Grounds Maintenance Operative - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Amey

Amey

Verified Company

Glasgow, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Your New Role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a
Permanent Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our
SGM Account
in
Glasgow.
Our
Scottish Grounds Maintenance Account works in partnership with other Amey accounts to internally deliver grounds maintenance services.

Our primary work stream involves the delivery of grounds maintenance services on behalf of our facility management colleagues in Secure Infrastructure.

This work involves all the planned grounds maintenance activities across 70 school sites nationally. These sites are spread over 6 local authority locations, including Borders, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Renfrewshire. In addition to planned maintenance, we also deliver winter and responsive works services. The accounts other main activity is to deliver internal vegetation management on behalf of NMCSW and NMCNE highways contracts.

Grounds Maintenance Operative plays an important part to provide general maintenance, such as grass cutting, hedge trimming, clearing leaves, verges, and litter services in the
Glasgow area.

The
salary for this role is competitive and can be negotiated.

The standard hours of work are 37.5 per week.

You will be responsible for:

Horticulture activities such as. planting, pruning and seeding
Erecting and dismantling equipment
Setting out, making sports pitches including grass and tarmac surfaces
Upkeep of artificial and synthetic pitches
Tree care
Undertaking vehicle, tractor, and cutting equipment checks
Weather dependant, carrying out site gritting and snow clearing activities

We want to hear from you if you have:

Full driving licence preferably with some trailer pulling experience
General experience of grounds maintenance type duties
Basic knowledge of gardening and horticulture

In
addition to this, it would be desirable if you have experience in the use of
ride on mower equipment to help you hit the ground running, although this is not essential as we will provide you with the required development you need to bring you up to speed.

What we can offer you
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Career Development

Exceptional development and progression plan

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Pension *

Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to

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Holidays*:

Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays

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Choices*:

Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership

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Save with Amey

Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers

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Social Value*:

You'll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

Job Reference:
AM33920