Landscaping Operatives

Clover HR; Worcester; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A landscape services company in Worcester is looking for operatives to perform soft and hard landscaping tasks. The role involves starting at 6am, with a salary of £29,750 per annum plus bonuses. Benefits include a pension scheme and all necessary training. Successful candidates may have opportunities for promotion to senior roles. A clean driving license and a CSCS card are required for this position.

Benefits

Company Pension

Company sick pay scheme

All uniform & PPE provided

Training provided

Qualifications

• Experience in soft and hard landscaping activities.
• Ability to maintain and manage grounds effectively.
• Possession of a clean driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Perform soft landscaping including ground preparation and planting.
• Execute hard landscaping tasks like installing fences and laying slabs.
• Maintain grounds, including mowing and applying herbicide.

Skills

Soft landscaping

Hard landscaping

Grounds maintenance

Driving licence

CSCS card

Job description

Overview

Our client is recruiting for four operatives to join their Worcester based organisation. Operatives meet at the Company’s yard in Worcester at around 6am to load materials before driving to sites to complete issued works. The majority of sites are within 2 hours of Worcester.

Responsibilities

• Soft landscaping: ground preparation, planting trees and shrubs, bark mulching, laying turf & sowing grass seed, following designs, hauling and spreading topsoil.
• Hard landscaping: installing minor hard works, placing rocks, laying slabs, installing sleepers, spreading aggregates, erecting timber & metal fencing & gates, installing water butts & washing lines.
• Grounds maintenance: litter collection, mowing, strimming, applying herbicide, pruning trees/shrubs/hedges, watering newly laid turf plants using portable sprinkler systems, hoses or watering cans.

Hours of work

Work pattern is Monday to Friday, usually with a start time of 6am in the yard in Worcester, working 9 hours per day on average (includes travelling time). Saturday work is occasionally available at an agreed flat rate of £150 per day paid in addition to salary via the payroll.

Uniform and PPE

It is a condition of employment that operatives wear a uniform at all times during working hours. The Company supplies full uniform and PPE at no expense to the operative.

Salary and promotion

Starting salary is £29,750 per annum plus annual bonus. For those who excel in the role there is opportunity for promotion within the Company to Senior Operative and Team Leader positions.

Benefits

• Company Pension
• Company sick pay scheme
• All uniform & PPE provided
• Training provided – internal and external courses

Annual leave

Holiday year runs from 1st January to 31st December. Annual holiday entitlement is 21 days plus eight bank holidays. Employees are required to reserve up to four days of their annual holiday entitlement to cover the shutdown period between Christmas Eve and New Year.

Professional registration

A Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card is required. If on commencement of employment you do not have a CSCS card you will be required to attend and pass the relevant touch screen test arranged by the Company and paid for by the Company.

Driving licence

A clean/nearly clean driving licence is required preferably with the ability to tow.