Environmental Services Operative in Manchester

Environmental Services Operative, Manchester.

Onward seeks a full-time operative to maintain the cleanliness and presentation of neighbourhoods, ensuring communal spaces meet high standards.

The role involves waste removal, grounds upkeep, and reporting defects, requiring practical skills and a proactive approach.

Working outdoors across the city, you will support local communities through visible, reliable service.

This permanent position offers £26,100 annually, plus 32 days of leave, bank holidays, and a pension with matched contributions up to 10%.

Additional benefits include a health cash plan, savings access, and flexible policies.

Prior experience is useful, though full training is provided for those with a strong work ethic and attention to detail.

• What you can expect from us
• We offer a competitive salary of £26,100 per annum.
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays for a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
• Stream - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
• Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme.
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

About the role

The purpose of the role is to be operate as part of a multi-disciplinary mobile team to provide a professional and customer focused environmental, health & safety and quality cleaning service for the Brunswick PFI neighbourhood.

Responsibilities

• Cleaning: Ensure the tidy appearance of neighbourhoods, including gated alleyways, by removing rubbish from fly tipping incidents, removing ‘spot’ graffiti, litter picking, removing ‘sharps’/ hazardous material and spot cleaning.
• Deliver excellent cleanliness in schemes / communal areas by cleaning to agreed PFI standards / schedules.

• Scheme Maintenance: Undertake scheme maintenance duties including

• Jet washing of communal areas – hard landscaping and external walkways
• Minor joinery works e. g. fitting noticeboards and signs
• Cleaning light fittings in communal areas
• Winter gritting services
• Assisting in horticultural planting schemes
• Customer

Assurance: Be visible in the Brunswick neighbourhood, offering assurance to customers by checking security, reporting defects in communal areas, taking action or reporting back as needed on a daily basis and also at weekends on a rotational basis.

• Promote a safe environment by regularly testing lift alarms and reporting issues as necessary.
• Ensure necessary management of communal paladin bins, ensuring timely rotation and regular clearing of communal waste chutes, and ongoing good communication with the Council’s waste collection partner.
• Support community activities and events by assisting in organising events and by participating.
• Embed and maintain excellent working relationships with residents.
• Work collaboratively with all relevant people, including S4B partners and Brunswick stakeholders, to deliver excellent customer service.

Skills / Experience

• Essential: Experience of working in a customer facing role.
• Essential: Experience of working in a team.
• Essential: Ability to communicate effectively with customers, colleagues and external organisations.
• Essential: Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities.
• Essential: Professional and flexible approach.
• Essential: Ability to prioritise workload, manage time and meet deadlines / hit targets.
• Desirable: Knowledge of the Housing sector.

Qualifications

• Essential: Educated to GCSE standard.
• Essential: Full UK driving licence.
• Desirable: A recognised certificate in Work Equipment to include: Leaf Blower, Pressure Washer, Buffer Machines.
• About The Organisation
• Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.
• We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year.
• We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.
• In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
• We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve.
• We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.
• Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
• At Onward Homes, your application will be reviewed by a human who carefully considers your CV, skills, knowledge and experience as part of our recruitment process.
• We do not use AI to make hiring decisions.
• If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on Human Resources Team@onward. co. uk and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.
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