At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain stunning canals and green spaces while working outdoors.
- Company: Join Mitie, the UK's leading facilities management company.
- Benefits: Flexible benefits, virtual GP, discounts, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive recruitment process and recognition awards for hard work.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on nature and community wellbeing.
- Qualifications: Passion for outdoor work and a full UK driving licence required.
The predicted salary is between 25785 - 31515 £ per year.
Better places, thriving communities.
- Hourly Rate of Pay: £13.10
- Position Type: Permanent
- Total Weekly Contractual Hours: 40 hours
- Requirement: Full UK Driving License
Mitie Landscapes has an exciting opportunity for a Grounds Maintenance Operator to join our team at the UKs market leading FM company.
Reporting to the Contracts Manager, you will be supporting them in ensuring your team deliver the exceptional every day.
You will be working in partnership with Canal & River Trust is the UK's largest canal charity, who care for a 2,000-mile network of stunning canals and navigable rivers.
Connecting many of the UK's urban and rural areas, we provide essential spaces for wildlife and people, helping us all feel happier and healthier.
The 250-year-old waterways in our care – the canals, embankments, culverts and reservoirs as well as the bridges, locks and towpaths – and their vital ecosystems are threatened by the growing impact of climate change and more extreme weather.
They need constant upkeep and investment.
Without it, they face decline and closure, and we risk losing the incredible benefits they bring.
Together, with your active support, we can keep canals alive. Join us and protect waterways for nature to thrive and everyone to enjoy. Today and in the future
You will be responsible for.
- Maintaining the Canal network including grass cutting & hedge cutting,
- Providing management with relevant information and reporting as required, including reporting any site hazards.
- Operating all vehicles, machinery and equipment in accordance with Health & Safety procedures.
- Undertaking training as and when required.
- What We Are Looking For
- A passion for working outdoors.
- Prepared to work in an agile and flexible working
- A good understanding of smartphone technology.
- Grounds Maintenance experience
- Full driving licence
Benefits
- Our market-leading flexible benefits scheme provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household.
- So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.
- We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme.
- For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee.
- Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
- When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible benefits platform, Choices.
- This gives you the chance to customise your benefits to best suit your lifestyle.
- You can choose from dental insurance, dining cards, coffee clubs, buying technology products at an affordable cost and much more!
- We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our Mi Deals platform.
- And we have a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover is the greater of your equivalent annual salary or a minimum of £10,000 - giving peace of mind for your dependants.
- We also offer a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
- We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work.
- There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
- Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people.
- Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us.
- We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.
If you have a disability or long‑term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally.
We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
Join our Mitie Team.
Together our diversity makes us stronger.
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