Grounds Maintenance Operative

We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!
We’re recruiting for a Ground Maintenance Operative to join our fun, customer focused team. Love working in the great outdoors? This role could be perfect for you! Contractually based out of Basingstoke, you’ll cover the surrounding area. This is a full time, permanent role, working 39 hours per week.

Want to know what we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• Use of a company van and fuel card in work hours only
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• Uniform and PPE provided
• Use of power tools (supplied by us, if needed for certain jobs)
• A generous contributory pension
• Private medical insurance
• Electric car scheme
• Discounts portal to save money on various products and services, including holidays, shopping and cinema

Here’s the facts about the role:
As a Grounds Maintenance Operative, you'll carry out a high standard of grounds work. This’ll include grass/hedge cutting, border maintenance and weeding to make our communal grounds areas more attractive for our customers!

You’ll need to have good knowledge and experience in this field of work. And have the skills to operate a variety of equipment, machines and materials that you'll use on a daily basis.

We do our best to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible. However, due to the nature of this position, the job holder must be capable of:

• Working at heights
• Manual handling and lifting heavy and bulky items
• A high degree of mobility, which will include walking/lifting/loading and unloading vehicles

A full, clean current driving licence (held for at least 1 year) is needed so you can drive one of our vans when necessary. Offers are subject to satisfactory driving licence checks and DBS check.

We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.

Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.

We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built around 1,400 last year.

This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.