Grounds Maintenance Operative (Permanent) - Worcester Worcester, England
Job description
Calling all Grounds Maintenance Operatives in Worcester!
Platform Property Care has a permanent opportunity for an Operative to join our Grounds Maintenance Team based at our depot in Worcester and covering our Estates and communities. This is an ideal role for someone who loves working outdoors and creating great looking environments for our customers.
What could you be doing?
You will be responsible for looking after the green areas in and around our estates. Your duties will include tractor and pedestrian grass maintenance, brush cutting/ strimming, hedge cutting, shrub pruning, planting, weeding, and litter picking.
Some things we need from you:
- You’ll be motivated and passionate about making a difference to our external landscape
- You’ll have a full UK driving licence – this is essential as it is a mobile role
- You will really enjoy working outdoors in all weather conditions
- You’ll have a good Health & Safety knowledge
- And have some relevant gardening/horticultural skills, experience or qualifications
The depot base location for this role is Blackpole, Worcester.
The working pattern for this permanent role is a permanent annualised contract:
Summer (March – November) 42.5 hours a week Monday to Friday
Winter (December – February) 32.5 hours a week Monday to Friday
Check out some of our core benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with opportunity to buy and sell leave
- Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
- Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
- Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
- Pension scheme with minimum employee contributions of up to 3% and Platform will contribute up to 8% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
- Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers
Part of Platform Housing Group, Platform Property Care is a well-established property maintenance business. Working with us is more than just a job. We value the contribution that our colleagues make to our business; our vision is clear – we are growing fast and we aim to achieve our plan through an engaged and highly skilled team.
If this sounds like the place for you then we’d love to hear from you! To find out more about this role, please contact .
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time - all speculative CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
