Outdoor Groundskeeper: Community Green Space Specialist

Civic Recruitment Limited; Croydon; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Biweekly payments

Job summary

Civic Recruitment Limited in Croydon, Surrey, is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative for a 3-month contract based on-site. You will maintain external communal green spaces, ensuring high-quality gardening services and resident-facing professionalism.

The role includes driving responsibilities and working with a small team, with a biweekly pay schedule. Key tasks include lawn care, planting, pruning, weed control, and basic landscaping.

Qualifications

• Proven experience undertaking gardening and grounds maintenance duties.
• Experience of working effectively in small teams.

Responsibilities

• Carry out grounds maintenance tasks including weeding, planting, pruning, and watering communal beds.
• Cut and maintain lawns using a variety of machinery and apply fertiliser/pesticides.
• Execute small-scale landscaping operations and remove leaves, moss, snow, or apply salt/grit as directed.
• Respond to vandalism or graffiti, and report communal repairs, defects, or tenancy breaches.
• Act as a point of contact for residents, identify vulnerable customers, and provide friendly, professional customer service at all times.
• Adopt safe systems of work, use PPE, and occasionally supervise or coach apprentices and trainees.

Skills

Grounds maintenance

Teamwork

Health & safety

Driving

Job description

Civic Recruitment Limited in Croydon, Surrey, is seeking a Grounds Maintenance Operative for a 3-month contract based on-site. You will maintain external communal green spaces, ensuring high-quality gardening services and resident-facing professionalism.

The role includes driving responsibilities and working with a small team, with a biweekly pay schedule. Key tasks include lawn care, planting, pruning, weed control, and basic landscaping.