Environmental Maintenance Operative Level 2 - Grounds Maintenance

Operations and Greenspace are responsible for the delivery of a number of important front-line functions relating to street cleansing, grounds maintenance, arboriculture, countryside and playground services. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and well organised individual to form part of a small reactive team within the grounds maintenance function.

The nature of the post involves working annualised hours, currently being 41.3 hours a week through the Spring and Summer months and 28 hours a week through the Autumn and Winter.

About You

The successful candidate will carry out a range of duties including maintenance of shrubberies, bowling greens, graffiti removal, chemical spraying and other associated duties. Such work will involve regular use of powered mechanical equipment, such as mowers, strimmers, hedge cutters etc.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.