Grounds Maintenance Operative

**Salary**:from £9.50 per hour (negotiable depending on experience)
**Location**: Andover
**Contract Type**:Permanent
**Contracted Hours**:45 hours per week
**Working Pattern**:Monday to Friday
**Holiday entitlement**: 20 days plus Bank Holidays

**Are you looking for a career change? Do you enjoy working outside? Is the environment as important to you as it is to us?**
**Have you recently left college and are looking for something a bit different from the norm to kick start your future career?**

**If you answered YES to any of these questions, we want to hear from YOU**

**At Tivoli we offer our staff fantastic benefits such as**:

- Employee referral scheme - up to **£500** for both of you after 6 months continuous service
- Access to employee assistance programmes
- Contribution-based pension
- Your Birthday off

**Tell me more**

As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you’ll be part of a team responsible for carrying out grounds maintenance activities and assisting operations on site, ensuring that all work is carried out to the highest requirement and that a quality service is provided. You'll also ensure that all Health & Safety regulations are adhered to, and equipment is kept in a safe working condition.

**Role of a Grounds Maintenance Operative includes**:

- Grass cutting
- Litter picking
- Hedge cutting
- Shrub maintenance
- Leaf clearing
- Pathway gritting and minor snow clearance
- Communication with clients and customers
- Experience using commercial ped mowers, small machinery, hedge cutters, strimmers and blowers
- Understand and ensure compliance with standards set out in the Company quality system e.g., point of work and site-specific risk assessments
- Adhere to company standards such as risk assessments and COSHH
- Timely and accurate reporting of near misses, accidents, and incidents
- Responsibility for keeping machinery and equipment in good working condition and expediting rectification of faults etc as per Company process, as well as processing logs in relation to mileage and fuel
- Undertake all grounds maintenance works to specification achieving the highest standards at all times

**About you**
- This is an excellent opportunity for someone with existing Grounds Maintenance experience or for someone looking for a new career challenge
- You will be a great team player, but also happy to work on your own initiative
- We’re looking for someone with a great work ethic, working with integrity and pride (in some stunning settings) at all times

**Skills we’re looking for in you**:

- Must be willing to undertake MOD/background security clearance checks where applicable (Tivoli will meet these costs)
- Familiar and comfortable with working in a physically demanding role in sometimes severe weather conditions
- Good knowledge of grounds maintenance activities is desirable - but not essential initially
- Good working knowledge of Health & Safety
- Valid driving licence is essential due to the need to get to your place of work

**About Tivoli**

Tivoli is the UK’s leading independent grounds maintenance specialist with operations right across the country. We provide generalist and specialist grounds maintenance services to various clients across different sectors including the MOD, local authorities, housing associations and corporate clients.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £9.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Referral programme
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Day shift

Application question(s):

- Have you applied to work at Tivoli before?
- Have you ever worked for Tivoli?
- Do you have any criminal convictions that will prohibit you to take this position?

**Experience**:

- practical Grounds Maintenance: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- PA1 & PA6 Spraying Licence (preferred)
- B&E Trailer Licence (preferred)
- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: On the road