Environmental Operative Level 2 – Grounds Maintenance
Tameside
Full Time
Permanent
Expires 04/09/2025
About the Role
Contract Type: Permanent
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role:
Operations and Greenspace are responsible for delivering front-line services such as street cleansing, grounds maintenance, arboriculture, countryside, and playground services. We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and well-organized individual to join a small reactive team within the grounds maintenance department.
About You:
The successful candidate will perform duties including maintenance of shrubberies, bowling greens, graffiti removal, chemical spraying, and other related tasks. The role involves regular use of powered mechanical equipment such as mowers, strimmers, and hedge cutters.
About Us:
Come shape the future of Tameside with us!
Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council:
“Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I’ve been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team making a real difference in our borough.
Our Place Directorate shapes Tameside, covering planning, highways, parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. We focus on keeping streets clean, enhancing green spaces, and driving regeneration projects like Ashton Old Baths, master plans for Stalybridge and Hyde town centres, Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Green Garden Village, creating new homes, jobs, and commercial spaces.
Our goal is to ensure core services are modern, efficient, and support thriving communities while safeguarding our heritage.
We seek passionate individuals to join us in driving change, improving services, and shaping Tameside’s future. Join us and help build a better Tameside!”
At Tameside, we are dedicated to enabling all citizens to live long, healthy lives, supporting economic growth, providing quality health and care, protecting vulnerable populations, and fostering strong, supportive communities.
Our success relies on our people, who embody our values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Valuing Diversity, and Engagement. We prioritize our employees’ skills, wellbeing, and motivation. Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship.
We promote a culture of respect and inclusivity, and are an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable adjustments will be considered under the Equality Act 2010.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here.
For more information, contact Paul Eccles (Operations Supervisor) at 0161 342 3301.
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