Grounds Maintenance Operative – Dynamic Outdoor Role

Housing Quality Network; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Pension plan

Life assurance

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Housing Quality Network is seeking three Grounds Maintenance Operatives to join our Eastleigh-based team. You'll be responsible for maintaining external communal areas, mowing lawns, and caring for shrubs and hedges across sites in Eastleigh and surrounding areas.

Working in a small team, you’ll plan your fortnightly rounds, carry out soft landscaping and minor tree work when required, and ensure safe, tidy estates. We provide training, uniform, vehicle, and ongoing benefits from day one.

Qualifications

• 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 (towing licence desirable).

Responsibilities

• Upkeep of external communal areas: grass, shrubs and hedges.
• Soft landscaping or minor tree work as required.
• Cover sites across Eastleigh, Hampshire and surrounding areas.
• Plan workload within a fortnightly round and work within a team.

Skills

Amenity horticulture

PA1

PA6AW

NPTC

Full driving licence

Job description

Housing Quality Network is seeking three Grounds Maintenance Operatives to join our Eastleigh-based team. You'll be responsible for maintaining external communal areas, mowing lawns, and caring for shrubs and hedges across sites in Eastleigh and surrounding areas.

Working in a small team, you’ll plan your fortnightly rounds, carry out soft landscaping and minor tree work when required, and ensure safe, tidy estates. We provide training, uniform, vehicle, and ongoing benefits from day one.