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Role: Grounds Maintenance Operative
Location: NRS (Magnox) Harwell
Reporting To: Technical & Maintenance Manager
Job Overview
As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you will maintain the grounds to a high standard, ensuring customer satisfaction through efficient service and adherence to Health & Safety procedures. Your role includes grass cutting, hedge trimming, leaf clearance, litter picking, and more, while operating machinery safely and effectively.
Key Responsibilities
The role involves performing grounds maintenance tasks such as grass cutting, hedge trimming, gritting, and litter picking, ensuring cleanliness and tidiness after completing each task. The candidate will address customer requests and queries promptly, operate vehicles and machinery in adherence to Health & Safety guidelines, and report any site issues to the Technical & Maintenance Manager. They will also ensure the grounds maintenance yard is kept clean and safe, drive company vehicles, and report maintenance issues as required. Additionally, the role includes assisting with other tasks as directed by the Mitie Management team.
Person Specification
The ideal candidate will have a passion for horticulture and gardening, along with strong communication and customer service skills. They should be able to work independently or as part of a team, with a solid understanding of Health & Safety practices and safe working methods. Flexibility to perform tasks beyond their main trade is essential. A UK driving license and experience in grounds maintenance are required, along with familiarity with ride-on mowers, tractors, and gritting. A PA1 & PA6 spraying license is desirable, as well as a chainsaw license and knowledge of PPMs. A basic understanding of mobile technology for work recording is also important, and the candidate must be willing to undergo BPSS security clearance.
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 Stuti Singh at stuti.singh@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 68,000 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.
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