Grounds Maintenance Operative

Your New Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our SGM Account in Dumfries on a 6-month fixed-term basis.

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 looking after all aspects of grounds maintenance on 8 of our school sites in D&G. We cover all aspects of grounds maintenance, including amenity areas, natural grass sports pitches, synthetic sports surfaces, woodland, and planted areas. The wide scope of our service and number of tasks involved give this role a nice variety.

This is a full time role, 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 understand Health and Safety Legislation, COSHH and 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
Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
Pension - Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
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
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 Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity . We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

Please contact our recruitment team at (url removed) to discuss any access needs and reasonable adjustments that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today - We are excited to hear from you!

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