Job Introduction
Landmarc Support Services are currently seeking to recruit a Maintenance Operative to join our team at Barton Road Rifle Range in Cambridge. In this role, you'll help create and maintain a safe, efficient, and sustainable training environment for the Armed Forces.
Whether you're looking to balance other commitments or earn extra income, with shifts typically falling in late evenings or early mornings, this position is ideal if you're seeking flexibility. Full training will be provided.
Variable Hours Contract: As a Variable Hours member of staff, you will be guaranteed a minimum of 8 hours a month
Shift pattern: Variable Shift Basis from Monday to Sunday – rotas provided monthly
Location: Barton Road Rifle Range, Barton Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 7AT
Main Responsibility
- Ensure training areas and facilities meet the necessary standards for use
- Prepare and maintain training areas and ranges, including preventative and grounds maintenance tasks
- Operate and maintain plant and equipment (training provided)
- Drive and operate fleet vehicles
- Use training control systems, including warning systems like control offices, flags, and lights.
- Manage unauthorised access to training areas and report incidents
- Oversee the handover and return of facilities
- Use both IT and paper based systems to complete any relevant documentation
- Carry out any other additional requirements as needed
The Ideal Candidate
- Knowledge of Health & Safety such as COSHH, manual handling, risk assessments and safe systems of work
- Strong communication skills
- Basic skills in caretaking, labouring, and maintenance
- Competency in completing relevant paperwork
- Basic IT skills
- A full UK driving licence is essential for driving and operating fleet vehicles
*This role is otherwise known as 'Training Area Operative' at Landmarc
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.