Grounds Maintenance Operative

Are you passionate about outdoor work and making a visible difference in your community? Do you take pride in high standards and enjoy leading by example? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

As a Grounds Operative, you will play an important role in keeping our neighbourhoods looking their best. You'll deliver a high-quality grounds maintenance services across our estates, ensuring that our open spaces are safe, tidy, and attractive places for our customers and communities to enjoy. Working as part of our Estates team, you will maintain a variety of outdoor spaces to a professional standard, taking pride in your work and representing LiveWest's values every day. You will help to keep our communities looking great, while ensuring that health and safety standards are upheld at all times.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out general grounds maintenance, including grass cutting, hedge trimming, weeding, leaf clearance, and shrub bed maintenance to a professional standard.
• Operate and maintain horticultural machinery safely and correctly, including mowers, brushcutters, hedge cutters and blowers.
• Undertake inspections of communal areas, proactively reporting issues such as defects, fly-tipping, vandalism, or health and safety concerns.
• Maintain tools and equipment in safe working order, and report faults or damage promptly.
• Follow LiveWest's health and safety procedures at all times, promoting a safe working culture.
• Engage positively with customers, responding politely to queries and referring issues, where appropriate.
• Record completed work accurately, using handheld digital technology.
• Support the wider Estates team with seasonal and emergency tasks, such as gritting or reactive response work.

Why Join LiveWest:

At LiveWest, we believe in creating better places to live, work, and grow.

As a Grounds Operative, you'll be part of a team that makes a real difference to the look and feel of our communities. You'll take pride in keeping our outdoor space clean, green, and welcoming for our customers, and you'll receive the training, tools, and support you need to do your best work. If you enjoy working outdoors, take pride in high standards, and want to be part of a supportive team that values your contribution, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

This role is being offered on a full time basis working 40 hours per week. This is a mobile role, working predominantly in the Yeovil area. You will ideally be based within a 30 minute commute of these areas.

Although this van does not come with an individually assigned company van, you will be required to drive a shared van as part of a van share arrangement. Therefore a full, UK, manual driving licence is essential.

DBS Statement:

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups. Appointment to this role is subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check.