Grounds Maintenance Operative
Broxbourne, Hertfordshire

About Us

We're B3Living, a social business that helps people who are priced out of the housing market to find a home.

Our mission is to make a sustainable, positive change to the housing crisis for our customers and communities.

You'll find us working in Broxbourne and across southeast Hertfordshire, where we have 5,000 homes supporting more than 12,000 people.

We are now looking for a Grounds Maintenance Operative to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of £21,262 - £23,559 per annum
- 27 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell holiday scheme
- Cross organisational bonus scheme
- Up to 12% pension contribution
- Life assurance cover
- Funded health cash plan or subsidised private health insurance
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Enhanced family leave
- Range of special leave arrangements
- Car loans, cycle to work and electric lease car scheme

This is a superb opportunity for a customer focused grounds maintenance professional to join our growing, essential organisation.

You’ll have the chance to develop your skill set within a welcoming team who will support you in developing your career as it grows to new heights!

We also know how vital it is to have quality time away from work. That’s why we’ll equip you with a buy and sell holiday scheme, enhanced family leave and a range of transportation schemes so you can create the work/life balance that’s right for you!

The Role

As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you will support grounds maintenance work, ensuring our estates are well-kept.

You will cut hedges and grass using a variety of equipment, maintain shrubs and herbaceous borders and carry out landscaping and other improvement works. These may include ground preparation, turfing, seeding and shrub and tree planting.

Ensuring all sites are clean and tidy, you will also collect and remove green waste, carry out a weed control programme and report any incidents to your line manager.

About You

To be considered as a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you will need:

- Experience in a grounds maintenance or similar role
- Experience in a customer focused role
- The ability to use hedge cutting, strimming, grass cutting, weed spraying and grounds equipment
- Good communication skills
- A full, valid driving licence

Please note, this role will require a basic criminal record (DBS) check.

The closing date for this role is 16th August 2023.

Other organisations may call this role Gardener, Estate Maintenance Operative, Grounds Maintenance Operative, Groundskeeper, Caretaker, or Grounds Person.

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means that we offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

All our vacancies are open to flexible working arrangements, something we are really proud of. We believe in the benefits of a diverse workforce and strongly welcome applications from those currently under-represented in the organisation, including LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual), people with disabilities and people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

So, if you’re looking for a new opportunity to grow as a Grounds Maintenance Operative, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.