StreetCare Lead Operative - Grounds na South Gloucestershire Council
South Gloucestershire Council · Yate, Reino Unido · Onsite
- Professional
- Escritório em Yate
As a Lead Operative working within a front-line team, you will deliver grounds services for the parish and town councils. It will be your job to effectively co-ordinate the work through planning and leadership in order to efficiently complete tasks in a timely manner.
- You will operate specialist equipment such as strimmer’s, hedge cutters, hand blowers, pole saw and other power tools, to a high standard ensuring that safety procedures are followed and reporting faults and breakdowns as part of routine checks of equipment.
- Checking work is completed to the required standards, you will provide support, advice, and allocate daily tasks to a small group of staff ensuring they have clear instructions.
- Working within the approved risk assessment framework, you will ensure the safety of yourself and colleagues reporting any issues of concern.
- We require you to communicate with customers and give good, accurate advice and information and make sure that documents and records are accurate, up to date and accessible.
- It is essential that you hold a driving licence and CPC to category C1E with no restrictions and it is desirable for you to hold a street works qualification.
- You will have some experience of using small grounds tools, strimmers, hedge cutters, hand blowers, and have a general understanding of maintenance tasks such as repairing fences, fixing signs and removing graffiti.
- Previous experience with leading a team and planning a work schedule would be preferred.
- We require you to be able to interpret and follow health and safety advice and regulations through written instruction, risk assessments, verbal advice, and toolbox talks.
- You will have working experience of face-to-face contact with the public, giving a high standard of customer care.
- We require you to have a good level of literacy and able to interpret information, instructions, maps and specifications from paper or on a handheld device.
Interviews will be held week commencing 6th October 2025.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
- As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave , employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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