Grounds maintenance Operative

  • Ref:
    89229
  • Location:
    Corsham
  • Employment:
    Full time
  • Role Classification:
    3

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Ashish Singh

Ashish.Singh@mitie.com

+44 116 261 5017

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Grounds Maintenance Operative

Location: MoD Corsham, Wiltshire
Contract: Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

 

Join Mitie at the prestigious MOD Corsham site and help create an exceptional environment where people and wildlife can thrive. We're looking for a motivated Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our dedicated team—someone who takes pride in delivering high-quality work, cares about safety, and enjoys working outdoors in all seasons.

 

Why This Role?

  • Supportive team environment on a secure, well-maintained site
  • Clear progression pathway with annual performance-based pay increases
  • Flexible working available (core hours 7:30–3:30, Monday to Friday)
  • Opportunities to gain fully funded training and professional qualifications

 

Primary Responsibilities

  • Grass cutting, strimming, leaf blowing and collection and Tree Maintenance.
  • General gardening: weeding, watering, mulching, Mowing grasses
  • Winter road maintenance: gritting and snow clearance
  • Sports pitch marking and maintenance
  • Hedge cutting and tree-related work
  • Routine maintenance of grounds equipment (mowers, strimmers, vehicles, gritters, etc.)
  • Hard landscaping and reactive grounds tasks
  • Participation in the winter on‑call rota

 

Essential Requirements

  • Proof of right to work in the UK
  • Full UK driving licence
  • Willingness to work outdoors year-round
  • A responsible, safety-conscious mindset
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Mechanical knowledge of grounds equipment
  • Horticultural knowledge, including plant identification
  • Minimum 3 years' experience in grounds maintenance or a similar role
  • Relevant horticulture qualification (NVQ or RHS)
  • Cross cutting – chainsaw maintenance, Felling and operator certificates
  • Experience in turf maintenance

Desirable:

  • Any experience Arboriculture – or Tree surgeon - Desirable and Pesticide qualifications: PA1, PA6 (PA2 an advantage).
  • Basic IT and administrative skills

Security Clearance:
MOD security clearance is required and will be funded by Mitie. Spent convictions are not automatically a barrier to clearance.

 

Benefits

  • Fully funded training and professional development
  • Flexible working options
  • Paid overtime and on‑call opportunities
  • Pension and investment schemes
  • Life insurance
  • Subsidised onsite restaurant and coffee outlets
  • Free onsite parking
  • Free onsite gym membership
  • Free workwear and PPE
  • MiDeals discounts across 850+ retailers
  • Virtual GP access and financial wellbeing support
  • Customisable benefits via the Choices platform
  • Recognition through the Mitie Stars awards programme

 

 

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 Ashish Singh at Ashish.Singh@mitie.com.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 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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MoD Corsham (Building 406)
MoD Corsham, Building 406, Corsham, Wiltshire, England, SN13 9ET
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