Grounds Maintenance Operative

As a Grounds Maintenance Operative within the Estates Delivery Team in UK Defence Operations, you will provide support by delivering planned or requested activities to effectively deliver a high quality grounds operations service. Day-to-day, you will:

• Deliver grounds maintenance services, identifying areas for improvement, additional demand and to ensure key first and last impressions on the site are maintained
• Deliver specialist grounds services; including attention to pest & tree hazards
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of grounds, land legislative standards and technical requirements
• Form part of the on-call rota during periods of inclement weather; supporting site preparations & response to enable ongoing safe access and use of premises
• Ensure robust application of health, safety & environmental procedures & processes
• Oversee the conduct of contractors on site; monitoring the implementation & performance of tasks allocated
This role is a full-time position based at our Shoeburyness site 5 days a week.


• Previous experience in Grounds Maintenance
• Experience using strimmers, ride-on mowers and/or tractors
• Ability to safely deploy equipment/processes
• Manual Handling awareness /risk appreciation
Qualifications for the Grounds Maintenance Operative:
• Full driving licence
• Appropriate Plant LANTRA or C&G Qualification
  
  Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Grounds Maintenance Operative where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry's most brilliant minds., As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. About QinetiQ As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role. Security Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.


• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.