Grounds Maintenance Operative - Yate

As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you will be part of a vital front-line team, helping to ensure public spaces such as parks, highways, cemeteries and conservation areas are maintained.

In this varied role, you will undertake maintenance work including grass cutting, shrub maintenance, litter picking, trimming and reducing hedges and maintaining beds throughout South Gloucestershire. It will be your responsibility to carry out routine maintenance operations, including heavy cutbacks in public parks, open spaces, roadside verges and woodland areas.

As you will be using commercial powered hand tools such as brush cutters, powered pruners, long reach pruners and pedestrian mowers, you must ensure that you are adhering to safe methods of work and relevant health and safety regulations. It will be key for you to assist with maintenance duties and horticultural operations in minor landscaping works such as the planting of bedding, shrubs and trees. When required, you will conduct routine maintenance of the council’s cycle route network using powered hand tools or mechanical equipment and assist in the collection of fly-tipping waste.

We require you to have demonstrable experience working in a gardening or grounds role and be able to operate commercial professional grounds equipment such as strimmers, hedge trimmers and leaf blowers. As you will be travelling throughout the authority and surrounding area, it is essential that you have a full, valid UK driving licence, preferably with experience of driving a long wheelbase transit style tipper. You must be able to follow instructions, read maps, and complete records accurately. You will have a strong understanding of health and safety and the risks and hazards associated with the role.

Your uniform and equipment will be provided. Depending on duties, weekend work may be involved, for which the appropriate enhancement will be paid. Interviews to be held week 27th April 2026.

As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here. We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We’re planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses. We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained. We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference. We’re making a difference, be part of it!