Description
Reference: OP3813
No. of Vacancies: 1
Location: Brabyns Park
Salary: £25,584 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Summer- 30 weeks 5 days- 43 hours
Winter- 22 weeks 4 days- 28.8 hours
Contract: Permanent
Are you looking for a new role? We have an exciting opportunity to join our fantastic Parks and Greenspace Team.
There’s never been a better time to join Totally Local Company. We’re looking for a hardworking and flexible Greenspace Operative 2 who will deliver high standards and be an ambassador for the TLC family in our community.
You'll play an integral role in maintaining one of Stockport’s most used and loved parks.
What you will be doing in this role
* You'll drive a range of vehicles with gross vehicle weight up to 7.5 tonnes including tippers, mechanical sweepers, ride on mowers, tractors, small mechanical diggers, platform vehicles, chipping machines etc and be responsible for daily vehicle checks and adjustments, brush maintenance, routine cleaning and defect reporting.
* You'll undertake grounds maintenance and horticultural duties in areas including countryside parks, highway verges, landscaped areas, planted areas, recreation areas and other public amenity areas.
* You'll carry out high quality horticultural operations such as hand weeding, weed spraying, application of pesticides and fertilisers, mowing grass, pruning, hedge cutting and other associated duties.
* You'll perform general cleansing duties such as sweeping, cleaning, litter picking and removal of weeds, debris and ruse. Where required to, remove graffiti and fly posting or other offensive material.
* You'll maintain recreational and sports facilities including markings to specified standards.
What we are looking for
* You'll have experience in delivering grounds maintenance.
* You'll possess knowledge and understanding of horticultural standards, working methods and equipment deployed within Parks and Grounds maintenance.
* You'll adopt a team-working approach at work
* You'll be willing to work flexibly in a changing environment, in line with business demands and needs.
* You'll act professionally at all times when in contact with the public and other customers; you will be responsible for presenting a positive image of both TLC and our clients.
Your Benefits
* 24 days Annual Leave + 8 Bank Holidays.
* Lifestyle Benefits – we provide access to huge discounts on a variety of retailers and services, through our lifestyle benefits website.
* Cycle to Work Scheme – enabling you to get the bike of your choice (between £100 and £1000), with Tax and NI savings of up to 32%.
* NEST Pension Scheme – 6.5% employer contribution if eligible.
* Life Assurance – twice your basic salary
* Keen to progress? - we’re committed to providing you with Continuous Professional Development.
Based in the heart of Stockport, Totally Local Company provides a huge range of services to the public and private sectors across Greater Manchester.
Here’s a flavour of what our team of experts do…
You’ll see us everywhere from school kitchens to parks, playgrounds and even up trees! We’re the ones that fix roads and clean, light and provide signs for your streets. We empty your bins and help to keep your area secure. We clean schools and office spaces (and more), tidy grounds and dispose of waste too.
We are a safety-first organisation – it is at the heart of everything we do. We make sure that you have everything you need before you start your role – that includes sharing the great benefits you will be entitled to as a TLC employee.
Our People
Across Totally Local Company our people do a huge variety of roles, but one of the things that our teams all have in common is we want to do the very best for the community we support.