Grounds Maintenance Operative

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Job description

Transform Housing & Support is recruiting a local grounds maintenance operative to join our asset management team to maintain our supported housing property portfolio throughout Surrey and surrounding areas.

Grounds Maintenance Operative Responsibilities:

• Carrying out a varied range of gardening duties, requiring a minimum amount of supervision and use of own initiative.
• Complete all works allocated to the grounds team to expected professional standards.
• Adhere at all times to the instructions and guidelines laid down in the staff handbook, code of conduct and operating procedures.
• Comply with Transform's health and safety policy, safe systems of work, risk assessments and any other procedures or instructions issued from time to time.
• Report to the Maintenance Manager all accidents, incidents and near misses in relation to work being undertaken or any safety issues observed during the course of duties.
• Regularly inspect and maintain all tools and equipment to ensure they are safe to use and fit for purpose.
• Competent operation of a wide range of hand tools, horticultural machinery and powered hand tools, such as lawn mowers, strimmers, hedge cutters etc.
• Order and collect materials from stock or from suppliers and allocate them correctly to repair orders. Ensure authorizations to purchase are obtained where required; and delivery notes and receipts are handed in weekly.

Grounds Maintenance Operative Requirements:

• Ability and experience in undertaking all aspects of grounds maintenance including but not limited to: Hedge Cutting, Lawn mowing, Strimming, Fencing replacement, Grounds clearance, Weed control chemical spraying, Gutter clearance, Paving, Fencing repairs, vehicle and equipment maintenance
• Live within 45 minutes drive of the central Surrey area
• In possession of a full, clean and valid licence to drive manual light commercial vehicles
• Experience of working safely
• Ability to understand schedule of works and able to update works orders, complete time sheets and log materials used.
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety relating to grounds maintenance tasks on residential property.
• Ability to use portable devices and software to receive work orders, update information, send and receive emails and order materials.
• Ability to work at height using ladders, access towers, platforms and scaffolding

About Transform:

Respect, empowerment, responsibility, and excellence. These are our values and they are integral to all that we do to support homeless and vulnerable people to reach their goals and live independent and fulfilling lives. We provide housing and support services to more than 1,700 people in Surrey, West Sussex, Berkshire, South West London. We are a place where our staff make a difference to clients, feel valued and have fun whilst supporting some of society's vulnerable people to achieve their goals.

Location: Surrey and surrounding areas

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Hours: 39 hours per week

Salary: Starting salary £21,000 rising to £22,000 after completion of 6 months' probation+ benefits + 28 days leave + Bank Holidays

Benefits: Competitive

Other stuff you need to know:

At Transform we celebrate diversity and know that it is critical for our success. We work hard to make sure we're inclusive. So, if you are great at what you do and share our values, we want to hear from you.

If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process please let us know. We will be happy to help.

We review CV's when we receive them and interview as soon as we have applications that look like a good match, so apply as soon as you can to avoid missing out.

You may have experience of the following: Maintenance Worker, Maintenance Operative, Caretaker, Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Assistant, Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Manager, Facilities, Grounds Worker, Health & Safety, Estates Management, Facilities Management, etc.

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