Grounds Maintenance Operative

Application Close Date: 04/07/2021 (Closed)

Location: Wiltshire/M4 area

This is an outstanding career opportunity with a market leader providing green services to private and public sector businesses.

Glendale currently has vacancies for permanent positions for teams based from home in the Wiltshire / M4 corridor.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Supervisor  you will undertake grounds maintenance services for our clients including grass cutting, hedge cutting and other estate maintenance tasks. This is a fixed term role until October 2021. There are a wide variety of tasks including grass cutting with both pedestrian and ride on equipment, herbicide application, habitat management and potential woodland work. 

The role is remote based from home or collection locally.

The Person

The role also requires meeting and liaising with customers on a daily basis so good organisational and personal skills are required. The position requires genuine commitment and self-motivation and offers an exciting challenge and opportunity.

Candidates should ideally be able to demonstrate relevant grounds management skills including previous experience in the safe use of grounds maintenance machinery, ride-on and pedestrian mowers, hedge cutters etc. A strong commitment to health & safety is essential. 

Glendale use a web-based works programme for field teams so the ability to use smart phones will be desirable.

Candidates with a full UK drivers licence, PA1/PA6, Lantra Certification, Water Hygiene Cards and/or CSCS cards would be at an advantage. 

What can Glendale offer you?

• Competitive salary
• Generous annual leave
• Free gym membership for you and a nominated person
• Employee health cash plan
• Employee discount portal – discounts on travel bookings, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Company sick pay
• Career progression
• Training and development

Glendale is a well established business that is continuously growing. Successful applicants can look forward to joining a company that can offer career prospects and believes in investing in its people.

How to Apply

If you feel like this is the opportunity for you, we want to hear from you.  Please express your interest and submit your CV to david.buckley@glendale-services.co.uk or call 01392 444 432 and ask for an application form.

If you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as interviews will be held throughout the process. Please note that if you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.