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ob Title:Vegetation Management Operative
Location: Oxfordshire - Area 5
Salary:Hourly rate is dependent on qualifications and experience and will be discussed at interview.
You will be required to work 40 hours per week consisting of day or night work with occasional weekend work included.
As a valued member of the Chevron Green Services team, you can expect the benefits that come with being an employer of choice:
Benefits:
- 20 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Regular work with guaranteed 40 hrs per week
- Weekly pay
- Company pension
- PPE and/or uniform provided free
- Career development
- Access to our Internal Academy
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Fill Your Boots rewards- saving an average of £400 per year
- Paternity leave - paid at full salary for 2 weeks *after qualifying 2 year period
- Maternity leave - paid at full salary for 3 months and ½ salary for a further 3 months *after qualifying 2 year period
- Life Assurance
About the role of Vegetation Management Operative
Chevron Green Services (CGS) is a growing business, and we look to recruit excellent staff at all levels. In return we offer a highly rewarding career in a friendly and professional team. As a CGS Vegetation Management Operative you will be supported to achieve your potential and focus on the main responsibilities of your role. Our teams thrive on collaboration, working with respect, honesty, and integrity.
This role is exciting and will be varied throughout the year, depending on the season.
We'd love for you to be a part of our team.
Responsibilities include:
- Cyclical grass cutting between March and October
- Grass cutting via the use of tractors with front and side arm flails, remote control bank mowers, ride on mowers, specialist machinery such as reforms and barrier mowers, and of course brush cutters
- Weed control
- Tree and hedge work, whether that be hazardous tree removal, sign and CCTV clearance and hedgerow maintenance or reduction outside of bird nesting season
- Path clearance
- Planting schemes including complete de-vegetation of ditches or other infrastructures
- Complete de vegetation for new structures and roads
- Jet washing
- Other ad-hoc tasks that helps our clients.
Vegetation Management Operatives will work in a team under the guidance of a working supervisor to help deliver all contractual obligations to an exceptional standard.
What good looks like for a Vegetation Management Operative
- You doNOTneed to be experienced in highways or Vegetation Management works, although it would be beneficial
- We would like you to have a basic understanding of health & safety
- Physically able and the ability to pass or already hold a Safety Critical Medical
- Full UK driving license with less than 6 points
- Enthusiastic 'can-do' attitude
Beneficial qualifications / certificates, any of the below or their equivalent (training will be provided for the right candidates):
- CSCS
- ROLO
- Lantra Tractor Driving
- Lantra Arm Mounted Cutting Equipment / Flail
- Lantra Brush Cutter / Strimmer
- NPTC Pesticides PA1 & PA6A
- NPTC Chainsaw CS30, CS31a, CS31b, CS38 & CS39
- NPTC Chainsaw from a MEWP CS47
- NPTC Brushwood Chippers
- IPAF - MEWPS
If you want to join a winning team and be part of an innovative organisation which is focussed on company growth and employee progression, please click on the apply button today.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AT CHEVRON GREEN SERVICES
We believe the skills, capabilities and talents of our people are the key to our success. We benefit enormously from the diversity and variety of our workforce and are fully committed to maintaining and encouraging this diversity.
The richer the mix of people, skills, and cultures; the greater the range of inputs, viewpoints, and experiences. Because of this, CGS is fully committed to being an equal opportunities employer, defined by its diversity and opposition to all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.
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