5
• Benefit 6

What you can expect

28 days holiday the opportunity to buy and sell holiday

• Generous pension scheme with contributions up to 10%
• Money off tons of high street and online retailers
• Life assurance of 5x your annual salary
• Generous parental and family leave
• Health and wellbeing packages
• Electric car scheme
• Personal development opportunities
• Colleague recognition scheme
• Flexible working
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to Work scheme

About you

We’ve all got different backgrounds strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. Its these shared values that bring us together as one team.

Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues always curious and look for better solutions achieve together by working in partnership with others own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.

We also expect our colleagues to share Abri’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and adults.

If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world you’re on to a winner and we’d love to hear from you!

Be yourself

We’re committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We welcome and respect the individual differences life experiences and knowledge that all our colleagues bring into the workplace and we value their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different everyone is unique.

Flexible working

We recognise the benefits flexible working can bring and we aim to support colleagues who need to work flexibly wherever we can provided the needs of both Abri and the colleague can be met. Please feel free to let us know about any flexibility you might need when applying for this role. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we do promise to consider it fully.

To our agency friends

We already have a number of carefully selected agency partners who know our business well and who support our in‑house recruitment team during exceptionally busy periods. We’re not looking to add to our preferred supplier list right now but if you’d like to be considered at a future date please don’t hesitate to register on our procurement portal.

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Key Skills

• Crisis Management
• Groundskeeping
• Lawn Care
• Management Experience
• Facilities Management
• Landscape Maintenance
• Horticulture
• Irrigation
• Maintenance
• Operations Management
• Gardening
• Supervising Experience

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1