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Grounds Maintenance Operative Weymouth

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GBP 22,000 - 30,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

A leading company in grounds maintenance seeks an Operative in Weymouth. The role involves managing daily operations, ensuring compliance with health and safety, and supporting team efficiency. Candidates should have horticultural qualifications and possess strong leadership and communication skills.

Benefits

Employee health cash plan
Employee discount portal
Company sick pay
Career progression
Training and development

Qualifications

  • Desirable to hold a horticultural qualification with experience in grounds maintenance.
  • Recognised practical qualifications like chainsaw or pesticide training preferred.
  • A CSCS card is beneficial.

Responsibilities

  • Liaise with line manager for team resources and staffing requirements.
  • Monitor and approve operative holidays, and manage workload priorities.
  • Ensure compliance with Health and Safety regulations.

Skills

Initiative
Communication
Leadership

Education

Horticultural qualification or experience
CSCS card
Chainsaw/Pesticide qualification

Job description

Job DescriptionJob description

Operative - Weymouth

As an operative you will report into the Contract Supervisor. The senior team leader will have the organisation skills required to manage the day-to-day operation of the contract, working with the Contract Supervisor to ensure the delivery of the contract.

Key responsibilities of the role are to:

  • Liaise with your line manager to ensure the teams have the resources required to fulfil their tasks.
  • Liaise with the line manager on staffing requirements by producing and using reports and plans.
  • Be involved with the interviewing and recruitment of new employees, following the company's recruitment and onboarding procedure, ensuring the compliance of the contract within the company.
  • Monitor and approve operative holidays.
  • Produce scheduled and ad hoc work programmes, and assist with service delivery to ensure work programme tick sheets are administratively maintained.
  • Prioritise the workload of the team.
  • Monitor the efficiency and organise the maintenance of vehicles and machinery.
  • Issue rectification and improvement notices to the appropriate teams, ensuring they are fully conversant with the conditions of the notice.


Other responsibilities:

  • Communicate with customers and with your line manager on work related issues.
  • Communicate with your line manager on employee absences.
  • Communicate with suppliers on a regular basis.
  • Monitor work in line with inspection programmes and the quality assurance method statement.
  • Make recommendations on improvements to services.
  • Ensure the completion of workforce timesheets.
  • Provide quotations for services.
  • Support the maintenance of Environmental Standards and compliance with the BS EN ISO 14001:1996 standard at the contract.
  • Undertake any duties as may reasonably be required.


Health and Safety

  • To act in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and the Glendale Health and Safety Policy at all times
  • To carry out instructions from your Line Manager in accordance with Glendale’s Health and Safety Policy, Glendale’s Codes of Practice, Glendale’s Quality Management Systems and the Employee Handbook.
  • To be knowledgeable of Health and safety regulations within your workplace and the activities that you are carrying out.
  • Ensure you have completed the necessary induction and health and safety modules prior to commencement of any works.
  • You must be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and that of others, in your working environment,
  • To promote safe working practices at all times and to ensure that all equipment is safe to use.
  • To ensure that you are knowledgeable of the suitability of all machinery/equipment used in accordance with the task you are doing and it is safe to use.
  • To ensure the correct use of all machinery/equipment in accordance with its handbook.
  • To ensure that any machinery/equipment that does not operate correctly is reported immediately to your Line Manager and a defect tag is filled out and attached.
  • To ensure that any check/maintenance sheets are completed and passed to your Line Manager.
  • To ensure that all machinery/equipment is secured at all times (when not in use).


Qualifications

It is desirable to hold the following qualifications:

  • a horticultural qualification and or demonstrable experience of a horticultural or grounds maintenance environment
  • a recognised practical qualifications such as in chainsaw/ pesticide
  • a CSCS card.


Personal Characteristics

  • A high level of initiative and self motivation.
  • Strong relationship building skills coupled with excellent communication skills.
  • A self motivated individual.
  • Flexible approach to duties.
  • Customer/client care focus.
  • Leadership and communication skills


Benefits offered by Glendale:

  • Employee health cash plan
  • Employee discount portal - discounts on travel booking, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending
  • Company sick pay
  • Career progression
  • Training and development
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