Gardener / Gritter

**Role: GRITTING TECHNICIAN / Grounds Maintenance Operative**

**Contract Type**: Fix Term

**Hours**: 40 Hours Per week

**Shift Pattern** : Night Shift

**Rate of Pay**: £20.00 Per Hour

In your role as a Winter Services Operative, your main duties will include gritting, and snow clearance, as required on nights will need to work weekends. You will also provide management with relevant information and reporting as required, including reporting any site issues. You may be required to drive company vehicles, ensuring they are kept in full tact and any maintenance issues are reported in a prompt manner. You will provide swift solutions for any requests, complaints or queries - reporting them to the correct department or escalating if need be.

**Main Roles**

In your role as a Gritting Technician, your main duties will include:

- Driving a company vehicle with a gritting hopper and filling the vehicle with rock salt to distribute.
- You will report to a Contract Manager, attending customer sites during evenings to grit the premises and minimise the chance of accidents.
- The rounds will change depending on weather conditions, and the number of sites you visit will vary as a result.

**What you'll get in return**:

- Holiday entitlement
- Pension contributions
- Life Insurance cover
- Discount through MiDeals to over 850 high street retailers
- Cycle to work, options to buy extra holiday
- Save as you earn scheme
- Share incentive plan
- Recognition and well being incentives such as Mitie Stars and many other benefits.

**Qualifications**:
A full drivers license is required to drive the company van, and you will need suitable space to keep the works van at home premises.
- No previous experience is required as full training will be provided.
- You will need to able to work flexible hours on a call out basis, including working nights at very short notice (e.g. called the same day to work that evening).
- Due to the nature of the work, you must be prepared to work over the Christmas period.

Additional Information

**Note**

This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged for this position and the range of duties undertaken. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder throughout the period of employment. The job description may be varied from time to time by the Company to reflect changes in the post holder's role and/or the needs of the business.

Resourcing Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.