Cgc -vegetation Management Operative

Job Title: Vegetation Management Operative

Location: Across the UK

**Salary**: Highly competitive with company benefits

As a valued member of the Chevron Green Services team, you can expect the benefits that come with being an employer of choice:
**Benefits**:

- 20 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Regular work with guaranteed 40 hrs per week
- Weekly pay
- Company pension
- PPE and/or uniform provided free
- Career development
- Access to our Internal Academy
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Fill Your Boots rewards - saving an average of £400 per year
- Paternity leave - paid at full salary for 2 weeks
- Maternity leave - paid at full salary for 3 months and /2 salary for a further 3 months

You will be required to work 40 hours per week consisting of day or night work with occasional weekend work included.

Hourly rate is dependent on qualifications and experience and will be discussed at interview.

About Chevron Green Services

Chevron Green Services provides environmental consultancy, arboriculture services and commercial vegetation management across the UK.

Keeping the natural world and sustainability at the heart of everything we do. We work with our clients to help them plan for the long-term life cycle of their projects. Forefront of our approach is achieving inclusion and integration into the wider environment, providing biodiverse habitats for generations to come.

With over 20 years experience, we're industry experts, constantly innovating to ensure we provide the most efficient and safest service available.

Our clients come from both the public and private sectors and include highways, rail, utilities, local authorities, and construction. We offer a range of services including grass cutting, arboriculture, tree works, vegetation clearance, drainage, fencing and landscaping.

About the role of Vegetation Management Operative

Chevron Green Services (CGS) is a growing business, and we look to recruit excellent staff at all levels. In return we offer a highly rewarding career in a friendly and professional team. As a CGS Vegetation Management Operative you will be supported to achieve your potential and focus on the main responsibilities of your role. Our teams thrive on collaboration, working with respect, honesty, and integrity.

This role is exciting and will be varied throughout the year, depending on the season.

We'd love for you to be a part of our team.

Responsibilities include:

- Cyclical grass cutting between March and October
- Grass cutting via the use of tractors with front and side arm flails, remote control bank mowers, ride on mowers, specialist machinery such as reforms and barrier mowers, and of course brush cutters
- Weed control
- Tree and hedge work, whether that be hazardous tree removal, sign and CCTV clearance and hedgerow maintenance or reduction outside of bird nesting season
- Path clearance
- Planting schemes including complete de-vegetation of ditches or other infrastructures
- Complete de vegetation for new structures and roads
- Jet washing
- Other ad-hoc tasks that helps our clients.

Vegetation Management Operatives will work in a team under the guidance of a working supervisor to help deliver all contractual obligations to an exceptional standard.

What good looks like for a Vegetation Management Operative
- You do NOT need to be experienced in highways or vegetation management works, although it would be beneficial
- We would like you to have a basic understanding of health & safety
- Physically able and the ability to pass or already hold a Safety Critical Medical
- Full UK driving license with less than 6 points
- Enthusiastic 'can-do' attitude
- CSCS
- ROLO
- Lantra Tractor Driving
- Lantra Arm Mounted Cutting Equipment / Flail
- Lantra Brush Cutter / Strimmer
- NPTC Pesticides PA1 & PA6A
- NPTC Chainsaw CS30, CS31a, CS31b, CS38 & CS39
- NPTC Chainsaw from a MEWP CS47
- NPTC Brushwood Chippers
- IPAF - MEWPS

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AT CHEVRON GREEN SERVICES

We believe the skills, capabilities and talents of our people are the key to our success. We benefit enormously from the diversity and variety of our workforce and are fully committed to maintaining and encouraging this diversity.

The richer the mix of people, skills, and cultures; the greater the range of inputs, viewpoints, and experiences. Because of this, CGS is fully committed to being an equal opportunities employer, defined by its diversity and opposition to all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.

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