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Rural Operative

Job Introduction

Landmarc Support Services are currently seeking to recruit a Rural Operative at Kirkcudbright Training Camp in Scotland.

As a Rural Operative you will play a key part in helping to maintain a safe, efficient and sustainable place for our Armed Forces to train, this pivotal role is essential to the delivery of the contract.

We are looking for someone who either has previous knowledge of working on the Defence Training estate or someone who is keen to learn new skills and bring an enthusiastic willingness to learn, Landmarc will provide full training for the successful applicant.

Shifts Run between: 07:00 & 18:00

Days of work: Monday to Sunday

Contract: Permanent, Variable Days

Annual Allowances: Variable Day allowance £1,127.50

Main Responsibility

To ensure that the training estate facilities and ranges are fit for purpose and ensure compliance with customer requirements

Preventative and Reactive maintenance tasks on training area, rural & built estate 

Rural maintenance such as fencing, mowing and strimming

Forestry work such as removal of fallen trees – training will be provided, cleaning / maintaining culverts, maintenance of tracks and sight lines on the training area.

Preparing training areas for use

Grounds maintenance

Operation and maintenance of plant and equipment (training will be provided)

Manufacturing and deploying targetry

Driving and operating fleet vehicles

Use of Warning systems including training control offices, flags and lights

Report and deal with unauthorised persons on the Training Area Estate

Handover / take back of facilities and or ranges with service users

Utilise secondary skills in grounds maintenance, chainsaw operation, brush cutting, and herbicide application.

Perform additional tasks as needed to support the team and the estate.

To complete all relevant documentation utilising both IT and paper based systems

The Ideal Candidate

Knowledge of Health and Safety such as COSHH, manual handling, risk assessments and safe systems of work

Knowledge of landscape maintenance and forestry skills

Excellent of communicating with customers

Basic labouring, caretaking skills

Ability to complete documentation

Basic IT skills

Must hold a Full Manual Valid UK driving licence (essential)

 

 

Package Description

Landmarc will provide you with a competitive salary; in addition to this, we also offer the following main benefits, amongst many others:

Pension

Landmarc offers all employees an opportunity to join our company stakeholder pension scheme, whereby the company will contribute up to 8% of the employee’s salary.

Holiday

Employees are entitled to 25 days’ pro rata during each year of employment plus public holidays. Three extra discretionary days added to our annual leave allowances at Christmas.

Annual leave allowance will increase in recognition of your continued service.

Holiday purchase – purchase up to 10 more days’ holiday to use throughout the year.

Other benefits

Edenred – employee savings scheme

Annual salary review, in consultation with the recognised Trade Unions

Life assurance insured for three times your annual salary, to help the loved ones

Reimbursement of professional fees and on-going training

Health Cash Plan – All employees can join. You can also add up to four children under the age of 24 to your policy

Family friendly policy

Sick pay - After 6 months of service 

 

* Application updates may be sent to you via email, please ensure you check your emails regularly. Please note some emails may arrive in your junk mail folder.

 

 

About the Company

Landmarc provides the support services that enable Armed Forces from around the world to prepare for frontline military operations across the UK Defence Training Estate (DTE). This includes maintaining and delivering safe and sustainable infrastructure, managing and operating training areas and ranges and delivering multi-million pound projects to improve vital training assets.

By joining Landmarc you will be supporting our vision to provide the best training experience we can for our Armed Forces. We are the first and only Special Purpose Vehicle to be contracted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) as their Industry Partner on the UK Defence Training Estate and the only company that is solely dedicated to the UK DTE, delivering essential support services since 2003.

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