Grounds Maintenance Operative

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  • Ref:
    74118
  • Location:
    Corsham
  • Employment:
    Full time

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Job Title: Grounds Maintenance Operative 
Salary: £23,809 to £30,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time 
Hours: 37 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday- 7.30AM to 3.30PM (flexible working available)
Location: MoD Corsham, Building 406, Corsham, Wiltshire, England, SN13 9ET

Note: Starting salary is Real Living Wage, with a progression pathway to a maximum of £31K. Performance-based raises are given annually.  In addition you can expect to earn  £2,300 pa from overtime and on-call.

Based at MOD Corsham in Wiltshire, Mitie are looking for a full time Grounds Maintenance Operative to carry out general grounds maintenance tasks and reactive jobs.

You will work in a small, dedicated team, driven to deliver exceptional service every day to our clients. You will need to be reliable, adaptable, professional, & able to prioritise workloads.  Safe working and adherence to risk assessments is absolutely critical.

Standard working hours are 7:30 – 3:30 M-F, but flexible working is available.

Requirements

  • Proof of right to work in the UK (UK passport or residence permit)
  • Full UK driver's licence
  • MOD security clearance (This will be paid for by Mitie. Spent criminal convictions are not necessarily a barrier to obtaining security clearance.)
  • Willingness to work out-of-doors in all weather
  • A responsible mindset and safe approach to work

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Grass cutting, strimming, leaf blowing/collection
  • General gardening, including weeding, watering, and mulching
  • Winter road maintenance, including gritting and snow clearance
  • Sports pitch marking and maintenance
  • Hedge cutting
  • On call as required for winter road clearance
  • Day-to-day maintenance (cleaning, sharpening, tightening, inspecting) of hand and power tools, including mowers, strimmers, gritters, vehicles, and others
  • Special projects and reactive work involving hard landscaping, trees, etc.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

  • Mechanical knowledge and experience of maintaining grounds equipment
  • Basic horticultural knowledge, including plant ID and care
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision to a high standard

Bonus points if you have:

  • Chainsaw maintenance and operator's certificate
  • Experience of turf maintenance
  • Pesticide Spraying Qualifications: PA1 safe handling & application of pesticides, PA6 hand-held applicators on land, and/or PA2 Boom Sprayer.

Benefits:

  • Opportunities for paid-for additional training and qualifications
  • Flexible working hours
  • Paid overtime and on-call
  • Pension and investment opportunities
  • Life insurance
  • Subsidised staff restaurant & coffee outlets
  • Free parking on site
  • Free on-site gym membership
  • Free work wear & PPE

About the Company:

Mitie is the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company.  We create amazing work environments with our expertise, care, technology, insight, and focus on sustainability.  The Grounds team at MOD Corsham is critical to this vision, by creating a beautiful site where people and wildlife can safely thrive.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 
 

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