Ground Maintenance Operative 

Location: Newent, Gloucestershire 

Salary: £24,499.27 per annum  

Permanent  

Full time   

Closing date: 27th September 2024 

Join our ground’s maintenance team and make a real difference!  

Everyone should have a warm, safe, affordable home.  

As part of our ground’s maintenance team, you’ll help us ensure that our communities are safe and well looked after. You’ll work with the team to make sure the green spaces in our communities are well maintained, litter free and places that families are proud to call home.  

What you’ll bring to our team  

You’ll love working outdoors and take pride in a job well done. You’ll be enthusiastic, willing to learn, and open to trying new approaches. You’ll spend your days mowing, trimming and maintaining our community spaces, working with your team to improve the service by sharing new ideas and suggestions.  

What we’re looking for  

• Experience of working in a ground’s maintenance role including mowing, weed control, hedge trimming, and tree management.  

• Experience of landscaping and path and hard standing maintenance.  

Qualifications  

• BTECH or HND in Horticulture (though full training can be provided)  

• Full UK driving licence.  

We recognise that no candidate will meet every desired requirement, so if your experience looks a little different but you think you can bring your great skills and can-do attitude to the role, we’d love to hear from you.  

Please note: This role is not open to agencies. Please do not call or email. Thank you.  

Need some additional support?  

We are committed to creating an equal, diverse, and inclusive workplace that creates a great working environment and a great experience for our customers. If you need any additional help or support through the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team.  

Not the role for you?  

If you would like to work with us, but can’t see a role advertised which suits your skills and career ambition, why not send us your CV?

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if it is deemed that we have received enough suitable applications.