Job Introduction
Landmarc Support Services are currently seeking to recruit a Grounds Maintenance Site Operative at Westdown camp, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
This role will include to Knook camp & Rollestone camp.
As the Site Operative you will be responsible for carrying out Grounds maintenance on the estate. You will be part of small but dedicated team that takes enormous pride in what they do. No experience required, just a good attitude and willingness to learn.
The role is Monday to Friday, based over 37 hours per week.
Hours of work - 37 per week
Days of work - Mon- Fri
Contract - Permanent
Main Responsibility
Operate ride-on mowers and compact tractor to maintain grass areas on three military camps
Use pedestrian mowers and push mowers for precise trimming
Operate strimmers for detailed edging, boundaries and trimming
Operate hedge cutters to cut camp hedgerows.
Perform general grounds maintenance tasks, including manual and chemical weeding, path edging, road sweeping, leaf collection, and pruning trees and shrubs.
Vehicle driving and trailer towing.
Ensure all equipment is used safely and maintained properly
Adhere to Health & Safety regulations and safe systems of work
Maintain records of tasks completed and report any issues
The Ideal Candidate
Applicants must hold valid UK driving licence and have means of transport due to rural location of site
Ride-on mower qualification
Pedestrian mower qualification
Strimmer qualification
Hedge cutter qualification
Desirable -
Pesticide spraying qualification
Compact tractor qualification
ATV operation.
Experience towing trailers
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.