Job Title: Grounds Maintenance Supervisor
Salary: £31,263 - £33,566
Contract: Permanent
Location: Roundwood Drive, St Helen’s or Brookvale Estate WA8 7QH
Weekly Hours: 40hrs
So…. What is this role exactly?
This is an exciting opportunity for a Grounds Maintenance supervisor based in St Helen’s to work on various Your Housing Group sites across the north west.
As Grounds Maintenance Supervisor, working as part of a small and supportive team, you will use your previous experience to deliver grounds maintenance, landscaping and environmental services to Your Housing Group’s customers, ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety and customer care at all times.
What will my working week look like?
Monday to Friday 8am to 4.30pm. Starting and finishing work at Roundwood Drive.
You will also need to live within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington to attend meetings and training courses when needed.
What will I be responsible for doing?
First and foremost, you will be able to:
- Supervising a team of Ground Maintenance and Environmental Services Operatives and making sure their carry out their duties in a safe manner.
- Organising and planning team task and duties ensuring YHG meet their Service Level Agreements and at a high standard.
- Carrying out site inspections using iAuditor.
- Resolving any enquiries or complaints made by YHG customers or stakeholders.
- Ensuring high levels of customer service.
- Carrying out duties such as grass cutting, pruning, herbicide applications or ad hoc works.
- Good knowledge of grounds maintenance and general health & safety.
- Be a strong team player with solid communication skills.
- Be trained and competent to use and maintain a range of associated powered landscaping tool and equipment.
- Be able to demonstrate using your initiative.
- Hold a full valid UK driving licence.
- Carrying out any other duties in line with the role.
In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.
That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?
In return we offer between £31,263 - £33,566 for a 40-hour week, and 22 days annual leave, plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas & New Year, plus Bank Holidays but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.
On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 4%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through BHSF, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.
And who are Your Housing Group?
Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.
As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by building over 100 new homes a year and continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties, tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. Our Repairs and Maintenance teams play a huge part in delivering these services to our customers.
We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.
As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.
Closing Date: 8th October 2024
We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.
Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview. Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application. YHG1
