Grounds Maintenance Operator

1 week ago


Stockport, United Kingdom United Utilities Full time

You'll deliver a variety of site maintenance activities including grounds maintenance, vegetation management, soft landscaping and other minor building maintenance in line with the maintenance plan for each site. Ensuring that the site standards are upheld on our Water Sites on all non-asset areas for the site to the quality, performance and safety standards of the company. This will involve carrying out physically demanding tasks in an outdoor environment

**Job Accountabilities**:
You'll be accountable for undertaking grounds maintenance activities on a variety of sites to a schedule provided and recording the work completed on a corporate system. You'll also be accountable for:

- Operating and performing daily checks on a variety of powered and non-powered plant, tools and equipment including vehicles, trailers, ride on mowers and small hand held tools
- Carrying out minor remedial work on non-assets (e.g. paving flags), appropriate to the level of competence and training.
- Organising day to day activities with the Team Leader ensuring effective utilisation of time, and ensuring that levels of material stock are maintained.
- Contributing towards the training of new starters from the Youth Employment Programme and employment agencies.
- Adhering to Health and Safety requirements and to complying with regulations and internal company policy.
- Identifying any site standards improvements and winter work during the scheduled visits.
- Working closely with the process and network teams while on their sites.
- Application and handling of pesticides

**Knowledge and Skills**:
In order to succeed in this role you'll need to be able to demonstrate practical experience of a variety of maintenance activities including grounds maintenance, vegetation management, soft landscaping and building maintenance in an outdoor environment. You'll also be able to demonstrate practical experience in using handheld machinery such as pedestrian mowers, strimmers, blowers, pole saws and hedge cutters and ride-on mowers. You'll also need:

- Full UK driving license with B+E trailer towing.
- Ability to plan activities on a variety of sites to a schedule provided.
- Ability to communicate with a range of stakeholders.
- Ability to risk assess dynamically.
- Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
- It would be advantageous if you held formal Grounds Maintenance certification such as Lantra, City & Guilds, NPTC etc.

**Additional Information**:

- Main interaction will be with the Grounds Maintenance Team Leader and Grounds Maintenance Co-ordinator who will provide the daily plans and deal with any issues arising.

**We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.**

**Closing Date**:08/06/23



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