Job Title: Facilities Maintenance Labourer (Outdoor Grounds)
Location: Sittingbourne, Kent
Days: Monday to Friday, full-time
hours: 07.30am - 16.30pm
pay :12.71ph (47.5hr week )
About the Role
We are looking for a reliable and motivated Facilities Maintenance Labourer to join our team. You ll work across approximately 9.5 acres of outdoor grounds, supporting the upkeep and maintenance of the site . The role includes working with machinery and equipment, dealing with external environment tasks, and operating in all weather conditions.
Key Responsibilities
- General site repairs & maintenance (building fabric, hard surfaces, grounds infrastructure)
- Landscaping & gardening support (beds, edges, planting, tidying)
- Drainage & plumbing assistance (clearing gullies, verifying drainage flows)
- Vacuum tankering, jet-washing, gulley-sucking operations
- Road sweeping & litter picking throughout the site, including access roads and service areas
- Industrial & confined space cleaning work (as required)
- Emergency clean-ups & site housekeeping (clearance after weather events, spillages, debris removal)
- Maintaining the moat and water-edge areas, ensuring cleanliness and safe condition
- Handling recycling materials: segregation, transport, stacking as needed
- Helping to build toward supervising outside grounds labourers: supporting the team, taking instruction, beginning to coordinate daily tasks
Requirements
- Valid UK driver s licence (essential)
- Experience in maintenance or a related field (grounds, outdoor site work, machinery operations etc)
- Physically able to work outdoors in all weather conditions
- Comfortable working with machinery and equipment (jet-washers, vacuum tankers, sweepers) or willing to learn
- Strong team player with a positive attitude and ambition to progress into a supervisory role
- Good communication skills, able to report issues, work safely and follow procedures
- Willingness to undergo training as required and to take on expanding responsibilities
What We Offer
- Monday Friday schedule, enabling a good work-life balance
- Hands-on outdoor role across a large site (9.5 acres) with variety of tasks
- Training and career progression: the role offers a path into supervision of outside grounds labourers
- Opportunity to work at an established industrial site ( with diverse duties
- Supportive working environment and development of new skills in machinery operations, outdoor maintenance and site management