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Anglian Water Services • Sheffield | Barnsley | United Kingdom

Field Maintenance Technician - AVH Parks

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  £31,000 per annum
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Job Description

Field Maintenance Technician (AVH Parks)

Salary: Circa £31,000 annual

Full-time,

37 hours per week/permanent

Location: Based at AWinning Nottinghamshire

Shape the places people love to visit

Imagine spending your working day outdoors, surrounded by nature and fantastic scenery.

At AVH Parks, you'll play a vital role in maintaining and enhancing essential operational infrastructure, you'll help ensure this environment remains safe, accessible and thriving.

This is more than grounds maintenance. It's an opportunity to care for a unique setting where wildlife and water management come together. Every day brings something different, whether you're maintaining managing trees, grassland or reed beds, operating specialist equipment or helping protect valuable environmental habitats.

If you enjoy practical outdoor work, take pride in high standards and want a role where you can see the impact of your efforts, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

As a Field Maintenance Technician, you'll be responsible for maintaining our sites to the highest standards while supporting a safe environment for colleagues and stakeholders. You'll:

  • Deliver planned grounds maintenance programmes across parks and operational sites.

  • Maintain reed beds, waterways and surrounding habitats.

  • Operate a variety of grounds maintenance machinery and equipment.

  • Carry out seasonal maintenance activities to keep sites looking their best year-round.

  • Collect water quality samples and support environmental monitoring activities.

  • Assist with inspections, audits and compliance activities.

  • Work collaboratively with colleagues, landowners, business partners and local stakeholders.

  • Help maintain site assets, infrastructure and access routes.

  • Champion health, safety and environmental best practice.

The role includes travel across sites and occasional overnight stays away from home.

What you'll bring

Essential

  • Experience in grounds maintenance or associated asset maintenance activities.

  • Experience using horticultural or agricultural plant and machinery.

  • Experience using hand-held equipment such as strimmer’s, hedge cutters or brush cutters.

  • Full UK driving licence.

  • Trailer towing entitlement.

  • Strong communication and organisational skills.

  • Good attention to detail and time management skills.

  • A positive attitude and ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Join us

If you're looking for a role where you can work outdoors, contribute to the success of an essential working project and help protect a unique natural environment for future generations, we'd love to hear from you.

Come and help us make every visit to our sites a safe one.

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Working at Anglian Water Services

Hybrid

A little flex time – depending on the team

Company benefits

25-30 days annual leave + bank holidays
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bank holiday swaps
Bike parking – Secure bike parks at main offices
Buy or sell annual leave – 5 days (pro rata'd if part time)
Car allowance
Cinema discounts
Coaching
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
Company car
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance – Personal Accident cover - providing a lump sum in the case of an accident leading to injury, death or disablement at any time, whether you are on company business or not
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – 2 schemes available
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Employee recognition scheme
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay
Enhanced pension match/contribution – Double the contribution you make up to 7% - you pay in 7%, we pay in 14%
Enhanced sick pay
Eye Care Support – Free eye tests for visual display unit (VDU) users, along with free/discounts on glasses
Faith rooms
Family health insurance – Discounted family health insurance. Available to select annually.
Fertility treatment leave
Further education support
Gym membership – Discounted gym membership
Hackathons
Health assessment
Health cash plan
Health insurance – Private Healthcare scheme including cover for pre-existing conditions
In house training
Income protection – Should you be unwell and unable to work for a period of time, the Income Replacement scheme may provide you with income for two years combined with sickness absence
Interest free loans
Learning platform
Life assurance
Life insurance – 8 times your basic annual salary
Loyalty programme – Awards for long service, along with increase in annual leave allowance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mental health support
Mentoring – including reverse mentoring and family leave returners
Neonatal leave
On-site catering
On-site shower
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave – 5 days paid
Physiotherapy
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Private GP service – 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments for you and your household
Professional subscriptions
Religious celebration leave
Reservist leave
Sabbaticals
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Shared parental leave – 26 weeks full pay
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Volunteer days

Awards & Accreditations

2nd - Best Employee Wellbeing

2nd - Best Employee Wellbeing

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