Maintenance Assistant in Ashington

Join us as our new Maintenance Assistant, where you’ll help keep our holiday park looking its best and running safely. From general repairs to groundskeeping and landscaping, your hands-on work ensures our guests enjoy fantastic facilities and beautiful outdoor spaces – setting the scene for unforgettable memories.

Responsibilities:

• Carrying out a variety of general maintenance, handyperson, and grounds duties, including mowing and strimming grass, painting, fencing, landscaping, and completing minor repairs.
• Keeping the park’s outdoor areas tidy, safe, and attractive through tasks such as tree and hedge pruning, litter picking, jet washing, and pothole repairs.
• Effectively utilise the job management system to schedule, track, and complete owner jobs and fleet repairs promptly and to a high standard.
• Ensuring flower beds and planted areas are well presented and maintained, including weeding and planting new flowers.
• Changing gas bottles safely and efficiently.
• Ensuring bin bays are always kept clean and tidy.
• Responding to guest enquiries in a friendly and proactive manner, collaborating with the wider park teams to resolve any issues promptly.
• Performing pitch tidies and assisting with the moving and siting of holiday homes.
• Working independently and with integrity, completing assigned maintenance tasks to the highest standard while seeking support from your manager or wider team when needed.

About you:

• Hands-on experience with both groundskeeping and general maintenance work, including garden maintenance, landscaping, and practical repair tasks.
• The ability to perform physical tasks including lifting, bending and standing for extended periods of time.
• Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions.
• Good manual dexterity with the ability to use or learn to use an array of hand tools and power tools.
• The flexibility to be able to work weekends, evenings, and bank holidays as required.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Benefits:

• The chance to develop your skills and boost your career across our 65 parks – we’ve got your back when it comes to training!
• Employee Assistance Programme with a 24/7 confidential helpline for counselling and support.
• 50% discount for you and a 25% discount for friends and family when booking your holiday with us.
• 30% team member discount on everything from fabulous food to delicious drinks and even our fun leisure activities.
• Deals on a range of brands such as Hello Fresh, local gyms, and more.

We want to be a force for good and caring for our parks, people, and planet is a natural component of the way we do business. We celebrate our people, communities and natural environment, enabling us to enhance the amazing memories we create for many years to come. Be the Heart of the Park.

Parkdean Resorts takes safeguarding seriously therefore background checks including DBS (or equivalent) will be carried out if appropriate. We want to do all we can to create an environment and recruitment process where people feel safe and comfortable to talk about disability. For any reasonable adjustment requests as part of the recruitment and assessment process, please contact Holly.