Estates Operative -Cleaning/Grounds Maintenance

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

To provide high quality grounds maintenance and cleaning service and associated estates services for Orbit estates and properties.

This role is part of Property where you'll help us to lead the way investing and maintaining 46,000 homes.

What you'll achieve

[Job description]

• Responsible for maintaining landscaped and communal areas to a high standard, including grass cutting, hedge cutting, shrub pruning, weed control maintaining of borders and litter picking
• Ensuring that estates are kept in accordance with Orbit standards and in a clean and tidy condition, with all garden waste materials and litter removed from site and appropriately disposed of
• Ensure that customers are satisfied with the services delivered across your areas of responsibility, communicating and signposting customers to appropriate service for other queries
• Responsible for carrying out or arranging routine maintenance of gardening equipment. Ensuring that tools, equipment and personal protective equipment are kept to an acceptable standard and inventory kept and up to date
• To be responsible for providing a high standard cleaning service to communal areas in blocks including lifts, stairwells, floors, walls, and windows. To maintain clear, tidy and safe refuse areas such as bin stores, chute rooms and hoppers, following specific cleaning specifications and standards
• To be accountable for ensuring personal protective equipment and machinery is used & maintained in a safe manner, and reporting any faults or defects, near misses, incidents, or accidents to Senior Operative
• To be accountable for ensuring that stocks of hazardous and inflammable liquids are stored appropriately and conforms to COSHH and fire regulations
• To comply with all health and safety requirements and safe working practices outlined in estates team risk assessments/method statements and Orbit policies and procedures

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Must hold a current full UK driving licence and be willing to drive the association’s vehicles, including vans and tipper transits
• Must have the capability to operate machinery/tipper vans and equipment such as petrol blowers, floor cleaning apparatus
• Experience of working in a similar or related environment or post and the use of appropriate plant and machinery
• Understanding of health and safety requirements and safe working practices
• Must be able to fulfil the physical requirements of a manual post
• Must have the ability and willingness to work internally and externally during all seasons

Desirable skills

• PA1 and PA6 spraying certificate
• Ability to tow a trailer
• City and Guilds NVQ in estates maintenance
• NVQ qualification, or equivalent, in either cleaning or Environmental Services, or be willing to undertake and qualify for such within probationary period

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.